With the recent banning of Gitaxian Probe and Deathrite Shaman people have been moving away from Grixis Delver for the more traditional version of RUG Delver. RUG Delver is a tempo deck that tries to use all of its resources to keep the opponent from gaining traction to set up their game plan, ...
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Bryant Cook providing an update on his list after his SCG: Open Series win.
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B&R Announcement Announcement Date: July 2, 2018Legacy: Deathrite Shaman and Gitaxian Probe are bannedEffective Date: July 6, 2018Magic Online Effective Date: July 5, 2018The list of all banned and restricted cards, by format, is here. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! While the bane of the Legacy ...
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…and to think on Wednesday afternoon I was telling Jerry Mee (host of Leaving A Legacy) I wasn’t sure If I wanted to go. I had just checked how long it would take me to get to Acton, MA from Syracuse, NY. In the northeast there’s really only two seasons – winter & ...
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Welcome back to the Infernal Tutoring series! After a fair amount of testing, we decided that (v4.2) is the list we still want to be playing, at least for the time being. If you haven’t, I highly recommend checking out Bryant’s article The Importance of Confidence, as it goes into ...
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Reading the Ropes! In this article, we are going to cover the basics of getting the most mileage out of your draw spells. Knowing how to effectively use your draw spells can seem marginal, but over a large sample size can really increase your win percentage. ...
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Death’s Shadow the card has existed for a long time, but never really saw much play until the past couple of years. It’s really been a staple of the Modern format over the past 2-3 years, but recently it’s been picking up in legacy. Because it’s a fairly newer deck in ...
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Moon Stompy Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep Most people correctly answered that this hand is a keep and that’s great. However, about half of these individuals missed a crucial line. With your first Gitaxian Probe if you hit a blue-producing land, ...
Read More Since Grand Prix Seattle, we have been testing new lists to see if any of them are an improvement over V4.2. This led to the creation of V4.4, which has more or less been an alternative to V4.2 if anything. I don’t believe either one of the deck lists is strictly better than the other....
Read More Maverick is a green white based deck that combines elements of aggression while being able to attack the opponent’s strategy. The draw to this deck is the flexibility in the deck list, being able to play cards like Green Sun’s Zenith along with silver bullets. This allows Maverick ...
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Confidence is important. It sounds a bit silly, right? But I’m a firm believer in that it’s a critical part of the game that doesn’t get enough conversation. While the majority of this article will loosely be storm-based, I think there’s something everyone can take away ...
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Special thanks to Jonathan Sukenik for his contributions to today’s article.Grixis Delver has been hailed as the boogeyman of Legacy and been a primary driver of the recent calls to ban Deathrite Shaman. Whether or not you agree that it’s the best deck in the format, it’s ...
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