For the last few large events I’ve gone to (mainly Star City Games events), I’ve been avoiding my classic Tendrils of Agony playmat for two reasons. The first reason being that it directly telegraphs what I’m playing for those who don’t know. Although, I’ll admit, ...
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Not much has changed about The EPIC Storm since our last Infernal Tutoring in November. We have been experimenting with a third copy of Abrupt Decay, however, since the control decks of the format are leaning on Damping Sphere as cross-hate for Storm combo as well as Cloudpost-based ramp decks. ...
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Legacy recently had one of the most monumental shifts in the format: the bannings of Dreadhorde Arcanist, Oko, Thief of Crowns, and Arcum’s Astrolabe. The two weeks since this banning have been a flurry of brewing and seeing resurgences of older strategies that have been dormant during ...
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Death & Taxes looks like a white weenie deck to the casual observer. In reality, Death & Taxes is a creature-based control deck that focuses on disrupting the opposing deck. Their goal is to play creature spells that delay the opponent just long enough to try and win the game by ...
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UR Delver is made up of cantrips, burn spells, aggressive creatures, and counterspells. Its game plan is to try to and play an early aggressive creature and then use counterspells and burn spells to disrupt the opponent enough to end the game quickly. Dragon’s Rage Channeler, Ragavan, ...
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Jeskai Ragavan is a midrange deck made up of counterspells, removal spells, and cheap creatures with the main one being Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. Ever since its printing, many decks have been trying to use Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, and the Jeskai shell seems to be doing it the best. Jeskai ...
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Final Painter Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Dark Ritual Rite of Flame Lion’s Eye Diamond Lion’s Eye Diamond Lotus Petal Mox Opal Lotus Petal » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan While you are a deck that is roughly 34 percent to hit an action spell every single draw step, almost 50 ...
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Current Legacy is at a healthy and exciting place at the moment. While not perfect, Kamigawa Neon Dynasty injected a much-needed boost of new design for the format to play with. Real choices in deck selection is happening on the Control front. Hidetsugu Consumes All might be the underdog boost ...
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Sneak & Show is a deck that focuses on casting and abusing Show and Tell and Sneak Attack in combination with Griselbrand, and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn making the opponent sacrifice six permanents, or Griselbrand drawing many cards to find an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn ...
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Elves is an creature based combo deck, obviously built around the Elf creature type. The main cards it’s trying to abuse are Glimpse of Nature, Gaea’s Cradle, and Natural Order. They also play a tutor package with Natural Order and Glimpse of Nature to search for any disruptive ...
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Merfolk has been around for a long time and a classic to the Legacy format, ever since the first Merfolk lords were printed. Over time more Merfolk cards were printed, and that continued to improve the deck to keep up with the format. With the additions of Aether Vial, Force of Will, and ...
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Initiative is a new Legacy deck built around the Dungeons and Initiative mechanic. A mono-white Stompy deck was born when two new white creatures – White Plume Adventurer, Seasoned Dungeoneer – both of which have the Initiative mechanic were printed. These creatures with the ...
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