Crawling back to Legacy?

I've been enjoying drafting on Friday nights with a low key crowd, but I am still itching to get to play Legacy more. I recently, yesterday, found out that a local store has a vibrant Legacy scene. MTG First has a Thursday night legacy play, 6:30 start, $10 entry, 2 dozen or so players, and proxies allowed. That hits most of my sweet spots.
All winnings are confined to store credit, so whatever. They usually have some pretty good deals there on singles, and product. This is unregistered so it won't count on the Wizards radar of DCI, which I don't care about at all.


The interesting bit for me is actually playing Legacy again. I've haven't really cracked at it since, the winter?


I'm still a big fan of two primary decks: Sneak and Show, and Death and Taxes.
The problem right now with D&T is that its utility in fighting off Miracles decks was pretty much neutered when Top was banned.
Sneak and Show is all the broken things, trying to get out insane big things, and beat your opponent. Screw long drawn out games. I am not a fan of the Omniscience version of the deck.


[Disclaimer for the blog: For the record, I HATE, HATE, HATE dredge decks. With the passion of a thousand burning suns. Oh.My.God. If Wizards could go back in time and remove dredge from the mechanics they produced... Bah.
From Mark Rosewater himself: ".... it's one of the most broken mechanics we've ever made, so I have no expectation that we'll ever see it again."]




In the meantime, I've been trying out Reanimator Depths. It is a hoot. While it is basically taking two different decks and mashing them together with a possible third deck via the sideboard. It presents the opponent with a "which part do I protect against?" sort of problem. I suspect that's why I like it, it throws logic a bit out the door, and tries to run you over with multiple problems at once.


Legacy has open up bigly since Wizards banned Top. It feels new with a ton of different decks. It opened up so much that Wizards is actually supporting it as part of their 25th anniversary. Sweet.