Weekly legacy, #3

Back at it this week. I decided to sleeve up red splash DnT with Shalai. Why? Two reasons, #1 I was seeing a bit more lands/loam decks. I wanted to punish the mana bases. #2 I got these cards 7 months ago, and damnit I was going to play them. Turns out, I was wrong on #1. None of the lands/loam decks were present at all last night. *sigh*

So I wound up going 1-1-1. Which means, at the very least, I got to play legacy for free. Nothing wrong with that. Better than my 0-2 drop week 1, and my 1-2 last week. Progress, right?

Round 1 vs Miracles:
Took game one with Karakas saving my Thalia. Applied pressure, and got there with P&K pumping out the hits.
Game 2 was just overwhelmed with Monks. Kept drawing lands, it was not a good look.
Game 3, I punted so hard I almost scooped when I realized. The match was going to time to be honest. I had a Thalia out, with an untapped Karakas. He StP'd the Thalia and I did nothing. It was a full minute later that I realized what I had done completely wrong. We wound up splitting, but, UGH. I should have had that one. Magic is hard.

Round 2 vs U/B Delver
Game 1, lost to reoccurring Dark Blast. Could not find my Cleric to nuke his graveyard. Lots of cantrips and ways to dump stuff. Lite mana base.
Game 2, hosed myself pretty good with Moon Man. He then dumped both Dread of Night. Sealed the deal.


Round 3 vs R/U Delver.
Game 1, he was rolling with Grim Lavamancer and a flipped Delver. For the first time all night I drew a Shalai and basically took the game over. He had outs to the Shalai, but could not find them.
Game 2, I just rolled over him with pressure, double Swords, and RiP. Locked him out of the game basically.



Lessons learned:

Vial/Karakas combo is amazing
Magus of the Moon- pretty bad in current meta. (don't yell at me, I wanted to play the damn deck)
Shalai can be great, but too expensive
Miracles is a bit of a pain, but not nearly as bad as it was with Top.
There is a lot cantrips and blue deck manipulation going on right now. At least at my LGS.

Weekly legacy result, and auction

Went to Legacy again last week at MTG First. Rolled out my Omni-Sneak-Show deck. The most satisfying moment was to bust out a first turn kill. I petered out after that, but still- it was very nice.

Turn goes like this:
Ancient Tomb + Lotus Pedal = Show and Tell
Force of Will their Daze.
Drop Omniscience.
Cast Griselbrand, draw 14. Can't find one of four Emrakul. I Ponder, shuffle. Slight of Hand, FINALLY find it, cast and win. Whew.

I finally understand why Arcane Artisan is good for this deck- Surgical Extraction. I got hosed a couple times when I couldn't get my big things in because of having my first S+T countered, then Surgicaled. It sucked. I had outs with Sneak Attack, but I think bringing in the Artisan would be a great method in diversifying the targets. (2 S+T, 1 Sneak out; 3 AA in)

I could have won all three matches, I never felt like I was completely lost. Poor draws sucked it up for me. Eh, it happens. Land floods happen.

Notes- there are at least 2 devoted DnT players at the weekly event. I feel good about keeping Batterskull out again this week, and Sword of War and Peace in main deck. I also put in the two Surgical Extractions in the SB. Need to pick up real copies of those eventually, until then- proxies are good enough.
I've also considered running the red splash version of DnT for the Magus of the Moon. The amount of non-basic lands are up again.

Stifles are everywhere.

Wastelands are everywhere.

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I think I won an auction from this site in Canada. I sent them a message asking if I had, and their reply was: "We are closed until August 7th. We will let you know at that time."

WTF, how does a company operate like this?

In any case, I've got time to figure out other things I guess. Hahaha!

M19 Pre-release, and three auctions?!

I am not super enamored with Core 19. I can't tell you why to be honest. I just don't want to draft it. I am planning to start playing at a local regular Thursday night Legacy night. I have my two or so regular, want to play, decks. Its cheaper at $10, and as I don't feel like drafting.

I did catch a pre-release on Saturday at the local shop. Very small crowd, only 8-10 people total, 3 rounds. I went 2-1. Got 2 packs, and moved on. I did open one of the cards I was hoping to get- Remorseful Cleric. I need to pick up a second for the D&T deck, but super happy to have it. Graveyard-hate: hoooooooooooooo! As for my deck, it was R/B/w. Dragons were flowing which was nice. First match I just got boned by mana- it happens. Second and third rounds, the dragons flew and crushed people's souls. It was nice. It sucked I didn't get a single mythic, while everyone else had at least one. Seriously. I threw my Dragon's Horde in to my single EDH pre-con dragon deck. *shrug*

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Legacy news- I picked up 2 Brightlings for my deck after they were highly touted by Thraben U. Looks like I did the right things as they jumped up to $20 after people realized they were really good and not a lot of them out there. Silly Battlebond!
I also ordered a 3rd from TCG for $5.55 after the spike occurred. Still waiting to see if they honor the price.


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I won 3 separate auctions this week. 2 were from the same location, so I am chalking that up to the same auction. The other was from Canada.
The first two (one) were this one, and this one. I thought I did a pretty good job getting all that for like a total of $85. (auction fees included) Then there was a matter of shipping. *gulp* Ummmmm, how much you ask? Try another $45 on top. YOUCH. So for $130, I might get my money back from the cards I am pretty sure that are there- pain lands, Blood Moon, and other various cards. The real question is in the boxes of cards. I am not holding out much hope for those, likely fairly picked over. But you never know, as cards spike for no good reason.

The third/other auction had 2 cards I was aiming for- a beta basic, and a Unlimited Goblin King. Those two cards would pay for the lot easily, and everything else would be free. Who knows.