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.