Legacy week #12

This is my last weekly Legacy for a couple weeks, got some vacationing to do! So with that in mind, I brought a fun deck this week, Omni/Sneak/Tell.
I had incorrectly assumed there was less counter magic floating around locally, boy howdy was I wrong. After my first round, I walked around to see what folks were running and I saw too much counter magic and the sideboards were flush with red-blasts.

Oh well.

Round 1 vs 4 color pile. (I think)

I honestly am not sure what he was running. What I saw from his deck in a later round and what I saw initially were two different things. Go figure. I took it 2-1, but I don't even recall how I won it 2-1. I do recall having a bad line play, and a Diabolic Edict. Though I do also recall Sneak Attack winning me game 3.

Round 2 vs br reanimator

First game I knew it was going to be tough when he announced "pre-game effect." Then displayed a Chancellor of the Annex. I threw a Lotus Petal at the effect, then countered a reanimate and promptly scryed my way to a Omniscience Griselbrand and he scooped.
Second game I threw in my 3 Faerie Macabre and Graftdigger Cage. I did mull due because of too many lands, and still never saw a sb card. He had a super sick opener and I never saw turn 3.
Third game, we both mulled. I kept my hand simply because I had 1 land, Ancient Tomb, and G. Cage. I could play through the Chancellor trigger if need be. He did not show, so I dropped it... he promptly Unmask me, grabs one of my two Griselrands, then attempts to Reanimate it. I simply point out the G. Cage would cause the spell to fizzle. He seemed extremely flummoxed. Needless to say, I won.

Round 3 vs Grixis

We split to guarantee good payout.

He won game 1 when I couldn't land anything.

I won game 2 because I landed Sneak Attack with Griselband, drew in to Petal and Emrakul.

He won game 3 because I didn't have a 2nd blue source to pitch to FoW to counter his second Spell Pierce. Damn.


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Finally won an auction. Not sure if it will be good stuff, but the price was right- cheap! Not expecting a lot, and if I make my money back after fees and shipping, I will call it a win.

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Deckbox has been slightly more successful recently. Got decent trades, nothing earth shattering.

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Win my win streak at Thursday night magic, I paid $10 3 weeks ago, haven't put any more money in. Got a pack of KMC perfect fits one week, and likely when I get back will play for free again and pick up something like a Life from the Loam with the winnings. Seems like successful magic!

Legacy week #11

Back at it... I considered playing Sneak/Show/Omni this week. However, I got my Hallowed Spiritkeeper in and wanted to give it a go. Turns out, it could be good, but need more reps with it.

I also threw out my 2 Cataclysms in favor of testing 2 Chalice of the Void. Spoiler alert, in the games I brought them in from the SB, I never drew one. Ouchers.


Round 1 vs Grixis control

In the current meta, this is DnTs toughest matchup. (thank god elves is not played locally)
Game 1 was slim chances, but just got out valued.
Game 2, kept a marginal hand and got land punched in the head. Damn you deck!

Note- I did get to vial in the Hallowed Spiritkeeper to block a Snapcaster, and produce 6 tokens. Too bad he already had a True-Name down, and I was at 6 and he was at 18. Damnit.


Round 2 vs Tin Fin Depths

Game 1, we both mulled to 6, and he kept a sketchy hand that could have gone off if he drew in to it. I produced enough threats, to overwhelm his Children of Korlis. I kinda felt bad, but it was a race that I won.

Game 2, he just went off on turn 2 and there was nothing I could do about it.  *slow clap*

Game 3, I drew all the answers all the time. My opening hand had both Rest in Peace and Faerie Macabre, plus StP. I felt REALLY good about his threats. The turn he Wished for Rec Sage, in the hopes of getting rid of my RiP, I topped my SECOND copy of RiP. At the end of the game I showed that I had just all the answers he could possibly throw at me. Yeah, all the answers showed up.



Round 3 vs Punishing Maverick

We both decided to split the round so we both got something for showing up, but played anyway.

Game 1, I had lots of answers for his threats. Just beat him down before he got his engine going.

Game 2, He overwhelmed my threats, his Bob did work. I also completely punted by not putting my Walking Ballista in from my SB. When I Recruiter'd, and I couldn't find it, yeah- I punted hard.

It was at this point I said, I am done. I was exhausted from the day and said I didn't want to play game 3. The rounds were taking forever, and I had been up since 5. My punt on the SB move showed me I was mentally fried, and just wanted to head home.



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Personal point of pride, just as I got my last card for my paper legal DnT deck- Surgical Extraction, I go and think about new cards- Chalice of the Void. Damn you Magic and changing things.

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I am fairly sure I am going to run Sneak/Show next week. The lack of counter magic currently in the local meta makes me want to do it. Just for the grins and giggles.

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I briefly talked with a guy who was running a Bonus Round storm deck. He had some interesting insights. He was also very happy with the lack of Flusterstorm in the current meta.
He was annoyed that his friend decided to 'adjust' the sideboard a bit... for some reason taking out Empty the Warrens.
The explosiveness of this deck makes it HIGHLY interesting to those who love math and storm counts.

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With my "winnings" from last week, I got to play for free this week and picked up a set of perfect fit sleeves. Needed more, and perfect timing.

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There are a couple auctions I am keeping my eye on. One I put a bid on, the other I am trying to figure out bidding. Its an absentee bid condition. Could be some VERY interesting cards, but I need some more information.
The auction well has been rather dry recently for me.

Legacy week #10

I've made it out to 10 weeks of Legacy since the start of my journey to regular play. I missed the past two weeks due to family stuff and Guilds pre-releases.

For this week, I went with a fairly stock DnT list. This time around, I ran 3 Crusaders to help fight through some of the Grixis and Death Shadow match-ups.

Admission time- *sigh* This is a hard one for me, and don't laugh too hard. Double strike is two separate damages. Which I just wasn't aware of, well, sort of, but not really. This is VERY important to equipment based attacks like Jitte, SoFI, and even SoWP. If a Crusader has one of those things on them, they trigger each time they hit- once for First Strike, and once for regular damage. *double face palm* I honestly didn't notice that.

Ok, back to regular Magic and pretending I know what I am doing.


Round 1 vs DnT

Ah the mirror.

Game 1 I lost eventually due to a SoFI on a Flickerwisp. It was a toss up for a while, but he drew more Stoneforges than me.

Game 2  A bit of a gaff on his part allowed me to swing through. He had a Brightling deployed, and I got rid of his Mom after he got greedy and used her for attack damage. He totally missed that he had a land up to return Brightling, and I won the race from there.

Game 3  It was an ugly affair. Board stall for a while. He got rid of my SoWP, I got rid of his Jitte. I kept dropping threats. He kept pulling lands and that made all the difference.



Round 2 vs Grixis Control

Game 1 He overproduced as Grixis does, and overwhelmed me. I had slim windows, and just couldn't get there.

Game 2 My deck decided lands and Vials were not worth showing up. Opening hand had 2 lands, and nothing for about 5 more turns. I got crushed.



Round 3 vs Maverick

We intentionally drew to make sure we both got paid instead of one of us getting nothing.

We played a few games to see how it would go, and I took some notes from TJ because he plays a CRAP ton of magic and is awesome.
I believe we split the games we played, and the games I won I had multiple things in my opener- multiple Moms, multiple Wastelands.


For next week, I hope to have my Hallowed Spiritkeeper in my deck to help with the control matchups. Likely to drop the Wingmare. Also going to put a Gideon in SB, drop one of the Cataclysm.

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Great tournament writeup on DnT at duel for duals.

Guilds prereleases

That's right, plural pre-release! I made it to two. The first was from my favorite draft shop- MTG Duel. Its a phone/computer shop by day, and MTG store at night. The owner Eric used to have a much bigger store, but due to changing environments, rent, etc, it was moved to a smaller location and things changed. He still does a great job with supporting the strong regular group that shows.

For the first pre-release I went with Boros. Lets smash face!

My promo was the EXACT same pack as my buddy who showed up and played Boros as well- Legion Warboss. I think I played him once in 3 rounds.

First- I lost to the best deck in the shop. He had everything. I did manage a game win when he just couldn't find answers and kept drawing lands.
I did remove a single land, and my deck seemed to like that idea.

Second- I don't recall, just smashing face and didn't bother taking names.

Third- The mirror match, the MVP easily was Skynight Legionnaire. Boras vs Boras means flying does huge work.

For my efforts I got 2 packs.

HOWEVER:  I did open some sweet sweet value- Assassin's Trophy, Ral, Caller of Storms, and Overgrown Tomb.

I showed Eric my super duper value, and he was excited to see Ral. He wanted to build a Brawl deck off him. So I just gave him the card. I knew it would only sit in my trade binder and slowly decrease in value. Was perfectly fine with that because of all the effort Eric does to keep the little community afloat. Besides, I have abused the value chain at that store. (Hell foil Scarab God, foil Mana Drain, etc)

I will be playing in their release draft party. They are a hoot, and it lines up nicely because I can't make Legacy this week.

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Second Pre-release, I should have never gone to it. I went to MTG First, my Legacy haunt of choice. I got Selesnya because the synergy should be super sweet.

Everything fell apart- I had ZERO synergy. Nothing worked the way it should have. I ran one of my 6 possible rares- Vraska. She did win me my only game out of 5 I played. I quickly dropped because of how utterly BAD my pile of cards was. Eek gads.
I had no good way to produce a small army to use convoke, I had no ramp, I had nothing that looked like it worked.
4 of my 6 rares were in black, and 3 were completely unplayable in my deck. It was awful. Just super sad faced panda.

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I could NOT get Assassin's Trophy out of my hands fast enough. I found someone through DeckBox to trade it to. Landed a Natural Order and a Brightling. I think in 2 months you will be able to get that card for $10-$15. The supply will need to catch up with demand, but that's how Wizards wants perception to occur for now.

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Investment note- Walking Ballista was rediscovered after it rotated out of standard. Its a Modern and Legacy staple now. Good luck finding it for under $20.

Also, Recruiter of the Guard- keeps ticking up.

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Last note, I only paid $11 for both pre-release events. Not $11 each, but $11 for both. Thanks to store credit!