But wait, aren't you missing a week?
Yes and no. I did not go to Legacy last week, instead going to my LGS for a draft. Was a little pumped as they were doing a bunch of give aways and I wanted to at least draft Allegiance once. The turnout was, at best, thin. I did draft, and I did get 3rd place. A couple packs for my effort. Some free promo foils, and was home before 9. VERY quick night. (if anyone wants to trade for a promo or two of Lavinia, Azorious Renegade, let me know. haha)
On to the weekly.
I got there just at 6:30, which is supposed to be the start time, but they usually start a couple minutes after. Just how things go. I walk in, and they are doing pairings already. Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I sign up anyhow, and get a first round bye due to the even number of players. Cool beans.
Before I went out, I did sleeve up a mash up of a mono red prison deck and a Show and Tell deck. Basically you throw the prison aspects of mono red, 8 moons, 4 chalice, and 4 trinisphere, together with the big beat your face in aspects of Show and Tell. No counters, no digging, just play and pray. Seemed like a fun idea, right?
Well, I did not run that deck. I had exactly ZERO times shuffling it, and I am glad I decided against it. No clue what a good hand should look like, and what mulligans shouldn't. I did get to play it exactly 3 times between rounds for fun. It was clunky, but the time it did do something fun- whoa baby. Talk about putting the clamps down.
First round- bye.
I spent the round watching others play. There were 3 burn players out. One was even running a mono red version with Arclight Phoenix. I think he was also using Light up the Stage. That card is hotness for the burn players.
Saw a couple on B/U Shadow... no reanimate players. No SnS. One Eldrazi Post. (he later admitted to losing 5 games to Price of Progress. I felt bad for him)
Second round vs u/b Shadow- Ryan
Very good local player putting up some very good results. He won a Mox Pearl in November with Grixis Control.
Game 1- On the draw, first 7, too much land, too little early action. The 6 was "ok" and kept. He first turn thoughtsiezed me, removed Chalice, and then things went downhill quickly. Was destroyed as I couldn't keep anything around. It was a bit embarrassing.
Game 2- No sure what I sideboarded, there isn't a ton I have for this matchup. Cavern is good, and Chalice is great. I think I threw in Leylines in the hopes of keeping Gurmags off the board. Not a great plan to be honest. Well, first 7 had 1 land. 6 had no lands and 3 Chalice. I kept my 5, and attempted to make a show of it. He promptly destroyed my hopes and dreams. Damn you Death Shadow.
Third round vs u/b Shadow, again.
New guy to the Legacy side of things, which explains b/u shadow. Even if you don't have duals, coming from Modern this is a solid deck.
Offered to split so I at least broke even. He was 2-0, and I was 1-1, which meant he was paired down to me. He said he'd rather play it out. Alrighty, all the marbles for me!
Game 1- I put up a couple early threats, and he flops in 3 Death Shadows. Damnit. I make a game of it, but can't get enough threats out fast enough to ping. An Endbringer attempted to level the playing field, but he would attack with 1 Shadow, and I would have to chump block. It was a slow death. I couldn't find answers to 3 of the damn things. So I died.
Game 2- Much quicker game, I got turn 1 Chalice out, and just flopped creatures out turn after turn. He couldn't do much, so that was that. Quick game 2.
Game 3- It was a resource problem game. I got a turn 1 Chalice out again, which really hamstrung him. I figured he had answers, because he paused when I cast it, and said, ok. I knew it was a temporary answer. He wasted my Cavern after I got a Mimic in to play. Fine... I wasted his land during my turn. Turns out, that was the winning move as he never found another land until it was too late. I threw out a 2/2 Endless One. Then a 3/3 Endless One. Attacking for 5 a turn is good, with a Chalice on 1, even better. I got down the following lands:
Eye of Ugin, Eldrazi Temple, and City of Traitors. I top-decked a Smasher. He attempted to Daze it, to which I said- pay the 1. Huh? I had 1 floating. The Eye of Ugin made it cost 2 less. Had to use 2 from the Temple, and only 1 from the City. Kinda mean, but it is math. Swung with team for the win.
He could not find a second land in time to drop a Ratchet Bomb to blow up my X stuff. Whew!
Sooooooooooooooo, I wound up with a 2-1 record for my 2 games of actual play. Made my money back at least. I believe I have about $40 in credit at the store. Might have to run out traditional SnS next week as the prison version didn't feel good in limited testing. Though I would change out one Emrakul for a Intuition.
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I won a very cheap auction. Like $5 cheap. Waiting on final costs with shipping, but should be WELL under $20. Hoping to find my money back, and maybe one $10 card. Would be fun. Will report when it comes in.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Legacy week #17
Enough messing around. I was leaning toward running SnS, but took a vote from my friends and Eldrazi Stompy won. Interesting aside, I am about 7 cards from it being a paper legal deck. Damn you City of Traitors...
Anyhow, I thought it might do better just bringing the pain to the current meta. Chalice is good, it either has to be answered or totally screws plenty of decks. The one downside to Eldrazi is its mana base, it can be hosed by Blood Moon or Back to Basics. I wasn't entirely worried about them to be honest. The only deck I would be really worried about would be a mono-red prison or b/r reanimator.
Round 1 vs Burn
Nice player, moved over from Modern to try out Legacy. Was his 3rd Legacy 'event' ever. Pretty sure he loves playing burn in Modern as he foiled out everything he could.
Game 1- Early bolts to my head were answered by a turn two Thorn, followed by a turn 3 Chalice on 1. Shut down the offensive. I turned creatures sideways, and got there.
Game 2- I boarded in my 4 Leyline of Sanctity. I had a no-land mulligan, down to 6. Kept that one, scry and saw a Leyline- bottom. Doh. He kept a very sketchy hand, which was made worse by a turn 1 Chalice by me. He scooped after turn 3
We played some more games afterwards, I offered up either DnT or SnS. He choose SnS. (mental Timmy thought- alright! Lets crush with stupid big cards!) We never sideboarded, but he beat me 2 out of 3. It wasn't even close in the 2 games he won. Well, at least I got that out of the way.
Mental note- take Blood Moons out, put Omniscience back in.
Round 2 vs UR Delver
Thought about the match: Chalice is a hell of a card.
Game 1- Early Chalice wasn't answered, and Cavern of Souls allows my things to enter the field to crush. Did see he was trying out Pteramander. So I thought, ya know, lets put in the Leyline of the Void to keep that thing from being cheaty.
Game 2- It was the most interesting game of the night. My opening hand had 2 Leylines, a Chalice, and other things. I got out an early Chalice on 1, then he promptly drops a Blood Moon. DOH! He had a Pteramander, which was the only threat for a while. He found a Young Pyromancer the turn before I found a Chalice to put on 2. From there it was a game of, "Can Phil remember Chalice triggers?!" Which the answer was yes, yes I could. I also, for the only time it could happened, cast a Simian Spirit Guide. Between that and an early Matter Reshaper, I had threats on board. My Warping Wail removed his Pryo, but not before he created cannon fodder for my threats.
Eventually I got a nice Endless One out, and he just could not keep up with the pressure. Hell, I even activated the Eye of Ugin to fetch up a Smasher.
Round 3 vs Grixis Delver
Thought about the match: Cavern of Souls is a hell of a card.
Before we played, I asked if he was 2-0, and if he was- did he want to split and play for fun. He said he was 1-1, which meant I was paired down. He also said he wanted to play it out as he was trying to get reps with the deck. Normally he is a dedicated DnT player, but this week- he was trying other things as DnT is not great right now.
Game 1- I landed 3 Thought-Knot Seers, powered out by Cavern of Souls. Turns out, blue decks really don't like seeing creatures hit the board unchecked. I simply picked off his hand, presented threats, and ignored his True-Name Nemesis. It, was, glorious.
Game 2- Boarded in Warping Wail and Ratchet Bombs. Early Chalice put the clamps on his early threats. He did blow it up with an Engineered Explosives, but it was way too late. I had big hairy threats out via Cavern, and he could not remove them.
6-0 in games. Not too shabby. I can play for the next 3 weeks for free, and that's the goal. If I have a winning record next week, I will cash in for something. Maybe a Natural Order, or a Life from the Loam. Or even maybe some Ultimate Masters packs, oooooooooo.
Notes from the night:
Anyhow, I thought it might do better just bringing the pain to the current meta. Chalice is good, it either has to be answered or totally screws plenty of decks. The one downside to Eldrazi is its mana base, it can be hosed by Blood Moon or Back to Basics. I wasn't entirely worried about them to be honest. The only deck I would be really worried about would be a mono-red prison or b/r reanimator.
Round 1 vs Burn
Nice player, moved over from Modern to try out Legacy. Was his 3rd Legacy 'event' ever. Pretty sure he loves playing burn in Modern as he foiled out everything he could.
Game 1- Early bolts to my head were answered by a turn two Thorn, followed by a turn 3 Chalice on 1. Shut down the offensive. I turned creatures sideways, and got there.
Game 2- I boarded in my 4 Leyline of Sanctity. I had a no-land mulligan, down to 6. Kept that one, scry and saw a Leyline- bottom. Doh. He kept a very sketchy hand, which was made worse by a turn 1 Chalice by me. He scooped after turn 3
We played some more games afterwards, I offered up either DnT or SnS. He choose SnS. (mental Timmy thought- alright! Lets crush with stupid big cards!) We never sideboarded, but he beat me 2 out of 3. It wasn't even close in the 2 games he won. Well, at least I got that out of the way.
Mental note- take Blood Moons out, put Omniscience back in.
Round 2 vs UR Delver
Thought about the match: Chalice is a hell of a card.
Game 1- Early Chalice wasn't answered, and Cavern of Souls allows my things to enter the field to crush. Did see he was trying out Pteramander. So I thought, ya know, lets put in the Leyline of the Void to keep that thing from being cheaty.
Game 2- It was the most interesting game of the night. My opening hand had 2 Leylines, a Chalice, and other things. I got out an early Chalice on 1, then he promptly drops a Blood Moon. DOH! He had a Pteramander, which was the only threat for a while. He found a Young Pyromancer the turn before I found a Chalice to put on 2. From there it was a game of, "Can Phil remember Chalice triggers?!" Which the answer was yes, yes I could. I also, for the only time it could happened, cast a Simian Spirit Guide. Between that and an early Matter Reshaper, I had threats on board. My Warping Wail removed his Pryo, but not before he created cannon fodder for my threats.
Eventually I got a nice Endless One out, and he just could not keep up with the pressure. Hell, I even activated the Eye of Ugin to fetch up a Smasher.
Round 3 vs Grixis Delver
Thought about the match: Cavern of Souls is a hell of a card.
Before we played, I asked if he was 2-0, and if he was- did he want to split and play for fun. He said he was 1-1, which meant I was paired down. He also said he wanted to play it out as he was trying to get reps with the deck. Normally he is a dedicated DnT player, but this week- he was trying other things as DnT is not great right now.
Game 1- I landed 3 Thought-Knot Seers, powered out by Cavern of Souls. Turns out, blue decks really don't like seeing creatures hit the board unchecked. I simply picked off his hand, presented threats, and ignored his True-Name Nemesis. It, was, glorious.
Game 2- Boarded in Warping Wail and Ratchet Bombs. Early Chalice put the clamps on his early threats. He did blow it up with an Engineered Explosives, but it was way too late. I had big hairy threats out via Cavern, and he could not remove them.
6-0 in games. Not too shabby. I can play for the next 3 weeks for free, and that's the goal. If I have a winning record next week, I will cash in for something. Maybe a Natural Order, or a Life from the Loam. Or even maybe some Ultimate Masters packs, oooooooooo.
Notes from the night:
- I never once drew a Mimic. *shrug*
- The day before I cut two of my finger tips and had Band-Aids on them. Had no idea how much that would impact shuffling. Damnit.
- My two of Cavern of Souls felt like 4, super duper effective.
- At least 2, likely 3, players were running burn with Light Up the Stage. I know 1 guy is a super dedicated burn player. (someone has to be, right?)
- Apparently I was playing the wrong version of big eldrazi from 2 weeks ago, I should have run the green splash version. Without prompting, a couple guys were talking about how they got CRUSHED by it over the weekend. Might have to throw that together. Hmmmmm
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Legacy week #16
After my "let down" of the free legacy event, I felt I wanted to play something fun. I also texted some legacy friends and asked them if I should play it, it was 3-0 vote of yet. So I busted out, "apple jacks." A loam deck which uses Titania, Protector of Argoth, to create an army of 5/3. I honestly had never played it before, and it SHOWED. Holy crap did it show.
I lost to a Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deck.
I also lost to a dark Maverick deck. *sigh*
Ok ok ok... I learned my lesson. No fun decks allowed at my weekly. Time to move on. I think for next time, the choices will be: (I fully intend for friends to vote on which deck to choose again.)
Sneak and Show- still debating Omniscience vs Blood Moon main
Eldrazi stompy, NOT post.
DnT, is like tier 1.5. Not tier 2, and not 1. All depends on the pilot.
Maybe Grixis control, but I need to dig up about 5-7 cards of some sort to make it complete. I haven't even started the sideboard. Maybe I add that to the rotation next week. I do want to learn that side of my worst matchup.
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Complete let down of the week- The free legacy event was 6 rounds. Not 5. I left after my 5th match at 3-2. Let me say why I was a bit, deflated.
If I had stayed, played out round 6, and won... I would have had the best tie breakers. Why? I lost to the top 2 decks. That annoys me.
Also annoying, I found out via the deck list publishing- the Infect deck, which hosed me game 2 of our match, was running ONE Karakas sideboard... and he PULLED IT. Good lord. I've swapped for 7-8 cards at times and never seen them. EVER. He pulls his 1 of for the win?! Talk about running hot.
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Oh, on my Sneak and Show, I am now running a test copy of Intuition. I dropped my 4th Emrakul for it. Makes total sense now. Much rather have a Griselbrand in play and draw my way into an Emrakul.
Intuition will likely be in the deck moving forward no matter if I am playing Blood Moon or Omniscience. I am still debating Boseiju main, even though I am not Cunning Wish version of the deck. There are enough counters floating around out there that it might make sense.
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Lastly- my re-investment in to Legacy finally took an odd turn. For the first period of my re-entry, I had proxies. A lot of them. I just don't have Legacy money to invest in the required cards that I needed to make the decks I wanted. I may, or may not have, gotten multiple sets of power-9, and handed a few out to friends because I could. *cough*
For my SnS deck, I had 1 Flusterstorm, and wanted a second instead of 3 Spell Pierces. Until it was reprinted, the Commander version of the card was clocking in the $50-$80 range for a single copy. (classic supply vs demand issue) Now you can pick up a copy for $10 or so.
So I happily traded for my second copy, plopped it in the deck and went on my merry way. A couple days later, I pulled apart a RUG Delver deck I had, and found a THIRD copy of Flusterstorm.
*DOH!*
Its finally happened- I can't keep track of my inventory. Not a bad problem, just an interesting one.
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Last note- why has the Modern Masters 2017 copy of Griselbrand gone from a $7-$8 card to a $15-$16 copy?! WHY?!
I lost to a Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deck.
I also lost to a dark Maverick deck. *sigh*
Ok ok ok... I learned my lesson. No fun decks allowed at my weekly. Time to move on. I think for next time, the choices will be: (I fully intend for friends to vote on which deck to choose again.)
Sneak and Show- still debating Omniscience vs Blood Moon main
Eldrazi stompy, NOT post.
DnT, is like tier 1.5. Not tier 2, and not 1. All depends on the pilot.
Maybe Grixis control, but I need to dig up about 5-7 cards of some sort to make it complete. I haven't even started the sideboard. Maybe I add that to the rotation next week. I do want to learn that side of my worst matchup.
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Complete let down of the week- The free legacy event was 6 rounds. Not 5. I left after my 5th match at 3-2. Let me say why I was a bit, deflated.
If I had stayed, played out round 6, and won... I would have had the best tie breakers. Why? I lost to the top 2 decks. That annoys me.
Also annoying, I found out via the deck list publishing- the Infect deck, which hosed me game 2 of our match, was running ONE Karakas sideboard... and he PULLED IT. Good lord. I've swapped for 7-8 cards at times and never seen them. EVER. He pulls his 1 of for the win?! Talk about running hot.
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Oh, on my Sneak and Show, I am now running a test copy of Intuition. I dropped my 4th Emrakul for it. Makes total sense now. Much rather have a Griselbrand in play and draw my way into an Emrakul.
Intuition will likely be in the deck moving forward no matter if I am playing Blood Moon or Omniscience. I am still debating Boseiju main, even though I am not Cunning Wish version of the deck. There are enough counters floating around out there that it might make sense.
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Lastly- my re-investment in to Legacy finally took an odd turn. For the first period of my re-entry, I had proxies. A lot of them. I just don't have Legacy money to invest in the required cards that I needed to make the decks I wanted. I may, or may not have, gotten multiple sets of power-9, and handed a few out to friends because I could. *cough*
For my SnS deck, I had 1 Flusterstorm, and wanted a second instead of 3 Spell Pierces. Until it was reprinted, the Commander version of the card was clocking in the $50-$80 range for a single copy. (classic supply vs demand issue) Now you can pick up a copy for $10 or so.
So I happily traded for my second copy, plopped it in the deck and went on my merry way. A couple days later, I pulled apart a RUG Delver deck I had, and found a THIRD copy of Flusterstorm.
*DOH!*
Its finally happened- I can't keep track of my inventory. Not a bad problem, just an interesting one.
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Last note- why has the Modern Masters 2017 copy of Griselbrand gone from a $7-$8 card to a $15-$16 copy?! WHY?!
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