Legacy week #26

One of my greatest purchasing debates in Magic has just occurred- I got my credit from Card Kingdom. It was closer to 500 than 600, which I am not sneezing or laughing at. My initial set of cards clocked in at just over $600 in trade value, so I lost about $100 in value through their verification methods.
My problem is, I am not entirely sure what I should get. Yes, it should be 1 Volcanic Island, but a NM one would basically eat the entire trade value. (still makes me giggle a little bit) But if I drop down to EX condition I could pick up a third Cavern of Souls, paying $10 in cash for both. Or do I just pick up smaller pieces that I currently need, aka under $50.

GAH! Decisions....

One other consideration, I doubt I will have much trade stock to send in again this year. It very well could take me another year or two to build up enough to send in again. There is no need to keep the spare money sitting there. none.
[update, I pulled the trigger. One thing I did not account for- Sales Tax. Man that hit and sucked.]



Round 1 vs b/u delver

I know the guy, he runs this deck every week. Not a great matchup for SnS, at all.

Game 1- One land opener- mulligan. Draw 6, no lands. UGH! Seriously deck. 5 cards, kept but awful hand. I flounder around for a bit and I just get killed by flying creatures. [Editors note- I am starting to think my deck hates producing lands on demand] The only good note, it took about 3-4 turns for him to flip the delver. So I had that going for me.

Game 2- Throw in Grim Lavamancers and Defense Grids. Mulligan again, but in my 6 I had the Lavamancer. Cool, cool. He gets out a Delver, I land the Lavamancer with support. He makes it so I ping the Delver, then he top decks a Lightning Bolt to kill the Lavamancer. And that is how the game goes, he just has the answers for threats. He had two wastelands, which didn't hurt me as much as it could have. He is down to 2 cards, I cast Show and Tell, he had a Force. Seriously?! Ugh, just ugh. He had all the answers.


Round 2 vs Maverick

A very pimped out version, FBB duals, foils, and FBB other cards.

Game 1, He had the weirdest opening hand, and showed me afterwards. (3 Green Sun, Dryad, and no other ramp. It was weird) We both mulligan. He has a bird first turn, then into Thalia. Huh. Slowed me down a SMIDGE. Why? Cause I had turn 2 Show and Tell in to Omnscince, into Griselbrand otherwise. I had to wait until turn 3 to find another piece of mana. Show and Tell, Omniscience, he put a Knight in. Which, honestly, could be the difference for him if I let him have another turn. But I dug and found Emrakul. Game 1.

Game 2, I didn't have to mulligan. It was a miracle. However, my hand was not great, 2 Sneak Attacks but a Griselbrand. I managed again to dig to my combo of Show and Tell, Omniscience, Griselbrand dig into Emrakul. I don't think it made him feel better when I told him I was only running 2 Omniscience.

We played a 3rd game for fun, and he turn two'd a choke, drop a Karakas, and basically just had all the hate I didn't see in either previous games. Go figure.


Round 3 vs Mono-red stompy

Game 1: His turn 1, Chrome Mox, Chrome Mox, land, Chalice on 1, turn 2, Trinisphere. (empty handed at that point) I was like, huh. Looked at my hand- Griselbrand and a bunch of cantrips. However, he had no pressure. I did what SnS does here and just waited, I couldn't do much else with the soft lock he had. He wound up getting out Magus of the Moon and Legion War Boss. He got me down to 8 life. I had to Show and Tell (with help from a Lotus Petal) in a Sneak Attack because I had low mana issues and he was going to kill me in two turns. I had an Volcanic and a basic island in place. I had both the Griselbrand and Emrakul in hand, but only 1 red source to activate Sneak Attack. Activate Sneak Attack, draw 7, find red source. Deal 22. Whew.

Game 2: Turn 2 I Show and Tell in an Emrakul because I know he can't stop it. My only fear would be he had a Goblin Cratermaker, but I didn't peg him to have it. Turns out, I was right. He scooped.

He said he hadn't played a match of magic so quickly in a long while.



Thoughts from the night-
I only drew and played Lotus Petal once all night and it was super critical when I did.
My deck needs a stern talking to about this land drawing issues in the first 7. Two weeks now it has hindered me.
Won't be able to play next week due to family obligations, it happens.
The local store I play weekly Legacy was sold in the past week, lets hope the new owners keep up the support for the Legacy community. Would suck if they changed it.