Legacy weeklies

 I've been three Legacy weeklies recently... and done poorly at all 3. Took different deck each week.

1st- turbo depths, reviewed here.
2nd- Sneak and Show, went 0-2
3rd- Yorian DnT with new Neon cards, went 0-2

    Yeah, not great. To the point that I didn't feel good about posting about the results. 

The weekly jammed full of really good players. Its no knock on getting lucky, but rather I just haven't found the deck to take. 

For example, this week I saw in no particular order:

RG Lands
8-Cast with Cappa
Ooops All Spells
RB Goblins
Maverick

    All run by highly skilled players. I don't jam NEARLY as much as most of these players likely do. A couple of them jam regularly on The Legacy Pit. I haven't asked, but fairly sure they also jam on MTGO regularly. Me? I am lucky to get in some weekly games. Its trade off in time and expectations right. I just wanna play some. Most of my ingest of Legacy is podcast and recordings. So at least its something and I am staying up on events. Right?

    My current thoughts are, maybe draft for a couple weeks... maybe stick to one deck and stop being so wishy washy. Maybe just take a break? I am not in a funk, just trying to find a groove that doesn't involve me going 0-2 drop every week.

 

As part of that, I am heading out a different store that is doing a monthly (?! Yeah, I don't know either) for $6. MD Game Haven- lets see how it goes. Hopefully I can jam with a buddy. 

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In Arena news, I made Mythic again before the end of the season.

 

 

Here is the deck I used to make most of the run. The deck posted a 67% win rate for me doing only Bo1. Also, I learned, when attempting to jam to Mythic- best matchups are before dinner. Just saying.

Kamigawa Neon Dynasty, pre-release

Went to a new store for me to do my first in store pre-release in over 2 years. Shout out to Gritty Goblin Games. Bit a of an odd shopping center, but whatever... I was gonna jam some brand new cards I was likely going to have to read all my opponents cards to understand. Thats how these things go.

My goal was to-  1) Hopefully come away with a winning record, 2) Pull at least one card I wanted for some legacy deck and 3) Hang out with a friend or 3 to make pre-release that much more fun in person. 

At the time of the pre-release, the legacy interesting cards consisted of:

- Lion Sash
- Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- Boseiju, Who Endures

I got one of those cards in Lion Sash, which is likely classified as a bomb in limited due to the mechanic reconfigure. In Yorian D&T for legacy it means a card that can be tutored for from 8 different cards. (Stoneforge and Recruiter) It also presents problems on how the hell to get rid of it once it latches on to something. The only downside is requiring white to activate. Thank goodness the reconfigure is generic, whew.

Was happy that 1 of 3 friends, who made some effort to attend, was able to show up. I hadn't played in a shop with him since the small local draft location shut down 3 years ago. It was good times all around!

My deck was white-black disruption. MVP card of the day, removal. Gesh I had a lot.
I almost went Green, but just didn't have enough to get me to replace the other colors.

First round won 2-1

Game 1 got there with weenies, and just lite removal. Felt good.

Game 2 Lost due to overwhelming forces

Game 3 rinse and repeat of game 1. Huzzah for Virus Beetle. What a freaking annoying card that was.

Second round lost 0-2

Game 1 I knew something was up when my opening hand was 5 lands and 2 six-drops Mulligan to two lands and thats when things just fell off the sides. Oh well.

Game 2 Even worse than game 1. The limited lands I had were the wrong color to support what I wound up drawing. He killed the few things I had, and just crushed my undefeated hopes and dreams 

Even a pity game was awful. (because his first round opponent registered, paid, and did not show.)

Third round won 2-1

Game 1 He had a 3 color deck and didn't draw any islands for about 7 turns which crushed his blue heavy hand. Meanwhile I found just enough to make things hard for myself. I wound up getting him to 2 life and I almost milled myself when I realized- Ya know, I have 5 attackers and at most he has 3 blockers. Math took over and I won. (also notable that it was the only game all day, including mulligans, I ever drew my Lion Sash. What stupid card that things is)

Game 2 Oh deck. sigh... just stomped by very large creatures even though I removed about 5 things, I had no threats to apply pressure. Oh well

Game 3 Was of note because he completely changed decks from b/u/r to w/g. I had no clue what he was attempting to do, but my disruption was enough to stop anything he tried.

Just for playing 2 rounds, everyone there got a set booster. If you went 2-0-1 or better, you also got packs. I went home with 3 set boosters for my efforts. Within those packs was NOTHING of note. All my rares but the lion sash went up for trade on deck box. 

Super happy to have been back.

The weekly and a PRE-RELEASE!

 I went to Level Up for the weekly, and took Rainbow Depths. Only took it because I had never had a chance to jam it in person at the store because I got all the cards over Covid. I didn't think it was awesome because so many decks had ways of blocking or taking care of a flying 20/20 now. Still I had fun with it.

Also, LevelUp continues to rehab the store. Check out the new storage and displays....

Round 1 vs D&T

Game 1- I screwed up on fetching for the land I needed. Seriously. I had a dark depths in hand, and I fetched a second copy instead of stage. Still, my deck decided I was a doofus and rewarded me with a top deck answer and got there by showing a Not of This World.

Game 2- I was too slow somehow? He was the beat down? I dunno, just didn't have the right answers lined up.

Game 3- I put down a turn one Pithing Needle naming wasteland.... that was a 50/50 guess, and I was punished because he had Karakas. Of course. 

Oh well- between match we jammed some other games with stupid decks I brought like Mono Red Sneak. While it crushed in one game, the second was a complete roffle-stomp by him. It was fun.

Round 2 vs 8-Cast

I honestly don't know how a turbo depths is supposed to win this game. They have so many flyers to block a single 20/20 for days. And it was reflective in the results.

Game 1- He kept a very risky hand and STILL got there not knowing I was on Rainbow Depths. I just couldn't produce the token fast enough.

Game 2- He just overwhelmed me with flyers I had no trample ability, no way to force things and all he had were answers- 1 of Karakas, Spellbomb, Foundry.... Sigh. 

So I was in the 0-2 category and dropped to head home. Rainbow depths can be EXTREMELY powerful, but it was not for me that night. I had fun. Jammed some extra games inbetween rounds. and generally glad to be out and about. 

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I've mostly convinced some buddies to hit up a local store to do the next pre-release. Oh, I am pumped! I haven't been to one since before COVID in store. (last one I blogged about was the Core 2020. So huh)

Trying out a new local I had never heard of until two weeks ago, but apparently been in the area for many years. Glad to give it a go- Gritty Goblin Games! 

Hopefully my merry band of idiots can assemble and make it a thing.