Mid June legacy update

Andy and Rob fighting the good fight

My schedule worked out such that I was able to head up to Titan Games on Tuesday night instead of my regular Wednesday at Level Up. Its a bit different as they go 4 rounds, and a winning record only gets payout. A tad different than I was used to. Wound up taking a close version of a G-Post deck that did well at 4 Seasons Spring in Bologna. (yes it is not listed, got it from the Discord. Felt better for fighting the field than on-line)

Round 1- Got Delvered. Specifically Stifled. That sucked hard. And god I just don't like R/U aggro that has game against everything all the time.
0-1

Round 2 vs 8 Cast
Took it down, but it was more like his deck didn't do anything and I had everything. Its what happens. I recall in two games I cast an uncontested Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger.
1-1

Round 3 vs Jeskai control (Paul Lynch)
I've played against him with this before, and it did not go well, and it continued to go poorly. It was like my decisions generally didn't matter. Which sucks.
1-2 and drop.

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After falling on my face too often to Delver and Jeskai control with G-post, I decided to consider new deck for Legacy Pit Open. While I would LOVE to play G-post, I don't think it is good enough for me to justify registering it. Unless some meta shifts where to occur, I still am not entirely sure what to play. I am somewhat interested in D&T, but not looking forward to shuffling 80 cards.
There is very much a chance things will be unsettled from Dominaria United.  In which case, I would totally bust out Sneak and Show. That deck THRIVES on change. 

In the mean time- gonna jam a g/u OmniTell deck (not entirely unclose to this winning deck) this week at LevelUp. I think I need to remove some cuteness in favor of filtering. (good bye Stifle and Endurance)

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So glad I didn't spend time picking up a copy of Alloraurus Sheppard.  The price dropped by about half with the announcement that it was being re-printed in Double Masters 2022. Will pick up a copy soon I think. 

Also, whats with the Green Sun's Zenith reprint? Its banned in Modern, and almost exclusively played in Legacy. It wasn't screaming for a reprint.... weird.

Did I dump my Commander 2019 and 2020 sets at the right time? As the Dockside Extortionist got re-print at mythic, maybe. Lets take a quick review of my trade with Card Kingdom:

Pre re-print value: $403.00
Post re-print value: $409.50

So I actually lost money by dumping when I did, exactly a month ago.

However, lets compare what I got:

Pre-value (mid May): $379.02
Post-value: (mid June): $405.72

So, once again... I pulled the trigger at the right time because it would have cost more to get the same set of cards. Most notably, the City of Traitors went up by $30. No clue why.

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I went and hung out with some friends last night. Jammed A BUNCH of games. When in the middle of it all I realized I had all 5 colors in mono decks.
D&T- white
Dragon Stompy- red
Black depths- Black
G-Post- Green
8-cast- Blue

Did NOT intend on doing that... but funny.

Compare and contrast- the proxy vs real Tabby.

Lastly- I sold the last of my sports cards I had sitting in a bin. Took most of the money generated and bought a bunch of the cards I wanted off my trade list. I still have several things to trade for- I am in no rush for them.

A month of recap(s)

 I've been slacking, mostly because of crap play/results. I had one good night in the past month? Seriously.

Lets, what decks have I played at the weekly so far?

Mono-Red Dragon Stompy (aka Tokyo drift)

Mono-Black Depths

G-Post

    Guess which one actually produced a winning record for me? Oh right, Post. Good god.

I went through my texts with my buddy Andy, because thats how I recall what happened. Post was the only reasonable results, going 2-0-1. Splitting last round because I was super tired.
Mono-red gave me all the wrong sides of the deck. Couldn't draw my way out of a wet paper bag to be honest. It was awful. 0-2 drop bad. No game wins bad.

Mono-black helped me beat R/U Aggro (aka Delver) but then just fall on it's sword vs D&T and ANT of all things. Admittedly ANT is a HORRIBLE match-up. 

Sigh.

    Moving forward, I am going to start testing g-post for The Legacy Pit open for October. Gotta figure out if this is the deck I need to be running or not. I need to get reps in basically. I've been running into_plays' "standard" build for a bit. But I am VERY curious to run this version for testing at least. I like the SB plan a bit better as it can deal with Magus of the Moon more. (which seems to be growing in popularity) 

One of the reasons I want to run this deck? Being able to borrow a Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. A card that I would never reasonably own. 

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Acquisitions:

I finally pulled the trigger and shipped my 2019 and 2020 Commander sets off to Card Kingdom for credit. And what I did I pick up for that?

1. City of Traitors, EX
2. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, EX
3. Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (Borderless) x2
4. Boseiju,Who Endures
5. Magda, Brazen Outlaw x8
   

I did something I never thought I would do- buy a 4th copy of City of Traitors. (posted here about the first three for $360) While I do think Ulamog is due for a reprint, I wanted to at least have a legal copy for G-Post if I decided to run in a local tournament and not the weekly where proxies are all good. I also wanted a second copy of Boseiju for either a different deck or the secondary build of G-post I might run. Good to get now instead of later. 

The Magda is nothing more than a longer term hold. I do think she is interesting an unique in her abilities. If I am able to double my money- huzzah. Gonna take an EDH thing to make her good though. Ha.

Also picked up a Commander pre-release kit for the fun. No other reason. As I say in the video, I like pre-releases, and I like draft... but the idea of a pre-release draft, NO thank you.
Also, thanks again to Gritty Goblin Games for being awesome. 

There you go- me opening a pre-release kit and 2 set boosters. Still no clue what was good other than Tasha. LOL. (just reviewed the cards, and HOLY CRAP I got housed.)