Back on the horse- weekly Legacy

I have been on a losing streak, bigly. Having been on vacation recently and being sick afterwards, I can't recall the last time I actually had a winning weekly record. Its been awful. Last week's "lets try burn?" attempt was the top deck gods peeing all over my deck. I've also tried B/U Shadow, and even turbo Depths. None of them got me to a winning record. Seriously.

Before deciding to run r/w initiative stompy, I sent my list to a fellow player and Legacy Pit regular to see what he thought. He was running a VERY similar list. My big difference was using Chancellor of the Annex instead of more threats. My belief behind that is Legacy is a one drop/turn one format. Anything to cause them to stumble or not being able to react to my aggressive play- gives me at least a turn.
I also think Archon of Emeria is criminally underplayed in Legacy. Just throws a lot of monkey wrenches in to crafted theories and plots.

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Round 1 vs Infect

My opening hand was EXACTLY what I wanted to see- Chancellor, Chrome Mox, and Sol Land. He was on the play- but my pre-game effect threw everything he wanted off. 

Game 2- I think StP came in, and Magus?. He played 3 Noble Hierarch, and I controlled the rest of his board with StP and Solitude. Fairly sure he was new to Legacy, as when I got the initiative, he had to read it... and I proceeded to stomp face.

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Round 2 vs Reanimator  (Kevin K)

This was a matchup I had no clue how it was going to go. I knew he was on it because I saw him playing it after my round 1 ended. He could have a HUGELY explosive start, but I had some answers main deck in Solitude, Karakas, and Touch the Spirit Realm. 

I was on the play which, didn't feel all that nice... but we had both mulligan'd. 

Game 1 was silly. I had a couple answers, but I got very lucky when two things happened- #1 he Unmasked Himself instead of me, and I had a Touch to remove his Atraxa, Grand Unifier. I top decked a second Touch the Spirit Realm being able to remove his Serra's Emissary which was on creature. At that point I had two Solitudes in the bin, he attempted to Exhume things, to which I just brought back Solitude, answered his things... and took over. 

Game 2

You know you are going well, when you mulligan a 1 lander to then find 5 lands, bottom 1, and top deck your one of Containment Priest. Yeah, it was that sort of day. He removed my Containment Priest, but then re-animated it for a threat. Shrug, whatcya gonna do?

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Round 3 vs Kevin B (4cc)

We were both 2-0 and at table 1, I told him I am fine with splitting, or playing, or splitting and playing for fun. He chose for the later, which sealed me in for playing for free the next two weeks. Which is my goal, play for free for a while. Huzzah!

I had just seen Kevin play against another r/w Initiative deck, and saw it go 4cc in a long protracted game 3. 

Game 1- I got there, when I had a Caves out with 2 +1/+1 counters on it. A bit of back and forth with Archon providing a huge problem early, and a Chancellor giving me a good push off the block. 

Game 2- Thought I had it until I lost to Supreme Verdict. Which honestly I forgot he was running. Oh well.

Game 3- I kept a hand on the back of a possible turn 2 Magus, but I never found a red source. I could have won, I think. But instead, I left hold three red spells and an empty board of no creatures/answers. My turn on Chalice wasn't good enough to spit over.