Special Guest A few words on Dmitriy Butakov: (Twitter: @butakov_mtg | MTGO:butakov) Dmitriy Butakov is a pro Magic player and two-time MOCS champion based out of Siberia. A long-time MTGO grinder, Dmitriy has four Legacy Challenge T8s this year, all on 8-Cast. What main deck tools does 8-Cast ...
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Is Legacy in a healthy place finally? It has been a long enough wait, but players have been generally excited to engage with the format again! With the changes brought about with the most recent Banned & Restricted announcement and the release of Phyrexia: All Will Be One, new life has been ...
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Since the initiative mechanic has been released there have been many different decks trying to utilize it. Mono-white, Esper control, mono-black, and now Gruul decks have attempted to leverage the mechanic. Gruul Initiative is a red-green stompy deck playing eight copies of initiative creatures ...
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Despite the recent appearance of Gruul Storm in Modern, it has been a couple years since Izzet Gifts Ungiven-based Storm has had much in the way of results. One part of this is the lack of new cards from the past few years of sets. For instance, the most significant new addition to the deck...
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It has been a few weeks since the banning of Expressive Iteration and White Plume Adventurer. In that time, the Legacy Showcase Qualifier happened. With our own Bryant Cook qualified for the tournament, locking in a list became important. Bryant played the list below to a ninth-place finish on ...
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Final Cephalid Breakfast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Lotus Petal Lotus Petal Dark Ritual Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Badlands Mox Opal Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan While the pair of Mishra’s Bauble represents a pair of redraws, we need a hand with more of a plan ...
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Special Guest A few words on Andrew Ahern: Andrew Ahern is a NYC-metro area local who has been playing Legacy since 2018. An avid deckbuilder (his first Legacy deck was a Worldgorger Dragon homebrew), Andrew has become locally famous his pile of Gruul cards that (until recently) haven’t ...
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Welcome readers, to a new Legacy! Wizards of the Coast announced the banning of two cards from the Legacy format earlier this month: Expressive Iteration and White Plume Adventurer. The rationale for these changes was to take the two dominant decks of Legacy and move them more into step with ...
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Cephalid Breakfast is an Esper combo deck that is based around Cephalid Illusionist. When Cephalid Illusionist is targeted by either a Shuko or Nomads en-Kor then three cards will be milled into the graveyard. This will be repeated until the entire deck has been milled into the graveyard. In ...
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As the Pioneer format has come into its own over the past couple years, one deck in particular has been at the top as the premier combo deck of the format. That deck is Lotus Field Combo. The main engine in the deck is to get a Lotus Field into play and then create a...
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On Monday, March 5th, Wizards of the Coast finally posted a ban update for Legacy. Expressive Iteration and White Plume Adventurer were banned in an attempt to bring URx Delver and Initiative decks more in line with the format. These are good changes and will change the Legacy metagame and how ...
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Final The EPIC Storm Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Ad Nauseam Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Mox Opal Dark Ritual Silence Burning Wish Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan What does this hand actually do? That’s typically an initial step in determining whether a hand is a ...
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