Death’s Shadow is a UB deck that is centered around playing cards that cause you to lose life in order to play an early and big Death’s Shadow. There isn’t much of a comprimise in the rest of the deck since most of the Legacy staples already do damage to yourself or have an exact...
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Special Guest A few words on Parker Southwick: (Twitter: @mr_usea | MTGO: iKhada) Parker Southwick (known online as iKhada) started playing Magic in 2018, right after the release of Dominaria. After starting out with a few less competitive Modern decks, he eventually found (and fell in love ...
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Lands is a deck based on using the best utility lands that Legacy has to offer and plays 34 of them! That’s a lot for any format. Lands plays many 1-of lands as a tutor package for Crop Rotation and the ability to reuse them or find them with Life from the Loam. This package...
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Special Guest A few words on Jarvis Yu: (Twitter: @jkyu06 | MTGO: Samwise_GeeGee) Jarvis Yu works during the day as a mathematical statistician for the United States government. He has four Grand Prix Top 8’s (Seattle 2015 (Legacy), Columbus 2016 (Legacy), New Jersey 2017 (Standard), ...
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Reanimator is a type of deck that has seen play in every format since the early days of Magic’s history. The strategy is to put an expensive creature into the graveyard and then put it into play with cards like Reanimate, Exhume, and Animate Dead. The creatures they are trying to ...
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Special Guest A few words on John Shindledecker: (Twitter: @shindymtg | MTGO:shindy) John Shindledecker (“Shindy”) has been playing Magic since the age of 13 (original Theros). When I picked up Legacy for the first time a few years into my Magic career, I immediately fell in love ...
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8 Cast is a deck named appropriately for playing eight cards like Thoughtcast in four copies of Thoughtcast and four copies of Thought Monitor. It’s a slower artifact deck that aims to out card advantage the opponent with eight copies of cards that draw two cards, Emry, Lurker of the ...
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With the Legacy Showcase coming this weekend, understanding the metagame is critical. This is the start of a quarterly tier list article series. Methodology Everyone builds a tier list differently. I have chosen to build mine based on MTGO Challenge results (As collected by Joe Dyer and the ...
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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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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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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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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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