It is impossible to play a control deck in Legacy without a concrete understanding of the metagame, and the role in which each deck fits within it. There is simply too much range of strategy to cover all bases at once, without knowing specifically what aspects of strategy you must contain in any given matchup. A player new to Legacy is unlikely to pick up a deck like Landstill and pilot it with success, because control in Legacy is extremely complex.
Tarmogoyf dramatically changes the metagame of Legacy, and it changes the most important matchup in Legacy: Goblins versus Threshold. In this article I want to look at both, and make some claims about what is, and isn’t, the best deck to win a tournament.
Legacy is currently experiencing significant development. Christopher Coppola analyzes these changes and predicts how they will affect the format in the future.
At Grand Prix: Columbus, the world and his wife were gunning for Flash. Now that particular bugbear has been banished from the format, the search is on for the next defining Legacy deck. Today, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin brings us the deck that he claims is the strongest, most resilient Legacy deck in the format today.
Legacy is home to a surprising number of decks that can kill on the first turn, with Belcher at the forefront in speed and reliability. In contrast, U/W/B Fish has all the tools it needs to shut down combo decks like Belcher and contain their secondary attempts. See how tactics change when the most important decisions happen before either player has a turn!
In another installment of Dan’s development series of Legacy Threshold, Dan explores the inclusion of Tarmogoyf in the deck, supporting his analysis with many detailed practice games.
With the banning of Flash, the unbanning of Mind over Matter and Replenish, and the release of Future Sight, it is as if Legacy is completely new. This article is simply my observations and conclusions while navigating the new Legacy.
Christopher Coppola recounts the tumultuous events of the last month, and advises the community on how best to proceed. Included are recommendations for the DCI.
When it comes to the big Constructed tournaments, Adrian Sullivan can always be relied upon to produce something special. Grand Prix: Columbus was no different, and Adrian rocked up the leaderboard with a spicy deck of his own design. It utilizes the silver bullet strategy powered by Enlightened Tutor, and it took him all the way to 32nd place! With Flash likely to disappear from view pretty soon, the future is very bright for Club Gitmo…
With Grand Prix: Columbus not consigned to the history books, and folk across the globe wondering What Now For Flash, Stephen takes a look at the aftermath from the latest Legacy GP from both a personal and analytical standpoint. HE questions the very nature of why we play — the Fun Factor — and then proposes some healthy ideas under which the Legacy format can continue to grow. All this, and talk of unbannings too!
It’s official: Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa is no fan of Eternal formats. Still, this didn’t stop him rocking up to Grand Prix: Columbus with a supercharged sixty and a strong will to win. He finished a creditable 24th with a Flash deck of his own devising… and even though the current format is now largely dead, it’s interesting to hear his thoughts on the future of Legacy and the Flash deck itself.
Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. You ready for a whole weekend’s worth of video compressed into just twenty minutes? But that’s not all – I have full deck tech rundowns from U.S. National Champ Paul Cheon’s “Bigger Fish”, Zac Hill and Richard Feldman’s B/G Skyshroud Poacher deck, and the Grand Prix champ Steve Sadin’s Billy Moreno-designed Flash Counterbalance deck!
Fresh out of the 883-person event in Columbus, Doug Linn looks back on this weekend’s Grand Prix and sifts through the data for tech and commentary. Find out how useful the information from the GP will be and look at the apparent futility of testing Legacy. Trace the historical development of the Flash deck with insider information and see how many pros he name-checks! All this and more in what Doug promises is the last article about Flash he will write.
I was not the only person who believed that the existence of Flash was good for the metagame. It set a very clear bar that all rogue decks had to be able to beat, and it weeded out many of the more random combo decks both by virtue of being “better” in the abstract and because of the necessity to try and hate it out. After Future Sight it probably gets ridiculous, but in Columbus it was simply a very good but very vulnerable combo deck that defined the metagame without unhealthily warping it.
As you may have read in the official coverage, Richard Feldman and Zac Hill took a fresh-looking Trinity Green deck to Grand Prix: Columbus… and Richard came very close to making the final table. Today’s Deep Analysis looks at the creation of the deck, and provides a game-by-game rundown of the Grand Prix action!
