Legacy Resources - Articles and Stuff
In the past couple of months, I've noticed that there has been a serious lack of knowledge and understanding of basic magic theory. I'm going to post some links to various articles dealing with multiple aspects of Magic theory, from metagaming, tempo, card advantage, and (rogue) deckbuilding.
Some of these articles will just be giving names and titles to concepts you already may understand simply because they are inherent parts of the game. In doing so, it will allow you to see when such concepts are occuring in game and how to apply them while playing. When reading some of these articles, you'll experience many a moment of "Oh, well, that make sense," and "Well, duh." Regardless, knowing and understanding these concepts will make you a better player.
Without further ado, the articles.
Basic Stratagy
The Way of the Sideboard
by Rob Dougherty
The Basics Of Playing The Game: Paranoia Is Good
By Peter Jahn
Intermediate Concepts
Who's the Beatdown
by Mike Flores
Clear the Land and the Fundamental Turn
by Zvi Mowshowitz
The Art of the Mulligan
by Ken Krouner
The Art Of The Mulligan: Eight Case Studies
by Ken Krouner
Advanced Concepts
Philosophy of Fire
by Mike Flores
Advanced Stratagy: Investment
by Mike Flores
Tempo
Tempo and Card Advantage
by Eric "Danger" Taylor
Tempo is Really Interesting
by Mike Flores
Metagaming
Sullivan Library: How to do your own Metagame Analysis
by Adrian Sullivan
Finding the Tinker Deck
by Mike Flores
Rogue Deckbuilding
Basic Rogue Deck Design: Natural Strategy, Anti-Strategy, and Strategy Superiority
General "How to get better by not being totally irrational"
The Danger of Cool Things
by Chad Ellis
Is this your Card?
by The Ferret
The Next Level
by Mike Flores
Play to Win
(not about magic, but generally improving)
Some of these articles are long. Read them anyways. They're all very good, and they'll all improve your game.
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Re: [Articles] - Required Reading
Download Legacy Decklists Here!
There's a whole lot of competitive legacy decks out there. I think we would all benefit (especially people new to legacy) if we could download a package with all of them, to simply copy and paste directly into Magic Workstation. Silverdragon initially put together 50+ competitive legacy decklists for people to download and have instant access to, and people have been steadily adding to it...
Here's the link to the most current and up to date compilation....
http://www.mediafire.com/
I want anyone that wants to add a deck or update a particular decklist, to be able to contribute to or make changes to the compilation, and update the rar package. So I'm posting the username and password to the mediafire account.
Username: legacydecks@gmail.com
Password: mtgthesource
Simply go to mediafire.com, and login with the above information, and you can modify, then reupload the "Legacy Decks.rar" file with the additions and changes you made to the decklists.
The idea is to have the community be in charge of policing and updating decklists itself. It would help if you add a date after the name of any deck you modify or add to the zip file.
Re: Could we collaborate to compile a download set of legacy decklists for MWS & OCTG
Sadly Starcitygames only does MTGO and Apprentice deckformats so it takes some effort to convert those lists into .mwdeck
Luckily I already did some work with http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/l...of_Legacy.html
If anyone wants to download in .mwdeck format, here's a .rar folder:
http://rapidshare.com/files/38779979...decks.rar.html
Re: Could we collaborate to compile a download set of legacy decklists for MWS & OCTG
Thank you so much. That's a fantastic compilation. :)
I think your compilation is already a great starting point for the community pulling something like this off.
The people who play the decks regularly and have top 8ed (or atleast regularly compete with their lists) at tournaments should feel encouraged to posts their decklists below to be added to or included in place of suboptimal lists already included in the compilation. I will be happy to add them myself. I would submit my Mono-Blue Control, Death and Taxes and Pox lists, but I think that would be unfair as I never top 8ed with my list. I would rather someone who has submit their Pox, Mono-Blue Control, Death and Taxes and Enchantress lists instead.
Re: Could we collaborate to compile a download set of legacy decklists for MWS & OCTG
I'm surprised that Silverdragon's post got so little attention/responses.
It's a FANTASTIC resource.
Seriously a 15 second download later and you have 50 of legacy's best and most competitive decks (with only a few legacy staple decks that were unfortunately left out or were poorly built), at your fingertips.
You can test against them, share them with friends that are curious about legacy or are just starting out, try the decks out yourselves to decide what deck to build next, the possiblities are endless.