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In this league the “must attack” on DRC was relevant, making the pharaoh even better.

Loss of life has occasionally been relevant. Shadowspear is already in the deck as tutorable lifegain and is...

I finished the first vengeful pharoah league to a 5-0.

MUs:
Ouat painter LWW
Oops all spells WW
TES LWW
UR delver WLW
RUG Midrange WW

I’m currently going about 60% in leagues which feels good. Bad matchups are 8 cast and moon stompy as predicted. Pharoah has been a great spirit replacement; I looted it with converter to kill a...

Alternatively I could try Haunted Dead. Although not very powerful, it is easy to activate and provides roles other than just a finisher. It is another discard outlet for currency converter and it...

Nether spirit and bloodghast were ok but a bit underwhelming in testing. Should I try kroxa? Kroxa over uro mainly because the deck is base black instead of base green and already has a lot of...

Bloodghast looked pretty great in that league. Perhaps I should play those in loam pox over nether spirit. The timing of landfall as opposed to upkeep trigger is also better with currency converter....

Shadowspear is our “reach”. I am not sure if we need much more. Cursed scroll not killing DRC and murktide makes it significantly worse. I don’t want more clunky 1 drops, that is why I cut...

I am very busy with IRL stuff but managed to get a few games in. Some of the other pilots don’t like decay since it misses murktide, but I value the flexibility highly in a deck without cantrips....

Yes as I have said to you numerous times, karn is a “big game” card that shouldn’t be in the same deck as smallpox. I think your karn lists would do much better with hymn or chalice than smallpox.
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Those are decent points. However both smallpox and Liliana are symmetrical so I don’t see how they are going any faster. If ravens crime is unprofitable, I can always loot with the ability instead....

We have 2 Boseiju that we can recur and 2 witherbloom command. Surely that will be enough? If it isn’t we can always cut the 4th converter for a needle or the 4th loam for another command....

There has been a lot of hype about currency converter in lands recently. Loam pox is a lands-adjacent deck that appears to use it better. Liliana OTV and Smallpox synergize much better with a discard...

IMO, not playing Urza’s saga in your fair non-blue deck is just wrong. It’s the best printing for non-blue legacy decks in a long time. Not the best with small pox but it even synergizes with rack.
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A prominent poxer and ?owner? Of the legacy pit got pox irl recently.

Stay safe people and remember to get your CDC approved Tajuru Preserver

Yah I believe it was self described as monoBlack dead guy ale, which is probably more appropriate.

I am not going to say I am a great pox player. But I found the pure control variants to feel terrible since they didn’t actually win the topdeck war that they are designed to get the game into....

In the finals game I watched discard into 20/20 would have won the game if he was not super tired. I think it was 5 am in Dubai or wherever he was and so he didn’t cash in immediately. On the ops...

This slow-depths-ish list did extremely well in the mtg paper legacy invitational.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/legacy-league-2021-08-28#bwangeroo_-

Loam pox has been doing decently well recently. Is that the way forward for the deck? Witherbloom...

Not everyone agrees that karn makes sense in pox. Karn is very much a “big game” card and smallpox is the ultimate “small game” card. You need to pick 1 game plan.

Smallpox, Liliana, wasteland...

Do you mean Sudden Edict?

The cook with the really long name is a recursive 1 mana 3/3 which draws a card if you can enable it. She also turns dead discard into lifegain or removal. DGA is performing much better than pox,...

My point was more that counting playing a land for turn as 0 for 1ing yourself, like it was a lotus petal, is absurd.

But I could get on the “pox is unredeemably bad” train.

By that logic dark ritual Liliana is committing 4 cards to the opponents 1, and will only start to recoup CA once they play a creature or you r empty handed and they are not (ie several turns down...

The idea is that it lets you disrupt on the same turn that you play your engine. It could “fair” monoR reanimating, going all in on it to clear the way for dark ritual phyrexian arena.
Another...