FWIW I like Hymn against Elves and Liliana is fine in small numbers. It depends on your blue card count also. That said, I haven't played that matchup in a long time.
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FWIW I like Hymn against Elves and Liliana is fine in small numbers. It depends on your blue card count also. That said, I haven't played that matchup in a long time.
I played this at the Invi:
4 Exploration
4 Gamble
4 Mox Diamond
4 Life from the Loam
3 Punishing Fire
3 Crop Rotation
2 Manabond
4 Wasteland
FOW is likely better in the mirror than Thoughtseize, but both are poor. The matchup between any midrange blue deck is about board presence and being able to grind out long games. Both FOW and...
I typically don't keep in Force of Wills in the mirror and instead prioritize being ahead on board in order to attack their planeswalkers. I like Pulse because it's something you can dig for if...
I do not expect them to board in Defense Grid against my 3-4 FOWs. If they do, I'm fine with them having more semi-dead cards like Leyline of Sanctity that they can cantrip into.
I would not...
From my Somerset list:
+ 2 Golgari Charm, 2 Thoughtseize, 2 Flusterstorm, 1 Thoughtseize, 1 Liliana of the Veil
- 4 Abrupt Decay, 1 Ancestral Vision, 2 Baleful Strix, 1 Shardless Agent
I think...
Depends what you are trying to beat. You could run my shell (which aims to be solid against everything) or you play Lejay's list with no discard which is better against fair decks.
Golgari Charm + Liliana, Jace, and discard are the only real answers. I had Sower of Temptation in my sideboard for a little bit also. Obviously it can be difficult to deal with, but you also have...
Did I ever say Flusterstorm was bad? Your reading comprehension needs work.
Writing about my own take on this deck this week. I hope you approve. :)
When most decks are 2% of the metagame, it's like a metagame doesn't exist which is basically what Legacy is. Sure, there are the top three decks that comprise 20-40% of the field, but that's still...
RUG and Deathblade are all about board advantage. While card advantage is of secondary importance, which is why people want to side out FOW, the thing that matters most is not falling behind on...
Chill is for more than those two decks. I like it vs Sneak and Show too. They typically have red sideboard cards like Blood Moon or REB.
RUG-Baleful Strix/Liliana
ANT/SNT-Hymn to Tourach
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Read the rest of the posts in the thread. I played Chill for a variety of archetypes, not just Burn. Burn isn't that bad of a matchup anyway.
Flusterstorm is obviously good vs combo, but I probably wouldn't side out Shardless Agent unless you didn't have any discard. Buuuut at that point you're a BUG deck with no discard and just trying to...
Because drawing multiples is bad, much like the discard, but at least discard is a one-for-one trade. Just because we have card advantage doesn't mean we are ever up enough cards to just throw away...
Loam seems bad in a field of Deathrite Shamans. I usually board in Nihil Spellbomb against decks that can Loam me anyway. That card is typically ineffective.
Sure, sometimes you can Waste people...
Vs Shaheen I probably did:
+ 3 Nihil, 1 Pulse
- 1 Hymn, 3 FOW
Strix is not good against them but I'd rather have a cycler than extra discard spells.
I just wanted to chime in on the differences between mine and Lejay's list.
1) Baleful Strix is good vs other Goyf decks (and can block Emrakul/Griselbrand if they are dead on board the next turn;...
It only goes to the next phase after both players pass on an empty stack.
Hey y'all. The Legacy MOCS is coming up so I decided to buy Dredge online. Since I was only a few cards short of Manaless Dredge, I decided to try that as well and was pleasantly surprised.
I...
The Crypts are Tarnished Citadels.
Karakas deals with their Karakas. If you are all uppity about running a colorless land, consider that I put it in my deck in a spell slot. There are anti-hate cards like Thoughtseize, Force of Will,...
It was basically the best card of all time. With Animate Dead, it protects itself just by casting an instant (and returning the Animate). Against crazy decks with tons of hateful permanents...
I played City of Traitors because of the things you said -- it helps fight Spell Pierce and Daze and allows you to cast Show and Tell faster.
After sideboarding, you are a different deck and your...