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Top does not necessarily take forever. Nevertheless, even if Top is handled very fast, a couple seconds every turn, often multiple times a turn if paired with fetchlands or Counterbalance, adds up...

Two minutes is seriously extremely long, especially if these two minutes occur every turn, or multiple times a turn if a fetchland is involved in the process. A two minute Top falls under slow play...

... which is something I seriously do not understand. Blood Moon hits Turn 2 in Legacy. Threshold never ever wants to fetch a Turn 1 Forest, especially on the draw (shuts down Daze and prevents Turn...

Well I must admit I did not check the first pages of these threads, since one would assume the most recent content is found in the last pages.


Once again, because it seems that you did not read...

Stifle and Wasteland does not make an engine, as in cards that fuel an archetype. These are simply nice tools decks can abuse, and the reason why we did not present them in the article. Pretty much...

I am afraid you completely missed the point of the article Anusien. This article is about engines, not archetypes optimizations. The lists posted in the article are simple examples we use to...

... and this is exactly the reason why I do not run 4 Crucible.

The synergy between Crucible of Worlds and Wasteland, Smokestack or any other card might be very good, this is not a reason for...

Goblins has been covered in Part 1 of the article.
This Part 2 focuses on non tribal deck engines.



Survival of the Fittest could have been mentioned at some point, but the card is quite...

As I already stated, consistency is not related to the amount of 4-ofs you play. Playing only 2 Crucible of Worlds does not decrease consistency.


I run all the hard-lock pieces as a 4 of. That...

I usually dont reply to blatant and pointless flames, but still, since you do not seem to understand how Stax works ...


First thing is here, a turn one Crucible of Worlds does nothing relevant....

Crucible of Worlds is definitly not key to the deck's strategy. Smokestack is. Chalice of the Void is. Trinisphere is. Not Crucible. There are plenty matchups where you do not want to draw Crucible...

Stax existed long long before Crucible of Worlds was printed, and was successful without Crucible of Worlds. Crucible of Worlds is obviously a nice tool in the deck, but as any other card there, it...

Part 2 of the article I wrote with Stephen Menendian (should be up tomorrow) features a Blue/Black Stax build using The Abyss as a game ending lock component against Aggro-Control and Aggro. It is a...

When I discussed Elves! with local Legacy players, ones that are hardcore in the format and play nothing else but Legacy, they either laughed at the idea of going turn 1 Llanowar Elves, or mentioned...

Card availability is a good reason for playing Elves over Storm Combo, and a lot of the GP players will be coming there with their Legacy decks. Elves is overall more consistent than Storm Combo, and...

Sylvan Librairy is actually fairly bad, it is a very atrocious topdeck and will have little impact on the game because the overall skeleton is extremely life consuming. Furthermore, the best card to...

None of these involved grabbing Life from the Loam. You are also always getting the lucky hands of Mox Diamond + double land + a land to pitch + Intuition. What if you can only cast Intuition on Turn...

This costs 8 (!!) mana to simply put an artifact on the top of your deck. You need another turn to draw the tutored card. If you can afford wasting a full turn and 8 mana to get a card, then you...

Tezzeret needs to stay in play for an entiere turn before you can combo off. If Tezzeret takes 2 or more damage during this turn, then your combo does nothing and you are left with 2 pointless cards...

Intuition for Life from the Loam, Academy Ruins and Engineered Explosives is very bad overall. This setup is worthless early game because it is too mana intensive, and pointless in the late game...

If you are going to play a spell that kills creatures without hitting Tarmogoyf, you might as well simply play Firespout. Blowing lands is not that good if you are not able to deal with Aether Vial...

Of course you need to be prepared for Goblins. I'm running Mishra's Factories, Magus of the Tabernacle and Engineered Explosives mainboard already, and the sideboard will have a lot of cards devoted...

4eak - It is still under testing with a good amount of blank cards for pure testing purposes. I will try to post it when I have more time, but I am very busy with other stuff and do not really have...

I've been playing my UW and UWg Stax builds for a *very* long while (GP Lille prep, 2005) and I have never ever ran Propaganda or Ghostly Prison. If you want to stop a Tarmogoyf or Empty the Warrens...

With Counterbalance locked on a 2CC (on Chalice at 2), you can still use Chain of Vapor, Cabal Therapy, Raven Familiar, Force of Will, Aluren and Man-o'-War. This is really all you need if you are...