Yeah, I was happy to see that rule change, even if it generally helped me because I was good at remembering triggers and tracking board states. That rule always seemed overly harsh.
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Yeah, I was happy to see that rule change, even if it generally helped me because I was good at remembering triggers and tracking board states. That rule always seemed overly harsh.
Spirit's best asset back then was the random game win when your opponent still drew their cards as normal. This was key to David McDarby winning SCG Portland in 2014.
Vs. 12-Post:
On his main...
A few things: Terminus and Council's Judgment made Hexproof not matter, True-Name Nemesis walled it, and Monastery Mentor outclassed Thrun as a threat. Thrun's already gone, but if he wasn't, Oko...
Veil of Summer is a big one. I personally don't feel Hymn is even playable with Veil of Summer in the format, so our perspectives are pretty different on this point.
Yeah, I would never ban this card.
Just for the sake of discussion, what does WOTC need to do to keep a good card from being co-opted by the blue shell? On the face of it, RG is a pretty...
Your salad logic is airtight, but can one really be a burger enthusiast repping McDonald's?
I have to beg to differ here, Hanni. I don't recall people complaining about brewing in Legacy until maybe 2012 or 2013, and I think that correlates to the naturally increasing power level of the...
The Big Zoo offshoot did, in fact, run these cards. I seem to recall IBA running a small/classic Zoo list with Teegs, too, so it had nothing to do with willingness to think outside the box. Big Zoo...
To be fair, there is no end to ban talks. There will always be a subset of players unhappy with any given environment. If you want to explore that to its extreme, go back to the archives and look at...
http://78.media.tumblr.com/59f31bef27ee2c098d91858c752d19ad/tumblr_n2duvqq6lG1s9rpajo1_r2_500.gif
Last weekend.
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?32203-WA-Mox-Boarding-House-1K-Doubleheader-Weekend
First tournament: 72 players. Won by Steel Stompy, which The Source said wasn't...
This may be the most clueless thing I've ever read on The Source. There are a lot of reasons that Miracles is the best deck, but trying to blame it on Goblins' underperformance is comical. The format...
Personally, I really liked Carsten Kotter's think piece on this topic a couple years back:
http://www.starcitygames.com/article/30039_What-Is-Legacy-Part-1.html...
I'm predicting no changes, but this is my personal wish list for some point in the format's future:
BANNED
Sensei's Divining Top, Show and Tell, Griselbrand, True-Name Nemesis.
UNBANNED
Mind...
Flood Plain wouldn't be playable because Wasteland would be even better. Lands that enter the battlefield tapped are very difficult to justify in a fast format. Fetchlands provide a buffer against...
Goblin Recruiter is arguably faster than Sensei's Divining Top, since you trigger it once and you can preplan types of piles, just like with Doomsday. With Top, the game state keeps changing, and the...
Joe is an exceptional Magic player, period, but this is a relevant historical note:
http://blog.mtgdeals.com/oarsman/rebuilding-legacy-charbelcher/
Maybe already happened?
Nick Patnode, 2011
http://tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=5873&iddeck=42572
Luis Viciano, 2007 (no Vials in this one)
http://tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=2744&iddeck=38060
If the deck has enough blue cards to support Force of Will, it's generally considered a blue deck. Also, if 88% of that top 8 is blue, where's the point of "too blue"? Have we reached it yet? Is...
Nope, mana could not be floated that way at that time.
This is a factor, but it was also about high-profile results. Reanimator won GP Madrid, and there was an ANT mirror in the semis (with...
Voice of reason here: If the dragon's sole function is to cause draws, why do any of you want it unbanned?
WOTC basically already did this, which is why Stone Rain is never coming back. If you want to blow up a land, you're going to be paying 4 or more for it.
For Legacy specifically, the best land...
You're thinking of Holy Light. I don't see how that card is playable in a deck that wants Thalia on the board whenever possible.
Did you watch the match? The situation wasn't that TNN was a brick wall. It was that TNN was going to be unblockable and untargetable, making Bauman's draws dead. Are you really going to try to...
I wouldn't say Mitchell's board was commanding. If True-Name Nemesis had been a different creature, Bauman could have attacked, killed Delver with the Sword of Fire and Ice, drawn a Swords to...