What Should I Play In My Metagame?

[Windmill]

Sounds strong. But doesn't it just fold to certain decks, like MUD or DnT? It feels like Storm really struggles with hate too. What version of storm would you suggest?

[.Ix]

MUD is really hard unless you're running 2 Hurkyl's and 1 rebuild in the board like Caleb Scherer does. D&T can be beaten with Dread of Night, Massacre, Disfigure, even Sulfur Elemental.

[Bobmans]

Currently this is my local meta, what should be good call here?

ANT
BUG Delver
Shardless BUG
Dark Maverick
Goblin (Dragon) Stompy
Grixis Pyromancer
Infect
Miracles Helm+RiP
Miracles Thopter
MUD
Painter

[monovfox]

Not looking for a metagame choice, I'm really just looking for a blue deck to expand to. I like the intense decision making trees of Death and Taxes (if you haven't played the deck I swear the decisions are ridiculously difficult when you get good at it). I liked playing Dread-Still a few years back (got to play one tournament), but it was a pretty specific metagame choice to counter UWR Delver. If there is something as magical as that deck, I would definitely like to play it.

[Deckerator]

I need your help. My meta is full of Aggro Loam. What decks are good against it?

[Varal]

I need your help. My meta is full of Aggro Loam. What decks are good against it?

Comboish decks like Burn, Sneak and Show, maybe Aluren.

[Deckerator]

Thanks fpr your reply.
Is Reanimator an option, too?
Now i am unsure about playing Reanimator or Sneak&Show?

Whats better?

[death]

If Deathrite Shaman didn't exist..

You might wanna check the Omniscience thread(s) also

[Dutch253]

So let's say in an unknown metagame what do I build? I own:
Forces
1 JTMS
1 U-Sea
1 Tundra
Many modern staples.
I've been considering building Esper mentor but am worried it's too janky. I just want to build a good solid first legacy deck!


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[keys]

So let's say in an unknown metagame what do I build? I own:
Forces
1 JTMS
1 U-Sea
1 Tundra
Many modern staples.
I've been considering building Esper mentor but am worried it's too janky. I just want to build a good solid first legacy deck!


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I wouldn't say it's too janky. Esper Mentor and Stoneblade are both good decks, and the colour combination will always be powerful even when it's slightly out of favour (as it is at the moment).

UW(b) Landstill is another option. You could build something like this:

4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Counterspell
2 Flusterstorm
2 Spell Snare
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Ponder
2 Supreme Verdict
4 Standstill
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Karakas
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
2 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Plains
4 Island


Possibly splashing black for Engineered Plague/Toxic Deluge and Thoughtseize in the SB.

[Karhumies]

What would you play in an expected meta full of D&T, ANT and Miracles (+ a few random decks as 1-ofs)?

[Zombie]

What would you play in an expected meta full of D&T, ANT and Miracles (+ a few random decks as 1-ofs)?

Infect, Hymn-Lili BUG with SB CA engines, RUG with Sulfur Elementals, Elves with Caverns and shittons of SB combo hate, maybe?

[Dutch253]

I wouldn't say it's too janky. Esper Mentor and Stoneblade are both good decks, and the colour combination will always be powerful even when it's slightly out of favour (as it is at the moment).

UW(b) Landstill is another option. You could build something like this:

4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Counterspell
2 Flusterstorm
2 Spell Snare
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Ponder
2 Supreme Verdict
4 Standstill
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Karakas
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
2 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Plains
4 Island


Possibly splashing black for Engineered Plague/Toxic Deluge and Thoughtseize in the SB.

This looks interesting. I'll have track down a primer for this deck (or something similar).


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[Frogmite228]

Playing in my first big Legacy tourny this month(SCG). Budget is about 2k. I am trying to decide between:

Dredge - Love Comboish decks, afraid of maybe too much gy hate. I don't know how much is typical in Legacy.
Goblins - I just love goblins
Belcher - Combo is fun but not sure if it can win through any distruption.
Merfolk - Seems like a decent fair deck
Elves - Like the combo/aggro hybrid
12 Post - Slamming big things
White Stax - I like prison decks
Moggcatcher Red - Love the gameplan but is this any better than any other Chalice/3Sphere deck?
Affinity - Is this just a bad aggro deck in this format? Any roguish versions I could try?

Which of these is a good intro to the format? Any other suggestions? I think I would hate Miracles and most blue based decks. My friend is playing reanimator so want to avoid that.

[Demonic_Attorney]

Playing in my first big Legacy tourny this month(SCG). Budget is about 2k. I am trying to decide between:

Dredge - Love Comboish decks, afraid of maybe too much gy hate. I don't know how much is typical in Legacy.
Goblins - I just love goblins
Belcher - Combo is fun but not sure if it can win through any distruption.
Merfolk - Seems like a decent fair deck
Elves - Like the combo/aggro hybrid
12 Post - Slamming big things
White Stax - I like prison decks
Moggcatcher Red - Love the gameplan but is this any better than any other Chalice/3Sphere deck?
Affinity - Is this just a bad aggro deck in this format? Any roguish versions I could try?

Which of these is a good intro to the format? Any other suggestions? I think I would hate Miracles and most blue based decks. My friend is playing reanimator so want to avoid that.

Out of all of those foregoing decks that you listed, I definitely would not recommend 12 Post or Dredge since you're new to legacy and want to get introduced into the format and get familiar with other decks in the metagame. Indeed, Dredge and 12 Post can be complicated to played, take familiarity with other staple/ tier 1 decks in the format and take a lot of skill to play compared to a lot of other much easier decks in legacy to pilot. Since you don't like any blue base decks (delver variants are good format starters to get use to the legacy metagame), why not play death & taxes, burn or Jund?

[Frogmite228]

Out of all of those foregoing decks that you listed, I definitely would not recommend 12 Post or Dredge since you're new to legacy and want to get introduced into the format and get familiar with other decks in the metagame. Indeed, Dredge and 12 Post can be complicated to played, take familiarity with other staple/ tier 1 decks in the format and take a lot of skill to play compared to a lot of other much easier decks in legacy to pilot. Since you don't like any blue base decks (delver variants are good format starters to get use to the legacy metagame), why not play death & taxes, burn or Jund?

I think Delver would be fun to try. What are the major differences between the Delvers? I'll look into DandT also.

[Douif]

What should I play in a meta infested by Eldrazi, Chalice.Deck in general (MUD, stompy variant, merfolk with md chalice etc..) and D&T ?

[jrsthethird]

What should I play in a meta infested by Eldrazi, Chalice.Deck in general (MUD, stompy variant, merfolk with md chalice etc..) and D&T ?

Shardless seems where you want to be.

[Douif]

Shardless seems where you want to be.

Okay, thanks for the advise.

[ironclad8690]

What is the best possible deck that you guys can think of vs Merfolk?

My local metagame is really small and I usually do pretty well with Shardless BUG or BUG Delver, but things have gotten dicey.

Our local Merfolk player has been on the Chalice of the Void version and now has some Warping Wails in his maindeck, and Misdirections/Back to Basics in his sideboard. Getting Ancestral Visions/Hymn to Tourachs Misdirected is getting really old, so I want to play something that just completely crushes Merfolk (ideally you would want to not care about TNN, not play Islands, not play too many 1 drops because of Chalice).

Any suggestions?