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We played legacy unleashed tournament with 10 teams I believe with twist being legal and my teammates played twist elves. Basically was just normal elves with a mind Twist in the sideboard because why not. Elves wouldn't even want the card. It's maybe a Nic Fit card, but idk
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I still have to admit that the whole thing was one hell of a PR gag and that people managed to spike the price for the cards as a result was jusz the icing. Of course we ended up with CFB making quite a dime with the hype.
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Elves is build to have 3+ mana by turn 2, just saying. As i mentioned before, there is no need for a quality analysis here or in the article, but deeming Elves & Co not worth mentioning while making a fuzz about Dark Ritual, isn't what I expect from any honest take on Mindtwist
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Yeah, but there's no way to cast Mind Twist for X>2 on turn 2 that I can think of barring ridiculous lines that would just win anyway like Birchlore, double Sentinel, Heritage Druid, Cradle.
You are correct about the Dark Ritual point though, if we are considering a card you'd have to look for new tech. Personally, I don't think there's a deck that wants a super-Hymn with their tons of available mana T2 more than, like, a bunch of other cards. Other than for the novelty, of course.
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I think the best place to use Mind Twist would be in decks that run Tomb/Diamond/Mana artifacts, or in control decks as a way to pull irreversibly ahead, where you're not casting it early, you're casting it mid-game to empty their hand and start Jace/Sealing your way to victory.
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The DC SCG Legacy Open had a T8 that was theoretically diverse, but can be broken down to 6 Xerox/Blue Shell, 2 Chalice.
Out of the top 32 decks I saw, exactly one didn't have either Xerox or Chalice in it.
Hahah..
Anyway just one thing about the Xerox decks, that is a shell like many others that are possible in legacy, it simply is the most efficient, but it also holds combo, control, midrange decks inside that shell depending on how it is built. Some have a problem with that, I'm pretty ok as long as it isn't the only strategy. Having "shells" is a easier way to make a deck competitive, legacy has loam package, aether vial package, xerox and stompy. Its just a way to build around some proven strategy, because legacy is all about efficiency, and these shells give either speed, consistency, tempo or advantage. Some decks do run without any of those, but they are few.
Starcity wtf naming conventions strike again. Was scratching my head over wtf. "Punishing Abzan" even was. Is code for 4c Loam it seems.
Originally Posted by Lemnear
The Lands in the T8 ran Chalice. Many builds of Lands do. DnT doesn't run Chalice itself, but an entire deck full of the same principle, including a creature that has the same effect. Elves - got me there, I didn't see it in the top 32, my bad. Maverick - that was the deck I was talking about. Turbo Depths and Reanimator both run the Blue Shell - cantrips and Force.
But yes, you're right, only 16 of the decks in the top 32 ran Blue Shell/Xerox + Delver, and another 10 or so ran the blue shell, with most of the rest packing chalice, but there were two whole decks with neither, so things are fine.
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