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Hey folks what do we think about unbanning black lotus? It's basically just pure card disadvantage since you can't really do anything good with 3 of the same color of mana anyways. You are down 3 cards if your opponent forces a turn 1 JTMS aka pure card disadvantage. It seems close to unplayable, kind of like tinker.
Give me a Chalice of the Void creature (whose P/T is equal to X) and you can have Mind's Desire.
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I mean, I started Legacy on system combo decks, the more complex the better. Played a ton of different Storm variants, and High Tide remains my favorite Legacy deck of all time. Nowadays I tend to play Tomb/City-based decks, whether they include Chalice or not (most do, but I love me some Painter).
I like prison decks and have always preferred board control strategies to stack control strategies. Since MBC, Enchantress, and similar decks are unplayable in this format, I have gravitated towards Chalice decks and occasionally Lands in the last 4-5 years. Chalice is also the best hate card against cantrips, and I strongly dislike how the cantrip shell has come to dominate Legacy and caused the format to cease to resemble the one I enjoyed so much 7-8 years ago.
Also, expanding on my response to Secretly.A.Bee, I don't like fair blue decks. Blue for me was always an enabler for system combo. As those decks (particularly High Tide) got worse, and the agro strategies I also liked died out, prison decks became the go-to strategy that wasn't a fair blue deck. I like artifacts a lot as well considering I started playing right around OG Mirrodin. This has become way too random, and I'm sure if I thought about it I could come up with other reasons so I'll stop now.
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Thats not really an answer though. Ok, why do you like prison/board control strategies? (Even though I would like to know, which stack based control deck exists in legacy, miraclces plays as much elemonts of board control as it plays of stack control.) I for example like decision based interactive games (like most mtg players overall). Thats why I fail to understand how slamming a lock piece on t1 and then either winning when its good enough or loosing when its not is any fun, but I accept that it is for some people. Unfortunatly right now there seems to be less and less of that (at least on mtgo). Everybody is trying to throw their Chalice/Blood Moon/B2B/Choke-shit at each other... I am close to throwing 100$into arena to play standard cause it looks terrific atm.
Even though chalice is the best hate for cantrips it's just broken in a format which is first and foremost about tempo and thus forcing decks to focus on low cmc spells.
For some people, including me, permanent-based control is just more attractive than stack-based control. You have your cards on the battlefield, you can use them, tap or activate, they have a continuous effect usually, you can block or attack if it's a creature... etc. Generally, you have "built" something, you have "more" from your cards over multiple turns, in contrary to a counter spell.
Second, the tears and moaning from your opponents :-)
And you still have decisions to make.
That's bullshit imo. It's like saying "Force of Will is broken in a format which is about fast combo decks and thus forcing them to include disruption".
Force of Will keeps combo decks in check. Chalice keeps cantrip/tempo decks in check.
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