[Free Article] Legacy Combo: It's What's for Dinner

[(nameless one)]

There are some good players in the Elves thread here, they just can't come to a consensus on anything.
Some of them think Symbiote isn't one of the best parts of the deck.

This.

I've always wanted to build an Elves combo deck but there are so many takes to it depending on the meta. Ruckus, k2thej and a few other have been working on the deck. Some run the deck via speed and some with consistency. Ruckus' paper build even runs Survival of the Fittest for consistency while others use cards such as Concordant Crossroads for the hasty kill. Some run Emrakul for win-con, while others do Grapeshot/Tendrils Kill. Joraga Warcaller is also used.

Like Dredge, its on the verge of being a top tier deck, but cannot really do it.

[Pastorofmuppets]

This.

I've always wanted to build an Elves combo deck but there are so many takes to it depending on the meta. Ruckus, k2thej and a few other have been working on the deck. Some run the deck via speed and some with consistency. Ruckus' paper build even runs Survival of the Fittest for consistency while others use cards such as Concordant Crossroads for the hasty kill. Some run Emrakul for win-con, while others do Grapeshot/Tendrils Kill. Joraga Warcaller is also used.

Like Dredge, its on the verge of being a top tier deck, but cannot really do it.

I run Grapeshot and Warcaller.
It goes quite well, but Firespout is a huge issue.

[Nessaja]

In the Netherlands there's pretty much a concencus on the best combo elves build. It's a very streamlined deck that borrows the most from the extended legal list in its prime.

[Pastorofmuppets]

In the Netherlands there's pretty much a concencus on the best combo elves build. It's a very streamlined deck that borrows the most from the extended legal list in its prime.

You're not suggesting Curio, are you? I'm hard-pressed to believe that the deck needs to lose to Artifact hate, too.

[Doomsday]

The Legacy version of the deck is like the real version, minus half of its draw engine. Who wants to play that?

[flrn]

flrn and others who love Doomsday: I get it, you love Doomsday. Doomsday is a very cool card. However, there are Tendrils decks that have performed better, and are significantly easier to play. It isn’t as easy to find Legacy results as it was (since a lot of the new search engines omit stuff like player count), and I didn’t find much in the way of viable Doomsday combo doing well in the latter half of this year. While one could definitely write an article that was nothing but varieties of Legacy Tendrils decks, that wasn’t my objective here. One of the reasons why I chose the ANT deck that I did, besides the fact that it did very well at a large event, was that it had a Doomsday sideboard. I did that purposefully to show that Doomsday is, in fact, a card, and does see some play. Now I know that you could point out that I included Breakfast, when Breakfast hasn’t really done much in a few years, but its an interesting deck that has some history and highlights a few available deck design decisions that we aren’t using right now; in other words, its there to show some history, expand horizons a bit, and get people’s minds in motion.

After the banning of mystical tutor some of the german top notch combo players have switched to Doomsday Fetchland Tendrils. At the german nationals legacy side event Doomsday Fetchland Tendrils ended up in second and third place. There were also some top 8 finishes of that deck in Iserlohn and Hassloch, which are the two largest monthly happening legacy events in germany. It might not be played in america, but here in germany you gotta expect to play against people piloting that deck.

[Bardo]

Solid article. I like these "State of the Format" articles through decklists.

Well done. :)

I hope the Card Which Must Not Be Mentioned is not smashed with the Hammer That Bans Things.

That would be an embarrassment to this format, I think. Like banning Goblin Lackey circa 2006.