Eternal Europe: The Ultimate Legacy Compendium

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

Hi guys, next article is out. Want to know what's around in the format? Check this out:

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/l...ompendium.html

[Amon Amarth]

That's a ton of lists. I think I'm in heaven.

[GGoober]

Why is your article free while Drew Levin's personal gloating of his Legacy life is premium?

Can't read through all this at work, and only care about 1/3 of the decks you listed, but great work and I appreciate all the work put towards this. This is a gem for people wanting to see the viable decks currently available.

I'm real happy you mentioned Dreadstalker! So happy! :3 We are 2 cards off! (you swapped the Snuff Outs for Dismember which I haven't gotten to testing yet). You did forget to mention the 2nd most important function of Vision Charm: it protects Dreadnought. It's primary function is to act as Stifle, secondary function is that it protects Nought from removal (Charm it in response to removal, imagine setting up Dreadstifle turn 3 with a blue mana open for Vision Charm protecting it, on top of Thoughtseize/Daze/FoW etc), and last function is getting a fast Tombstalker when your first one died. The phantasmal terrain ability is also not worthless, and the milling occasionaly screws over Lim-Dul's Vault, Doomsday, ETutor. The card is pretty bonkers when considering it's a crappy card when taken in context outside of Dreadstalker :P

Will post more later when I have time reading through this. Thanks!

[Admiral_Arzar]

Awesome list of decks. The only things I can think of that you didn't mention are rare fringe decks like Mono Green Chalice Aggro, U/B Planeswalker Stax, Angel Stompy, etc. I guess the new Past In Flames - based storm decks as well, but I'm not sure they count as sufficiently proven to be included. I was impressed that you included stuff like SI, Faerie Stompy, and Dreadstalker though.

[Goaswerfraiejen]

Great article, thanks! It's fantastic to have so many (updated) decklists in one place.


One day, someone other than me will pilot UGB River Rock. Perhaps then it will make it on such a list! Hey, a guy can dream.

[wcm8]

Nicely done, I really appreciate the effort and outcome. I echo another poster's sentiment about quality work like this being 'free' while other fluff articles are 'premium'.

A possible suggestion for a future article: Perhaps redo the "Complete Legacy Checklist". Menendian did these while he was still on the SCG writing staff, and still does them for Vintage, but I think an updated one for Legacy would be great -- the most recent one has a lot of outdated stuff still on it and obviously doesn't include the more recent sets. You could also maybe include a section on extremely obscure niche cards, separate from the main section. This could include narrow silver bullets such Tower of the Magistrate or Harmonic Convergence.

[Michael Keller]

Nice article, but I wanted my damn name dropped in 'The Gate' and 'Imperial Painter.'

I'm just playing.

[Goin Aggro]

So many players from the LA meta got name-dropped/decklist credited. Good to know that I'm getting my ass kicked by the best.

Also: Zoo list was kinda funky. What would you actually bring the 4th lavamancer in against? Fish?

Optimal Sideboard probably -1 Lavamancer, -1 Pridemage, - 1 Crypt, -2 Mindbreak Trap, +1 Canonist, +2 Ancient Grudge, +2 Price of Progress.

[Finn]

Good God. That is huge. I can hardly comprehend the amount of labor involved in putting together that article. And you had at least something interesting to say about absolutely everything. I got just past White Stax and my brain needs a rest now. I appreciate so many aspects of what you did there.

Carsten, that really is a monster. Well done, sir.

[majikal]

Wooooow, that's big. Excellent article! I can't even imagine how long it took you to put that together.

[Philipp2293]

Can't appreciate that enough. Helps me soooo much with building a gauntlet.

[JustPAT4]

Woooooooow. Seriously man--thank you. This is a tremendous resource for current and future legacy players worldwide. Truly useful work. Thank you for sharing it with the world.

Cheers,

Pat

[XcaliberZ]

This is really great, thanks for the work.

[Tammit67]

Seems like someone took up Elias's torch

[DerFern]

yay, got namedropped with Spanish Inquisition... there we go, eternity of the internetz!!11!!1

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

Thanks for the kind words, happy you enjoyed it. And yes, it was quite a lot of work.
As far as name-dropping is concerned, I can't guarantee the people cited are actually any good (though they probably are, they did win something after all, otherwise I wouldn't have found their lists online). I only made sure to copy lists that looked solid ;)

[Mobiusman]

Although it's not very statistically significant, I thought this might be interesting: the cards with the most appearances in this article.

188 Brainstorm
172 Force of Will
138 Wasteland
127 Misty Rainforest
115 Swords to Plowshares
108 Island
85 Tarmogoyf
84 Tropical Island
80 Thoughtseize
78 Ponder
73 Polluted Delta
71 Daze
67 Plains
66 Forest
63 Spell Pierce
63 Flooded Strand
62 Dark Confidant
61 Stoneforge Mystic
59 Underground Sea
58 Stifle