My maindeck Trinisphere list:
9 Mountain
4 City
4 Tomb
2 Sandstone
1 Crystal Vein
4 Lotus Petal
4 SSG
4 Seething Song
4 Trinisphere
4 Inferno Titan
4 Sneak Attack
4 TTB
4 Boar
2 Griselbrand
3 Wurm
3 Emrakul
My version without Titan:
9 Mountain
4 City
4 Tomb
2 Sandstone
1 Crystal Vein
4 Lotus Petal
4 SSG
4 Seething Song
4 Trinisphere
4 Sneak Attack
4 TTB
4 Boar
4 Griselbrand
4 Wurm
4 Emrakul
Both have sideboard:
4 Faerie Macabre
3 Defense Grid
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Abrade
2 Cratermaker
If you're wondering how I produce blue mana, I copy my opponent's Island with Thespian's Stage
My Youtube and Twitch usernames are DNSolver.
I am the Legacy metagame:
-2016 Eternal Weekend Europe won by BR Reanimator (I wrote the primer)
-2016 Eternal Weekend North America won by Turbo Dark Depths (I write about and develop the winning version specifically)
-Refiner of Hogaak Depths.
Yesterday I test this list
4 city
4 tomb
2 sandstone
10 mountain
4 chalice
4 song
4 petal
4 sneak
4 ttb
3 trini
2 fiery confluence
4 simian
4 boar
2 emrakul
2 wurm
3 titan
Side
4 macabre
3 sudden shock
2 abrade
2 goblin crater
2 defense grid
2 blood moon
4 1 and 3 2 in league
I love chalice and trini main deck, I think 4x boar is much what do you think? My idea is - 2 boar - 2 fiery confluence +4 blood moon main deck
How do you guys like Crystal Vein? 9 mountain is plenty but I cant decide between 1 vein + 2 sandstone vs just playing 3 sandstone.
DNS Solver, I love both your lists. In the list without Titan, I would probably cut a wurm/emmy/gris/a trini for atleast a single Fiery Confluence as an answer to maindeck Ensnaring Bridge that Gris can help you draw into. Fiery Confluence offers similar flexibility to Titan vs creatures and I would want to play either one or the other maindeck.
Caprino, congrats the wins.
The list you’re suggesting seems inconsistent, especially given the excellent results with the more consistent builds. The newest list is making a mistake playing 4 sneak attack and 4 TTB but only a total of 4 creatures that combo well with them (2 emmy/2 wurm/0 gris), in a deck with no cantrips or tutors, which means the TTB/Sneak will be dead cards way too often. I think this deck should minimum devote 6-7 slots to those three creatures (I play 8, my list hasnt changed). Otherwise the combo component becomes way too inconsistent). At that point, I think a Moon Stompy list would be better.
The strength of Boar is that it doubles as both a sneak effect and an aggressive beater thats bigger than any fair threat in legacy. Titan also has similar flexibility which is what makes these cards so effective in the deck. I could see at most cutting 2 of these slots but no more.
If I wanted to play several copies of chalice, trini, Fiery Confluence and moon all maindeck, I would rather play moon stompy. This deck can at most devote 8-9 total slots to these cards (cutting one or two lotus petal/song, and at most take away 2-3 slots from griselbrand/emmy/wurm/titan to accomidate them). If lotus petals get cut, the list should no longer be playing Griselbrand imo since petal is key to Griselbrand being effective. Perhaps something like 3-4 Chalice, 2-3 Trini, 2-3 Moon, 0-2 Fiery Confluence (only for metas with Ensnaring Bridges) could work since all those cards are worse in multiples but I wouldnt devote more than 8-9 total slots to those four cards.
Last edited by Captain Hammer; 05-05-2019 at 10:00 AM.
New test list I will br trying:
9 Mountain
4 City
4 Tomb
2 Sandstone
1 Crystal Vein
4 Lotus Petal
4 SSG
4 Seething Song
4 Trinisphere
4 Sneak Attack
4 TTB
3 Boar
3 Griselbrand
4 Wurm
3 Emrakul
*3 Faithless Looting*
4 Faerie Macabre
3 Defense Grid
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Abrade
2 Cratermaker
If you're wondering how I produce blue mana, I copy my opponent's Island with Thespian's Stage
My Youtube and Twitch usernames are DNSolver.
I am the Legacy metagame:
-2016 Eternal Weekend Europe won by BR Reanimator (I wrote the primer)
-2016 Eternal Weekend North America won by Turbo Dark Depths (I write about and develop the winning version specifically)
-Refiner of Hogaak Depths.
Yes, the same list. Play it with friends, dont have MTGO.
Side is...
4 Faerie Macabre
3 Defense Grid
3 Trinisphere
2 Fiery Confluence
2 Cratermaker
1 Blood Moon
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/instant-deck-tech-boar-attack-legacy
Nice DNSolver! How do you like the chalice in the sb and the main deck faithless?
Delver doesn't roll over to Chalice anymore (as in, not like ~5 years ago) with threats like Young Pyromancer, TNN, and Angler. More threats that can actually kill you. Further, Grixis Control can easily kill whichever of these artifacts, but at least Hymn is slowed down. Trinisphere is also GG vs ANT, probably GG vs TES, probably GG vs Reanimator, and vs Sneak and Show makes it so Omniscience isn't really viable, so they're down to needing 4 sneak attacks as they can't Show and Tell vs us. Trinisphere is also fairly castable on turn 1 like Chalice. Turn 1 trinisphere almost always protects better for a turn 2 combo than Chalice.
In this particular shell I constructed, I wanted to play a few Lootings. This tilted the balance even more in favor of playing Trinisphere over Chalice. Lootings were okay. I think going back to a version with more 5 or 6 mana hardcastable threats might be more viable though to have more play vs the only card we care about - Containment Priest. I think the best options are:
Inferno Titan
Godo
Batterskull
Wurmcoil
I could see playing BSkull with or without Godo but I think it's probably pretty bad. Inferno Titan is probably just the best.
If you're wondering how I produce blue mana, I copy my opponent's Island with Thespian's Stage
My Youtube and Twitch usernames are DNSolver.
I am the Legacy metagame:
-2016 Eternal Weekend Europe won by BR Reanimator (I wrote the primer)
-2016 Eternal Weekend North America won by Turbo Dark Depths (I write about and develop the winning version specifically)
-Refiner of Hogaak Depths.
Ilharg the Raze Boar should absolutely be a 4 of if you're going to dedicate 10 slots to uncastable creatures. But I think dedicating 10 slots of creatures you can never hard cast might be a mistake.
Ok, that makes sense.
Yeah I agree Inferno Titan is amazing, and the best of the threats you listed.
If you go down to 3 trinisphere and cut a couple of griselbrand you could would have enough room to play both inferno titan and faithless looting.
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Lotus Petal
3 Inferno Titan
4 Worldspine Wurm
3 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Simian Spirit Guide
3 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
4 Sneak Attack
4 Through the Breach
3 Seething Song
10 Mountain
2 Sandstone Needle
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Karn, the Great Creator
1 Fiery Confluence
-Sideboard-
3 Defense Grid
3 Trinisphere
1 Mycosynth Lattice
3 Faerie Macabre
2 Ashen Rider
2 Sudden Shock
1 Fiery Confluence
If any deck is going to jam Karn we have the mana ramp to do it. Titan belongs in the main. It is a main deck answer to Teeg and more often than not just takes over the game when on board. Sudden Shock has proven amazing against containment priest decks. Abrade or Cratermaker may also make the cut in the sb... We don't care about new Teferi or Narset - I think this deck is great in the current meta with the London mull on the horizon.
I thought about Karn but I don't think this deck seems suited to it. We might not be able to cast lattice reliably enough, and there are no payoff cards besides lattice. We can't run lock cards like bridge. Perhaps put a quicksilver amulet in the board? And perhaps a blight steel or something like that in case you need a fatty.
If you posted that list as an example of one you've played with, let me know - I'm interpreting it as construction theory.
If you're wondering how I produce blue mana, I copy my opponent's Island with Thespian's Stage
My Youtube and Twitch usernames are DNSolver.
I am the Legacy metagame:
-2016 Eternal Weekend Europe won by BR Reanimator (I wrote the primer)
-2016 Eternal Weekend North America won by Turbo Dark Depths (I write about and develop the winning version specifically)
-Refiner of Hogaak Depths.
Has anyone tried out the modal double faced lands in the deck?
Shatterskull Smashing
Song-Mad Treachery
Valakut Awakening
all seem like playable cards and quite good at improving consistency to avoid mana flood/mana screw.
Jeska's Will is basically 4 more Seething Song early game (that turns into a weak card draw spell mid/late game, mostly not going to be relevant).
It will even make 6-7 mana the majority of the time, enough to sneak out multiple creatures the same turn (especially useful with Griselbrand) or cast both a Chalice on 1 (a great counterbait or StP protection) and the combo on the same turn, or to cast both a Chalice at 1 and a Chalice at 2 the same turn etc.
I think its worth making room for a couple of Jeska's Will. It could take the place of stuff like Trinisphere, Fiery Confluence, Karn or Faithless Lootings and similar fringe cards.
A proposed list... I haven't tested it.
4 Worldspine Wurm
3 Griselbrand
3 Inferno Titan
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
4 Sneak Attack
4 Through the Breach
4 Seething Song
3 Jeska's Will
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Lotus Petal
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Trinisphere
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
4 Mountain
2 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Shatterskull Smashing
2 Sandstone Needle
1 Crystal Vein
or alternatively a Chalice/Trini free list tuned to combo out turn 1 near 100% of the time and better able to combo multiple times each game...
4 Sneak Attack
4 Through the Breach
4 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
4 Inferno Titan
4 Worldspine Wurm
3 Griselbrand
2 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Jeska's Will
4 Seething Song
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mountain
4 Snow-covered Mountain
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
2 Crystal Vein
1 Sandstone Needle
0 Shatterskull Smashing
Sideboard:
4 Faerie Macabre
4 Defense Grid
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Trinisphere
I suspect that Griselbrand and Inferno Titan are superior to Emrakul in these all in versions of the deck since a turn 1 Emrakul doesn't do much outside of 15 points of damage, and leaves you scrambling to find a way to deal the last 5 for the rest of the game. Atleast Inferno Titan can easily be hardcast even without the combo and Griselbrand makes it very likely you can swing with multiple creatures the same turn.
Last edited by Captain Hammer; 11-17-2020 at 07:55 AM.
I think Jeska's Will will actually produce less mana on average than Seething Song, but it's still probably worth it, although maybe not a full playset. Blue opponents will be mulling hard for Force effects, which will leave them with fewer cards in hand, on average, postboard, so Jeska's Will is likely to be less reliable. I would cut Chalice before I would cut Trinisphere. Turn 1 Trinisphere is great versus everything, and if it eats a Force of Will, it saves your business spell. I agree with Emrakul not being the best for this deck. I would still play one copy, which would provide Painter protection at almost zero cost. I've never felt Karn or Looting was right for this deck, so those would be free slots, from my perspective.
Edit: After thinking about this more today, I believe Jeska's Will runs into a problem similar to Black Vise's, in that if your opponent uses a Force of Will or Force of Negation on any of your pieces, whether that's a Chalice or a Seething Song, the loss of those cards is going to negate your copies of Jeska's Will.
Last edited by ESG; 11-17-2020 at 09:31 PM.
Firstly, we would still have to worry about counter magic (i.e. Spell Pierce, Flusterstorm, Counterspell, etc.). Secondly, you’re correct that we would still be susceptible to discard spells (i.e. Duress, Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, etc.). Thirdly, if we do play Void Mirror (main deck) than we wouldn’t be able to play Lotus Petal or Simian Spirit Guide!
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
I think there is a new toy.
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