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Well if he meant that, he should have said that, rather than 'boo hoo green creatures aren't good enough'
I don't understand the "ARGH EVEN IF I KILL THIS I CAN'T EVEN WIN HE'S TOO FAR AHEAD" the creature literally does nothing. In Patrick Sullivan's Chupacabra rant it's the legacy version of Baneslayer. You can tap out for 3 mana and lose it to Innocent Blood or Diabolic Edict or Golgari Charm, be down tempo and end up with nothing (not to mention Daze or Pyroblast etc), and even if you can't kill it _IMMEDIATELY_ it's not like a Scarab God or whatever that puts the opponent insanely far ahead every time they untap with it. It just does 3 damage every turn.
If you say:
1) Blue creatures are currently the best and this does not align with wizards vision of the colour pie
2) TNN is a good creature, and certain other cards that used to be good are really bad against it
I don't disagree with either of these statements but I don't think either one demands rebalancing of the competitive environment
If you can't find ways to deal with a TNN in your Green, Black and White deck maybe you should try a more casual format. It's really not that hard
The whining is especially redicilous, since you get to play your own build your own TNN out of any creature for W for years, which renders creature combat basically meaningless and has a window of one turn to be dealt with before rendering spot removal useless as well as TNN....
"A window of one turn to be dealt with before X" makes a huge difference. It is actually so huge that not seeing or dimissing it says a lot.
Also, you can still interact with mom after one turn. You just usually need to accept a 1-for-2. And sometimes you don't even need to (ex : Jitte). Also, mom itself isn't a clock (and if it even tried to, then you could get rid of it anyway, so...).
So, no. This path will lead you to nowhere except discredit.
Casually leaving out the main part of my argument.
I did not say mom is the same as tnn, just that is pretty redicilous in fair creature MUs as well and I hope you don't try to deny that. I just wanted to point out the hiporacy as you are fine as long as you get the tools but cry as soon as you face something challenging which you can't incoporate
Except Mom by itself is pretty bad at everything besides blocking (which then exposes it to removal) so it needs another creature to be relevant, plus as said can be removed via many other things whereas against true name you can have a hand of 7 spot removal with your creature out and it will infinitely block your creature while still never being exposed. It's also very low opportunity cost as it by itself is an infinite wall or clock, while mom again constrains deck building by forcing you to play with a decent amount of creatures to actually do anything, also it doesn't exist in the color that gets the other best aggressive 1 drop, best cantrips, and best answers
Sometimes the Chalice also prevents a Storm player from efficiently sculpting their hand; or an Elf layer from dropping dorks and sculpting their board.
That would depend on the fair deck.
-Prowess is rarely bothered by a TNN, and should easily outrace.
-Eldrazi should normally be well ahead of most TNN decks. I suspect this is also true of the new Steel Stompy tempo deck.
-D&T is perhaps on a down swing, but has been a solid competitor over the last few years despite the presence of TNN.
-Burn is probably better positioned than it has been in years (would probably do better with more quality pilots), and fears no TNN.
Most fair decks are running counter-spells anyway. What fair decks are really having that much trouble?
Maverick is a tier-2 deck at best. A person who cannot embrace a Legacy without Maverick is never going to be happy again.
Legacy currently features strong prison, stompy, combo, and (hard) control decks all populating the top tiers. There is only so much room for fair magic midrange and tempo decks in a format this diverse in play-styles.
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The B&R-List would have to get alot longer for a deck like maverick to be good again, it's just a worse creature deck than d&t and a worse midrange deck then the e.g. BUG, Grixis and 4C variants. TNN is dull I agree, but there are alot of cards that are actually worse than it to that regard and it's defenitly not a problem for the format power wise. Just alot of whining by people not acepting that the format has evolved past their petdeck.
Yes, I'll be denying that. The fact that you dare such a comparison shows that you don't even know what you're talking about. Regarding your lazy comment about what I could or could not "incoporate", while you know nothing about me, my position regarding TNN, or the kind of decks I play or have played, I'll just respond with a condescending smile .
Also, I've never been a hippocrat. This is redicilous.
All this maverick hate :(. The deck isn't that bad, very few people play it though.
I'm not really bothered by True Name. Sure TNN brick walling Knight is annoying but if it has to stay back and have a staring contest with your knight then you at least get to crop rotate every turn with her while their 3 drop does literal nothing. We also have main deck options to get around it like Dark Depths, Mother, and SoFI. Out of the sideboard we're lucky that we actually have good answers, you don't know how fortunate you are to have access to Zealous Persecution until you see Death and Taxes players sleeve up hot garbage like Holy Light. You also get access to Thoughtseize which lets you handle TNN while making your combo matchup decent.
Sure, it's annoying that blue gets awesome creatures- Leovold being blue instead of abzan and Delver of Secrets being in the same set as Reckless Waif, a card that is harder to flip, lacks a keyword, and is even an uncommon, was really ?????. But nothing that I think cards should get banned over.
Just to make sure I'm up to speed, it seems the hated card du jour is triple-costed Delver with Hexproof. Just checking.
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Is it all that unwarranted? Bear with me for a second.
Part of Legacy's appeal comes from the eternal and non-rotating nature. You can use cards from any time in the history of Magic and they don't rotate out in a planned obsolescence scheme (a la Standard or 1.X). This means you can buy into a deck and have confidence it will still be playable, in some sense, years down the road.
Currently, Legacy doesn't do a good job of fulfilling this. Decks are falling by the wayside left and right as power-creeped bullshit forces its way into the format and bad bans kill off other archetypes (RIP Survival, RIP decks that needed SDT to function). Too many decks are relegated to the tier 30%winrateagainsttheFNMfield dustbin while all the power ossifies around a few pillars of the format (some of which are very SKILL INTENSIVE).
"Well that's competitive formats for you; adapt or die" is the predicted response. Problem here is that this isn't very fun nor interesting in Legacy. Distinct, interesting archetypes aren't rising up to replace the pet decks consigned to oblivion, the same archetypes just gobble up more of the metagame share.
Compare to Modern...yep I'm going there. I've shat on that format as much as probably anybody else here; what kind of shit format has to ban Wild Nactl, am I right guys? But looking at recent tournaments, especially the most recent Promotional Tour, it's a real dynamic format. Sure, your shit gets banned for no reason, but there are interesting new decks popping up all over. The finals were Lantern Control vs a non-Blue Young Pyromancer deck. A pile built around Burning Inquiry and Goblin fucking Lore was the breakout deck of the tournament. And the big favorite decks underperformed.
Shit, this reminds of the halcyon days of Legacy where every top 8, from week to week, would be completely unpredictable, where any cries of "ban X" were silenced by hardly any appearances in the top tables of the next big tournament (even including Blue cards).
But instead of interesting stuff like this, we can get excited about the nth tiny iteration on the Blue stew, what cards du jour Tomb/City/Chalice decks kill with (Exalted Angel is making a comeback, I'm sure!), and maybe get enraged like Borborygmos when some rapscallion trolls us with a fake pirate deck. Oh yeah, and be way more SKILL INTENSIVE.
I'm not buying this at all.
In the time since Maverick fell out of favour (2012-2013) we have seen the rise of:
-Eldrazi
-RGCL
-RB Reanimator
-Infect
-GB Elves
-Steel Stompy
-New Miracles.
We get plenty of new decks that are interesting and 100% distinct. The only thing we aren't really getting are linear aggro decks and cantrip-free midranges decks. That's hardly the end of the world.
I've got no bad feelings towards Maverick as a deck. I suspect it's firmly tier-2, but still very capable.
What I don't understand is how people seem to ignore the wealth of distinct archetypes in this format all for the lack of a tier-1 blueless "fair magic" midrange option.
Steel Stompy is nothing like Mud (or Eldrazi), but some people refuse to recognise it as innovation - unable to see past the Sol Lands and Chalice. Likewise all decks with canntrips; or all decks with DRS, are essentially the same. Maverick, and only Maverick, is truly distinctive. And there is no shortage of hyperbolic nonsense to support this.
I always felt this way about Aggro Loam in the SDT Miracles era.
Interestingly, Aggro Loam seems to have dropped of the face of the Earth! I wonder, is this because:
- The deck leaned heavily on a favourable Miracles match and can no longer compete? Or,
- Loam was primarily played (begrudgingly) by Maverick refugees who are back to Maverick now that they no longer feel beaten into playing CotV?
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"Move on from your pet deck"
No, how about you go play standard and be a grinder barnacle turd where you don't get to have a pet-deck and when you play Legacy you just play Ape and Show because it's quick and easy.
What the fuck, do Vintage players say shit like this too or have they worked out that they are FILTHY FUCKING CASUALS? The reason Legacy isn't a 2 deck formats is because almost everyone plays decks that are strictly worse 75s than the top decks - which most people could sleeve up if they wanted to, they just elected not to.
To be honest, Vintage is fun but has limited play. As the format grows in Restricted cards the format itself shrinks. There will come a day where the best deck in Vintage is a Highlander deck and when that day comes there will be no answer. That and right now you are stuck playing a known element to do well, even if you can change up how it works some. (Golden Gun Oath for example)
The most healthy format right now is Modern, Legacy is drifting towards the Vintage situation where known elements are really all that is viable. This is not really a point of debate or complaint, it is the outcome of the formats identity. Ban or Legal. New cards that are printed that cause large scale change either have to be accepted and adapted to or Banned. Since that second option is (thankfully) limited we are mostly stuck with the first on all relevant cards. As more and more cards cause change we have more and more streamlined decks that, like Vintage, become the default options. The only difference is we can have them banned outright, ignoring the scarcity that the option is used.
It sounds like you have already accepted that pet decks are shit so why would you get upset when somebody tells you to accept that pet decks are shit? I don't understand the rage. "Move on from your pet deck" doesn't mean "You're only allowed to play UBgr" it means "If you're going to sperg out when you lose with GW KotR or whatever then maybe you should play something else"
@BrainstormApe if you're going to make that argument then what time period is supposed to be 'perfect legacy' where the format is ideal and we can't add any more cards to it? Any date you choose is going to be pretty arbitrary
Are we sure a deck looking to jam a turn 1 thorn should be looked at as innovation? Seems closer to a symptom of a problem.
Also, two things can be true.
True name nemesis not running roughshod over legacy is a testament to the impressive depth and card pool of the format.
True name nemesis is a hideous card design that doesn't belong in legacy.
As much as Tusk Brother Greedy Mike has worked on the steel stomoy deck and did great with it, I don't think it's super innovative. I mean it's legacy shops essentially. Stompy decks have been around forever, this is basically an evolution of what Eldrazi looked like for awhile with thorns and chalice.
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