Five-color control

[perm]

Is it possible to compete with it? I was wondering because this was a deck in lorwyn standard facilitated by their vivid lands. My question is, would a control deck that finds the color pie irrelevant in the picking of best possible cards (not too crazy of a concept in legacy) make any sense in this format?

[morgan_coke]

Only if you can come up with a viable plan to avoid being blown out by wasteland/back to basics/ blood moon/price of progress.

Also, because of the much deeper card pool in Legacy, you generally don't need to play five colors to get any effect you want. What I mean is, if you want a board clearing effect, there are several colors that can give it to you. The same is true for pretty much anything outside of countermagic, which is almost exclusively blue, with a few conditional exceptions in white and black. (and some really conditional exceptions in red and green).

That said, a few years back the Hatfield brothers did do fairly well with some 5c thresh lists that relied on City of Brass.

[sa17dk]

I'm not a fan of 5c decks. I dont even like 4c.

Sure it's awesome throwing out Brainstorm one turn, Swords to Plowshares the next, Firespout after that, then Confidant + Goyf after that.

But getting lolblownout by Wasteland is too much of a liability.

[towishimp]

I agree with Morgan - all five colors aren't really necessary in legacy. For instance, my go-to control deck for local legacy tournaments is mono-white. White (plus artifacts) has great mass removal, great spot removal, solid combo hate, and graveyard hate. The only color I've ever considered adding is blue, for card draw and/or countermagic. I can't see what any other color would add, really.

Weigh that against the cost of playing all five colors: vulnrability to Wasteland and Back to Basics, plus the clunkiness of sometimes just being color-screwed, and it's easy to see why even though legacy enables easy multi-coloring, most legacy decks stick to 1-3 colors.