[Article]Eternal Europe: Mental Deck Deconstruction

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

Do you really know how to make the most out of looking at an unknown decklist? Check this out and see!

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/28233_Mental-Deck-Deconstruction.html

Let me know what you think! :)

[lyracian]

That was fun and you had a couple of stage interactions I had not thought of.

Are you sure that copying a basic land will give Stage the "basic" type? As that sounds like a great answer to Wastelands.

[Nihilis]

That was fun and you had a couple of stage interactions I had not thought of.

Are you sure that copying a basic land will give Stage the "basic" type? As that sounds like a great answer to Wastelands.
Stage copies a card completely, inclding the supertype 'basic'. So no, stage can't be destroyed by wasteland when a basic land was copied

[lyracian]

Stage copies a card completely, inclding the supertype 'basic'. So no, stage can't be destroyed by wasteland when a basic land was copied
Cool! That is an extra bit of information to add to my knowledge. :cool:

[HammerAndSickled]

Maybe I'm not the target audience for this article, but I can't recall ever looking at a deck list and not knowing what it was trying to do immediately. With your first examples, those are defined decks and known archetypes and it's not at all a suprise to see them. They're not tier 1, but you should know what they do. Most of the time the pertinent question isn't "what is this deck trying to do" but "is it competitive?" Even if you see some strange card choices you might never have seen before it takes maybe 10 seconds to read the card and figure out how it interacts with every other card. Maybe it would have been better to use examples from older metagames?

[Mon,Goblin Chief]

@lyracian: thanks, and, as Nihilis explained, yes that works. :)

@Nihilis: thanks for helping out :)

@HammerAndSickled: To know all the archetypes of Legacy requires much more dedication than most people would give the format. Heck I already look around a lot and I sometimes get blindsided. If you know every deck, kudos to you, I know I probably don't. Also, if you would have understood something like those decks on first sight - and honestly, Food Chain Pod Fit isn't exactly an established archetype, even though the two engines are (somewhat) known - you're a much better Magic player than I am or most people I know. Yeah, I would have grasped what my opponent was doing after a bit but not without really trying to connect the dots first. You're very right however in that taking known decks, even if only to rather hardcore Legacy followers, was definitely a misstep. Old decks lost to the ravages of time would have been a much better idea. If that comes up again, I'll remember! :)