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Stevestamopz
02-27-2017, 05:10 PM
https://thesaltminesite.com/2017/02/27/the-salt-mine-episode-12-cancon-2017-legacy-round-up-feat-winner-stephen-tang/

Welcome to another episode of The Salt Mine! After all our international guests we take it back to Australia and talk about the recent tournaments we’ve been to. With the large Guf Ballarat tournament in the rear view, we talk about our preparation for CanCon 2017’s Legacy event, how our tournaments went and other general banter about our experiences in the nation’s capital and where the metagame is going. Enjoy!
Megadeus
02-28-2017, 10:17 PM
Will be listening tomorrow. Should be good
wcm8
02-28-2017, 10:56 PM
Good episode. Also I strongly agree with the sentiment re: keeping angle-shooters (aka, cheaters) out of Legacy. It's not a format for that sort of play and attitude.
haganbmj
03-01-2017, 12:59 AM
Fun episode. Always good to hear what your area produces deck-wise.

I agree that the natural progression of an area is towards blue, players enter with less expensive decks (eldrazi being a big one), and transition to blue at some point along the process of picking up blue duals and other expensive deck components.

I disagree with calling some decks easy to play, however. Rather, some decks are just easier to get undeserved wins with. Pretty much everything in Legacy can be optimized to some degree, it's just a matter of tight play, knowing your and your opponent's decks/outs/odds, etc.
There are innately powerful decks that will prop up an inexperienced player for free wins, definitely. Magic is still a game of managing variance/luck at the end of the day.
Stevestamopz
03-01-2017, 06:13 AM
Thanks for the support boys. Tusk up.
Whitefaces
03-01-2017, 06:17 AM
Any chance of a Sneak and Show deck tech?

Actually, a parody one would be hilarious.
thefringthing
03-02-2017, 02:59 PM
Listening to this back-to-back with the latest Brainstorm Show episode was kind of funny because of the opposite views of ANT expressed.
Patrunkenphat7
03-03-2017, 03:21 PM
Listening to this back-to-back with the latest Brainstorm Show episode was kind of funny because of the opposite views of ANT expressed.

Haha yeah I also noticed that when I listened. Good episode though; fun to listen to.