I brought maverick to a legacy tournament this past FNM. I went 3-1 and made top 4.
The list was:
4 wasteland
3 savannah
2 forest
2 plains
4 windswept heath
2 verdant catacombs
1 maze of ith
1 karakas
2 horizon canopy
1 dryad arbor
3 aven mindcensor
3 stoneforge mystic
3 noble hierarch
1 birds of paradise
2 mirran crusader
4 knight of the reliquary
2 qasali pridemage
3 mother of runes
1 gaddock teeg
1 thrun, the last troll
1 scryb ranger
1 scavenging ooze
4 swords to plowshares
4 green sun’s zenith
2 sylvan library
1 umezawa’s jitte
1 sword of fire and ice
1 sword of light and shadow
SB
1 gaddock teeg
2 path to exile
2 enlightened tutor
1 choke
1 ethersworn canonist
1 dueling grounds
1 runed halo
1 tormod’s crypt
1 wheel of sun and moon
1 phyrexian metamorph
1 pithing needle
1 thorn of amethyst
1 aura of silence
Round 1 Andrew Cavanaugh with NO BUG 2-1
Game 1: Vendillion clique beats me down to 7 as I can’t find either GSZ or mindcensor. He has double goyf on the ground for blocking. A natural order for progenitus forces me to scoop.
Side in: runed halo, phyrexian metamorph, gaddock teeg, 2x enlightened tutor
Game 2: I land a turn 2 teeg, turn 3 mindcensor, and a turn 4 knight of the reliquary. He scoops shortly after.
Game 3: We each hit early wasteland and creature removal. I’m left with a horizon canopy and birds of paradise against his one bayou. I land a stoneforge mystic and grab a jitte. Next turn equip stoneforge and kill both his dryad arbor and noble hierarch. Turn GSZ for teeg and he scoops.
1-0
Round 2: A.J. Kerrigan withThe Epic Storm 0-2
I’m sure A.J is playing TES since it’s what he always plays and writes about for starcitygames.
Game 1:I lose the die roll and keep a hand with mindcensor. AJ plays land, lotus petal, chome mox, dark ritual and ad nauseum. He flips well and I die.
Side in: gaddock teeg, 2x enlightened tutor, ethersworn canonist, dueling grounds, runed halo, and thron of amethyst
Game 2: I keep a hand with gaddock teeg and thorn of amethyst. I play a savannah and pass. AJ plays a land, dark ritual, dark ritual and ad nauseum. I die shortly after.
1-1
Round 3: Jim Higginbottom with The Epic Storm 2-1
I put Jim on playing a Bug deck since that is what he usually runs but I was wrong. Turns out he was playing TES which I knew he owned but he hasn’t played it in a long time.
Game 1:I won the die roll and kept a hand with mindcensor but no mana dork. I play land into mother of runes. He plays scalding tarn and passes. I follow with a land into a GSZ for noble hierarch. He then plays gemstone mine into dark ritual, rite of flame eventually getting ad nauseum and I die.
Side in same as round 2
Game 2: I land a turn 2 teeg and follow with a turn 3 mother of runes. This forces him to go for grapeshot but when he sees he will be one mana short, he goes for deathmark instead to kill gaddock teeg. I play both noble and pridemage and start swinging for 5 a turn until he dies.
Game 3: He plays land into ponder. I play land and pass. He plays land into duress and in response I E tutor for ethersworn canonist. He takes GSZ and passes. I land ethersworn and win because he counted his echoing truth as the imprint for chome mox but since he used it to bounce ethersworn at EOT he loses.
2-1
Round 4:Joey LaGravenese with Br Gate 2-0
Game 1: Joey gets stuck on one land. I play turn 2 teeg, turn 3 knight, turn 4 knight and he scoops.
Side in: runed halo, 2x enlightened tutor, dueling grounds, 2x path to exile
Game 2: He lands a turn 1 lavamancer. I land turn 1 noble hierarch. He plays a turn 2 isochron scepter imprinting diabolic edict. I follow with a turn 2 runed halo naming diabolic edict (my favorite play of the day). He lands another isochron scepter imprinting terminate but I land a mirran crusader after removing lavamancer with a swords. Soon after he dies to mirran crusader.
3-1
Top 4 Adam Ludwigsen with Snapcaster Bug
Game 1: I land a mother of runes which he kills with ghastly demise. He lands a turn 2 goyf while I land a turn 2 stoneforge with gets killed. I lose my equip to hymm to tourach but manage to land mirran crusader. Crusader and goyf end up just staring at each other because goyf is a 6/7. He keeps removing my other creatures and flashes in a snapcaster mage. He forces my scavengine ooze and I soon die after he jaces my crusader multiple turns.
Side in (never tested against snapcaster decks since no one in my meta was playing them yet, so I had no idea what to side in): gaddock teeg and 2x path to exile
Game 2: Pretty much the same game except I die to a vendillion clique while goyf and crusader stare at each other. I actually boarded out mindcensor here and GSZ for scryb ranger only to have it killed.
Props:
-Gaddock tegg/Ethersworn canonist for doing their jobs
-Mirran Cruader for giving gate and bug decks so much trouble
-Sylvan Library for helping me win when it hit the table (2 seems to be the right #)
-Togit for hosting great legacy tournaments
Slops:
-Aven Mindcensor for failing to stop a single fetch and only helping as teeg backup against NO
-Me for taking out terravore and batterskull which both would have been good against snapcaster
I would like to squeeze both terravore and batterskull back into the deck but not sure what to take out. I’m also thinking of adding a second scavenging ooze and a second scryb ranger.
