For all who wish to mess around online. We have a lovely little gift from on high today, the Legacy Gauntlet. Its a bit of the whos who of decks at the moment, though I am unsure where they got the idea that Lands is a good deck from...
The lineup is strong:
Miracles
Shardless
ANT
Sneak Attack
Reanimator
Combo Lands
DnT (Finn, did you pay them?)
Infect
Elves
Eldrazi (I do not like the build with Thorns in the side)
RUG Delver. (I swear I see this deck these days and it reminds me of this shirt.)
Aggro Loam
Grixis
U/R Painter (List looks shit.)
All in all it looks like fun as long as you do not get the Painter deck.
It is better to ask and look stupid then keep your mouth shut and remain so.
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I hope your afterlife is filled with eternal torment.
Fuck. Which one of my quotes do I drop for this?
Some of the lists are sort of... odd, but this looks like fun!
I thought the same thing. Kinda peeved that they keep calling ANT "Storm", when TES is around the corner and more reliant on Ad Nauseum. If they would attempt to acknowledge that there's more than one Storm deck in the format, I would be happier.
Possible names for ANT that Wizards could use to be more specific:
UB Storm
Dimir Storm
Cabal Storm
Wishless Storm
PIFT
Painter cracked me up. Why are they trolling us?
If they've kept it the same as the Modern gauntlet, you get like 5 minutes before the matches begin to look at your deck, and while you cant change any of the 75 cards, you could move the Thorns into the maindeck and whatever maindeck cards you want into the board instead.
From nothing came teeth.
I'm curious to see how many players this draws in who are not of the 300-400 league regulars (going by the numbers I've seen recently).
I want more people to join in leagues, seriously odd how often I'm paired against a name I recognize and can half-guess at their list. If this helps bring some people in, then sweet. And heck, honestly gives me a chance to try some decks out that I wouldn't otherwise. Been too focused lately on nic fit stoneforge mystic chalice rhino shenanigans.
I also want to play against a ton of people who don't know how to hold priority, crack fetches at appropriate times, and use brainstorm correctly.
This is my initial opinion. I'm convinced that it's going to turn away a lot of players from Legacy, and not really bring new people in. I mean, you'll get some people who go and just try it out since they dont want to buy in online, but it means nothing when you play against people who have never seen Lands/Storm/Miracles before, and have no idea what they're doing. The payout is so flat as well that It's not really interesting to anyone who has already bought in, plus it's going only a week during the GPs anyways, not enough time for people to get into Legacy for hte GPs.
Are we expecting any good coverage from Columbus? Maybe the intent was "Hey watch some cool legacy, then go online and play the decks you got to watch!". Which is questionable since legacy can be difficult to follow unless there are some really spot-on commentators...
It is a pity they did not go for Enlightened Painter. That deck has game against Eldrazi. But I think Bloodmoon is just a bitch in that Meta and they did not want it there. Funny since it is a bitch in Modern and they leave it there.
It is better to ask and look stupid then keep your mouth shut and remain so.
I hope your afterlife is filled with eternal torment.
Fuck. Which one of my quotes do I drop for this?
This is the second time WotC has featured Death & Taxes inspired tournament decks on MTGO. The first time was the Legacy "Pre-Con" Exiler, initially released circa 2010.
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lol, reminds me of RL
It's weird not to have Grixis Delver in the gauntlet too considering it's one of the top decks at the moment. I can see why, they only want one Delver deck, which makes sense. But why not have Grixis over RUG and include Esper Deathblade or Jund?
Also, Flusterstorm in the Shardless sideboard? Disenchant in Miracles (while they have W//T too)? C'mon.
Flusterstorm isn't unprecedented in Shardless sideboards. Hell, I've tested builds with 4 Spell Pierce in the board. The list they chose is Gerry Thompson's MOCS list.
He's just messing with me. It is in good taste and effective. I don't have a snarky comeback that works either, because I might actually stoop to paying for that exposure if I thought I could get away with it.
Also, I had forgotten about Exiler.
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Does this actually cost money?
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
Yes
It costs 6$ to play 3 matches and you can only win Play Points. A great way to set your money on fire.
As though the fact that it's MTGO wasn't enough of a deterrent already.
Maybe WotC is just trying to support local businesses by making sure I have all this extra spending money!
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
I agree on the Delver comment, but I think they're confused the same way TC decks is. Lumping all the Grixis Pyromancer decks together, whether they're Delver tempo or YP/Therapy control.
I've seen Disenchant in Miracles before too. It does serve to remove artifacts with only W available.
I don't follow...
I don't really mess around with mtgo much, but from reading this thread it looks like anyone can pilot one of these decks on a pay-to-play basis [without ownership]. I guess RUG Delver is going to be much easier for non-legacy specialists to pilot, especially if they play modern??? That said, I don't know why they're throwing the worst performing Delver deck (other than the bant one that nobody plays) into a gauntlet with 3x "you can't cast 1-drops" decks, Lands, and a Turbo-Moon deck (assuming U/R Painter still attacks on this axis)...
Someone should let Wizards know that they're releasing more pieces of this deck in Eternal Masters than any other of these featured decks (Daze, FoW, Wasteland, Goose) - maybe you shouldn't be featuring it in such a horrifyingly bad meta if the point of the gauntlet is partially to generate interest in EM and get more people into legacy. This really should have been U/R Delver with the reprinting of Price and Chain Lightning.
I like how both Lands and D&T are in this gauntlet. So nice that they are making it possible for players to 'discover' these decks to only then discover that a playset of Rishadan Ports cost $800 on MTGO.
If only there had recently been some way for them to introduce Rishadan Port reprints...
G-fucking-G
Some lists are odd, but it is better than i expected.
Also, Thing in the Ice? I'm loving it! I don't think RU is the home for TITI, but i'm wiling to try it.
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