GP Vegas Thread

[jimmythegreek]

Those darn netdeckers!

Just sayin, legacy isnt as diverse as people make it out to be. In a large competitive tournament very few decks have a chance to win.

[Aggro_zombies]

Alright. Same fucking internet decks.

And why does that matter? Legacy hasn't been some halcyon Brewer's Paradise since the late 2000s.

[LOLWut]

Just sayin, legacy isnt as diverse as people make it out to be. In a large competitive tournament very few decks have a chance to win.

Placed in tournaments of 100 players or more just since the Top ban, in late April:

Grixis Delver
Death & Taxes
Elves
B/R Reanimator
Sneak & Show
ANT
U/R Delver
Jund
Food Chain
Bant Deathblade
Czech Pile
Lands
Dragon Stompy
Deathblade
Tezzeret Control
Aluren
Dark Depths
Infect
Landstill
Belcher
BUG Delver
Eldrazi
4c Delver
RUG Delver
Aggro Loam
Maverick
U/B Reanimator
Grixis Control
BUG Control
OmniTell

[supremePINEAPPLE]

Just sayin, legacy isnt as diverse as people make it out to be. In a large competitive tournament very few decks have a chance to win.

Yeah, for 15 round tournaments the consistent decks will rise to the top and be hard to compete with. At the local shop or mtgo league level the field is wide open though IMO.

[Undomian]

D&T takes it down with only 12 DRS in the top 8. Definitely not what I was expecting.

[Hanni]

D&T takes it down with only 12 DRS in the top 8. Definitely not what I was expecting.

Wait a minute... #bandeathriteshaman amirite?

[LOLWut]

9-16:

Lands
Sneak & Show
Czech Pile
U/W Stoneblade
Bant Deathblade
U/W Stoneblade
Grixis Delver
BUG Control

[tescrin]

Wait a minute... #bandeathriteshaman amirite?

Also funny, all 12 are in the same deck archtype

[maharis]

9-16:

BUG Control

This deck is pretty interesting:

Planeswalker (4)
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Liliana of the Veil

Creature (10)
2 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
3 Snapcaster Mage

Sorcery (5)
2 Life from the Loam
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Ponder
1 Toxic Deluge

Instant (17)
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
3 Crop Rotation
3 Force of Will
1 Intuition
3 Stifle

Enchantment (1)
1 Pernicious Deed

Land (24)
1 Bayou
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cabal Pit
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Karakas
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Thespian's Stage
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
4 Wasteland

[apple713]

Wait a minute... #bandeathriteshaman amirite?

will never happen. Creature with a slow clock that doesn't enable anything broken will NEVER be banned.

[Hanni]

will never happen. Creature with a slow clock that doesn't enable anything broken will NEVER be banned.

I think you missed the eye roll emoji, which was supposed to indicate my sarcasm. The comment was in reference to the ban Deathrite thread that got posted after Top got banned, which was full of whining and silly (poor) arguments.

But yea, I wasn't being serious.

[Dice_Box]

will never happen. Creature with a slow clock that doesn't enable anything broken will NEVER be banned.

You say that, but Recruiter is still on the list.

[Hanni]

9-16:

Lands
Sneak & Show
Czech Pile
U/W Stoneblade
Bant Deathblade
U/W Stoneblade
Grixis Delver
BUG Control

So that's where all the Stoneblade went.

[Blastoderm]

Interesting to see no:

Reanimator, Storm, Elves

[Scott]

I'd love to get deck lists (or at least archetypes) further down the standings. 16th got 37 points, but all the way down to 63rd has at least 36 points.

[apple713]

You say that, but Recruiter is still on the list.

First i want to clarify that the recruiter you are talking about is goblin recruiter

Then i wanted to link this thread. -Is-Goblin-Recruiter-actually-too-powerful-for-the-format. Lots of really good evidence as to the brokenness of Goblin recruiter.

[MGB]

No Miracles decks in the Top 16 whatsoever.

At least now Miracles is exactly where it should be - just another Tier 1-1.5 deck among many instead of being the de facto best control deck/blue deck/everything.

I'd say Miracles with Portent is definitely playable and strong but not any stronger than Stoneblade, or Deathblade, or straight Ux control without Miracles. Just different.

[Dice_Box]

First i want to clarify that the recruiter you are talking about is goblin recruiter

Then i wanted to link this thread. -Is-Goblin-Recruiter-actually-too-powerful-for-the-format. Lots of really good evidence as to the brokenness of Goblin recruiter.

I was a poster in that thread, at the time I agreed. Today, I don't. We have a creature card on the list that is weak as piss who if removed, would do nothing of merit. Saying that they would not put a creature who fits that criteria on that list rings hollow when there is one already who is.

Recruiter is about equal to drawing running Matrons these days. Not very strong. If it was off the list, I would put money down it would not end up a four of in anything. Goblins doesn't need it as a 4 of and Chain combo has better options.

Also you don't have to agree with me, but in my views DRS has a 10 fold stronger impact on legacy than Recruiter ever could. I am not suggesting banning it, only that your comment rings hollow, even if it's in jest while another sits there waving and complaining about the injustice of the situation.

That said, I am happy with two Lands decks in the top 9. That's a good day. There was a fact or fiction I saw, "More than one Lands deck will make it into the top 8".dam I wish that had of been true.

[HSCK]

Just sayin, legacy isnt as diverse as people make it out to be. In a large competitive tournament very few decks have a chance to win.

I think you'rereferring to the dice rolling format called modern.

[Megadeus]

I still don't get how a moon-chalice deck didnt run tables in a field like this.

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Because over a 15 round event you get fucked by your consistency issues that bites every chalice deck in the format. The lack of brainstorm. You mull to oblivion three times and lose a couple on the draw from a turn 1 deathrite and your tourney is over because you flooded out while the brainstorm apes put back and shuffled away their extra lands with the card that should've been banned years ago.