On to the results from Feb, our second event. From 4 rounds and 11 players nobody made 12 as the last match to finish saw the only 3-0 lose the decider. Luckily companion didn't crash and calculators were not needed to separate the top 3 who all played each other. We thus had the following four decks on 9 points (in no particular order)
Elves (back to a glimpse version, not Elf Street shenanigans, with Natural Order package. Atraxa might be in the post, but there was a cheeky main deck Ouphe!)
Naya Depths (classic Minsc and Boo regular list)
Initiative-Stax hybrid (think white plume/archon/annointed peacekeepers/chalice as per initiative,but a different mana base with Urza's saga, 3ball, Armageddon/Ravages and Karn)
Mono Red painter (slightly old karn build)
On 6 we had, in no particular order, RW Initiative (all the initiative critters in RW, - dragon stompy with white and all the initative)
Mana dredge
UWR day's undoing Narset (running mentor but not Triumph of St Katherine)
GB Depths with smog combo
Burn
Rounding it out on 3 were
Bomberman
Storm variant with some epic gamble shenanigans (I am assured that this particlar itch has been scratched and regular TES will be back on the menu next time).
Probably the most inventive deck selections we have seen for a while. As more supplemental cards fail to make MTGO in a timely fashion I think people have been rewarded for trying out new cards in established shells- initiative was packed a long time round here before it was available online, for example. Every month Elves seems to be getting a new toy, and the meta here has stayed fresh with lots of diffrent decks represented these past few months.
Finally a shout to SWAWLQ if you are in the UK- March 4th- Bristol- proxy friendly. Here we are again for another Legacy, the second in Febuary thanks to the schedule change. Going forward these will be the last of the month. I missed our first one this month, so I was glad that we had a super competetive field with some faces we haven't seen for a while.
As ever, I will give the results in terms of decks rather than pilots. I know a lot of reports on such tournaments like to give both pilot and deck, but I have always felt that if a new to the area player walks in they can potentially look up last months' results, and more importantly that if a new to the format player turns up, borrows a deck and goes 0-4 it might be a tad offputting to have their name in lights.
On to the results. From 4 rounds and 11 players nobody made 12 as the last match to finish saw the only 3-0 lose the decider. Luckily companion didn't crash and calculators were not needed to separate the top 3 who all played each other. We thus had the following four decks on 9 points (in no particular order)
Elves (back to a glimpse version, not Elf Street shenanigans, with Natural Order package. Atraxa might be in the post, but there was a cheeky main deck Ouphe!)
Naya Depths (classic Minsc and Boo regular list)
Initiative-Stax hybrid (think white plume/archon/annointed peacekeepers/chalice as per initiative,but a different mana base with Urza's saga, 3ball, Armageddon/Ravages and Karn)
Mono Red painter (slightly old karn build)
On 6 we had, in no particular order, RW Initiative (all the initiative critters in RW, - dragon stompy with white and all the initative)
Mana dredge
UWR day's undoing Narset (running mentor but not Triumph of St Katherine)
GB Depths with smog combo
Burn
Rounding it out on 3 were
Bomberman
Storm variant with some epic gamble shenanigans (I am assured that this particlar itch has been scratched and regular TES will be back on the menu next time).
Probably the most inventive deck selections we have seen for a while. As more supplemental cards fail to make MTGO in a timely fashion I think people have been rewarded for trying out new cards in established shells- initiative was packed a long time round here before it was available online, for example. Every month Elves seems to be getting a new toy, and the meta here has stayed fresh with lots of diffrent decks represented these past few months.
Finally a shout to SWAWLQ- wina dual style events held in Bristol UK on March 4th- proxy friendly, great venue. https://swawlq.com/ for details
Last edited by drmarkb; 09-30-2023 at 06:32 AM.
Last night we had a whopping 14 different archetypes, with players from Bristol to Swansea attending for monthly FNM. A fair selection of fair and unfair, blue and not blue made for an interesting night.
The decks, in no particular order, were…
RG Lands
Boros Bomberman
Boros initative
Rb Goblins
Traditional NO/Glimpse Elves with (Atraxa)
Yorion D n T
Uw Show and tell (with Omniscience, Atraxa and Teferi)
Eldrazi Stompy (OUAT green splash)
Doomsday Citadel Storm (spicey)
Cephalid Breakfast
Jeskai Day's undoing miracles (which had some mammoth games)
Naya Depths
Bant control (Worldly tutor/St Katherine) (also spicey)
White Stax
On a really hard fought night only 3 decks made a positive record, Cephalid breakfast making 4-0, with Show and tell and Elves on 9. Everyone else apart from Goblins, Depths and Bant control ended up on 6. Had the other two Swansea players turned up we could have had a perfect 16 different archetypes with Storm and Painter, and it seems that every Delver player was indisposed too. However, 14 pretty different decks doing pretty different things is still pretty good considering we are not a proxy event and the weather sucked.
Last edited by drmarkb; 09-30-2023 at 06:33 AM.
Only 8 for Legacy as the Axion weekend exerted its considerable pull.
Of the 8 we actually had some deck duplication for once- 2 copies of D n T. I prepared meticulously for the event by taking excessively afternoon tea and not bringing the deck I wanted to play.
Our decks in attendance were Elves, 2 Yorion D N T, Miracles, Breakfast, Bomberman, Mono black control, and 4 colour control.
Of these Breakfast had a clean sweep for the second event in a row, with one D N T and mono B taking home a booster each for a middling 4 and two six pointers being the fair blue control decks.
I'd normally have a bit more to say but I did not catch a great deal of the matches going on for once- must have been the tea...)
Just 8 for Legacy FNM again- not sure why the numbers have dipped to single figures this month - other than half term there doesn't seem to be much on. Anyway, we had an odd spread of decks.
Miracles and UW Show and Tell were the only blue decks on display, whilst WR initiative and Dragon stompy were the chalice decks. Elves, enchantress, D n T (Yorion) and Rhinos completed the set. There were some odd matches too- some, ahem, unusual, attitudes to sideboards, which apparently are best left either (a) already in place in the starting 60 ready for the previous match played or (b) best forgotten about because you were so busy laughing at the opponent for doing (a). Much mirth ensued, their sideboards were probably still more effective than mine.
The actual positve results were Rhinos with the 9, and D N T, RW initiative and Elves on the 6. I didn't see much spicy tech, but discovered WH Smith still selling mini eggs, chocolate tech to rule any meta.
It certainly is fresh- sometimes too fresh!
I go back and record the whole data over the 18-24 months periods and post it, it is amazing how many archetypes we squueze out there. Sometimes people message me after specific lists, which I do my best to get, but by and large it is nice to see the changes over the various threads. Here is our latest June one...
Last night was Legacy once more in Cardiff, with an OK ten players. We had a severe water magic drought with remarkably few brainstorms in the room, making for an odd night where nobody made 12 points. The decks were, in no particular order......
Dragon Stompy/Red prison.
D n T Yorion (white, no splash, x2)
Bomberman
R Painter
GW lands
Uw shown and tell (teferi, Omniscience, etc)
UW control
GW enchantress (RIP/Helm)
RG Initiative
The top 3 were..... D n T x2 and Lands, all on 9. DnT - well who knew? Ok, we pretty much all did, but it is still noteworthy how well the torpor orb haters did.
From there it was 6 down to 3 for the remaining decks, on a long night with some draws and matches going to turns. If you are counting there were just 8 brainstorms in the room, each outnumbered by either sol land and equalled by aether vial. This is as low as I have ever seen it, and it isn't through lack of cards, these are the decks people want to play. Legacy, what have you done?
Those all look really cool!
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