Quote Originally Posted by troopatroop View Post
You just play a plethora of "different" cards. Your list plays 5 equipments, 19 land, and 8 Bloodbraid Elf/Mother of Runes. You're playing your own homebrew version, and that's fine, but this is the DTB forum. How well that deck does against your friends is unimportant. What matters is how it does against the Legacy metagame, and why your choices are superior to the traditional builds.

I'll tell you right now, that saying Tarmogoyf isn't good enough because he conflicts with your 1 Grim Lavamancer, just isn't going to fly here.
Kinda off-topic:

People have repeatedly posted lists with Bloodbraid Elf here. And a few pages earlier and longer ago, if I remember correctly, some veterans were discussing the idea of replacing Grim Lavamancer with Mother of Runes. This isn't traditional in any way, but still sounds like it's worth trying. I agree the list needs some changing to make it better, but I wouldn't discount it automatically on the basis that it's playing non-standard cards, which in fact might be good.