Quote Originally Posted by Hollywood View Post
You really, really want to run Faithless Looting and Lion's Eye Diamond. I am not insinuating it is absolutely necessary, but the raw power it provides the deck is unparalleled in Legacy right now. Even Faithless Looting by itself is incredibly good as another Study effect. With LED, it's just pushed over the edge. You can skip running them by placing controlled discard outlets in your deck, which is fine, but really I'd much rather have more explosiveness to close the gap on those match-ups that were questionable to begin with, like Storm Combo. You close the gap big time with LED, which is actually really important.

Faithless Looting is the key spell here because it adds explosiveness and consistency to the deck at the same time, but LED is just incredibly attractive with it. If you guys are having difficulty running LED or are afraid to run it for varying reasons, let everyone know.
You're 100% right when it comes to pre board games, or games where there is no interaction at all. As soon as you face hate, Tireless Tribe is suddenly a million times better than LED and I'm not exaggerating. Having LEDs in your deck when your opponent has active hate pieces is a huge liability. I know that you can just 'race' some conditional hate every now and then.

I'm not afraid of being half a turn slower against Combo decks. Especially not after I figured out that the speed discrepancy is much smaller than I thought. I'm afraid of losing games to graveyard hate. And this is where LED sucks hard.

The question people have to ask themselves is whether they'd rather have an improved post board game when facing any sorts of graveyard hate or if they want to be half a turn faster in games that you usually win anyway.