Quote Originally Posted by looreenzoo View Post
Newbie question. I would like to get into Legacy and, after lurking for awhile, I'm considering starting with storm and, more in particular, with ANT. Since I have to buy all the fetches and the duals (on MTGO), I wonder if there is an overall consensus on the manabase: 4 Polluted Delta, 2 Underground Sea, 1 Tropical Island and 1 Volcanic Island are a given, but what about the rest? The primer goes for 3 Scalding Tarn fetching both blue duals and a Badlands, but I see lists making different choices.
Depends on what you want to play in the sideboard mostly. If you are running almost anything other than a young peezy build I would recommend

1 island
1 swamp

2 u sea
1 volc
1 trip
1 bayou

4 delta
4 misty

Some people like the 4 non delta fetches to be a 3-1 split of blue based-black based (3 misty 1 mire) but this is all personal preference.

If you are running a young peezy build or something else that is heavily red based I would recommend swapping the bayou for a badlands and making the 4 non delta fetches into 4 tarns (or 3 tarns and 1 verdant).

This is all personal preference and there is plenty of tuning that can be left up to you (like if you want to add a 3rd basic or change around the fetches) but that should at least give you a good place to start, especially with most lists now adding even more green cards to the board (like grip on top of decay and swarm).


Or as a final alternative you can just go the sawaterix route and use whichever fetches you have foil versions of.