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Whatever happened to Lim-Dul's vault? During Flash's heyday, people were clamoring about how insane it was and comparing it to Vampiric Tutor. Now that Flash is banned, it hasn't really shown up a lot.
Do you think that Vault was only good in Flash, and is headed for the 5 cent bin again, or do you think there are other decks that could make good use of a seemingly powerful, if underplayed, card? What sort of decks do you think would be most apt to abuse Vault? Only Combo, or do you think that it has a home in other deck archetypes as well?
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Originally Posted by Slay
Given the recent success of both TES and Belcher and my personal hunch that maybe Empty the Warrens may be the next nuissance, I would like to see this questioned answered as well.
1) Is Jitte a crutch of bad deck building/builders? Sub question: Would any build of Threshold run Jitte if Nimble Mongoose had Troll Ascetics ability?
2) In his recent GP Columbus report (insert guys name who played Sui) wrote that he played cheap, pumpable creatures (as opposed to say, Negators) so he could function on mana light hands, but take advantage of mana flood. How important is this concept in deck building, and what decks, strategies, and cards can abuse this philosophy?
Does major threats like Goblin Lackey and Empthy the Warrens put more restrictions on innovative deck building than proactive and reactive answers like Pitching Neelde, Swords to Plowshares and Force of Will?
This is debatable depending on how big my boobs feel in the morning.
Are decks which feature Green as one of their main colors underpowered due to Green's total lack of half-way decent combo hate?
White has Chant, Abeyance and various disruptive creatures/enchantments, Blue has counters, Black has discard, Red has at least Pyrostatic Pillar, Blasts against Blue (and LD, if you can count that as effective disruption), but what does Green have? Root Maze? Plow Under? Seriously?
Threshold and similiar decks only splash for a few efficient creatures while running tons of quality disruption in the other colors or, in case of combo decks, they run Green only for mana accel.
Sure, Aluren and Survival both run Green to a certain degree, but not without a disruption package borrowed from black and/or blue.
Trinity Green - disruption based on artifacts, not on green.
Now let's take 43 Lands - Mono-Green (under normal circumstances), no artifact-based disruption, dies horribly to combo.
In the past, I heard sometimes stuff like "R/G Beats would be a beast in the meta game - if it didn't lose so horribly to combo."
Does Green's weakness in dealing with combo (and, to a lesser degree, creatures) make it to the stepchild of the format?
One of Red Deck Wins main strength's was to use its mana efficiently via various permanents when it doesn't cast any spells.
Did Bill Stark's Suicide Black perform so well in the GP because it had the same ability (among other things like good metachoices)? Should this kind of strategy be integrated into more decks to increase their performance? And if so, what are the bests ways to do so?
What are the most underrated cards in Legacy?
What is the best splash color for goblins and why? Which one will eventually survive? What are the pros and cons of each builds?
She said, "You're broken."
"So is your face." replied the Tarmogoyf.
I've been designing a new deck these days, I've been digging the spoilers for cards that would help in its strategy, and I've discovered that it falls short by one card. Were wizards kind enough to print any card that could be included in it, and it could become a serious contender.
This gives me the idea of asking which decks in the current metagame are in the same situation, lacking just one card to be competitive. Which decks do you think would become feasible with just one new addition to the card pool?
Note I'm asking about decks, not cards.
Two things.
Which direction do you believe legacy is headed towards. A restricted type 1 or more of an extended extended? What direction would you like it to be headed?
What changes in the banned list would you make to reflect this direction?
Yup, this is an interesting question which should reveal the adept's diffrent styles and opinions. (which are also interesting.)
Should Wizards continue to ban cards that become very expensive to keep the price barrier at a minimum or should they only worry about the power level?
I second this. It would be very interesting to see all the adepts' answers.
Agreed.
I don't like the latest question, more specifically the "What kinds of cards could Wizards print..." part of it. I don't like hypotheticals that will never come to fruition.
In Anusien's latest Unlocking Legacy article, he states, "The addition of Tarmogoyf to Legacy has introduced a phenomenon previously seen in every format with the exception of Legacy: the race to find the best way to abuse a strategy." Tarmogoyf is already seeing play in Threshold decks, both UGW and UGR. Where else might it see play, and what is the most effective way to take advantage of it?
How essential is Tormod's Crypt in a modern legacy sideboard? Until recently, I would run crypts in a sideboard without batting an eye, sometime as many as 4 copies. But nowadays, with Thresh more hate resistant by way of the near-ridiculous Tarmogoyf, and iggy pop giving way to combo like TES and belcher, is crypt worth taking up those precious SB slots?
I’ve got two:
1. Swords to Plowshares are widely touted as the best pin-point creature removal spell printed. Knowing this, what kind of constraints does that put on building new control decks? Is a control deck that doesn’t include white simply inferior to its brethren by not including white for Swords? What are the alternatives to Swords in the other colors, and how do they compare? Is it even worth building a control deck that doesn’t include white?
2. Wizards have already set the precedent of banning cards in Legacy based on price. What does this mean for Legacy when the price of the original dual lands and other staples reaches such a place to put them out of reach for your typical player wanting to try out the format? Will it be the end of Legacy as we know it? Or do you think Wizards will be forced to reprint said staples just for Legacy and Vintage? If they do reprint the staples, what does this mean for the cards banned based on price originally?
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Are wishes the sole property of combo decks in Legacy? are there control or aggro control decks that should be running them? Is there any chance an aggro deck could use them?
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