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Judging Legacy September, 2014

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Judging Legacy

September, 2014

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Play all the cards!

Legacy is a very diverse format.

Ban list is relatively small.

Philosophy is to find

solutions before banning

problems.

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Pillars of the format

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Slow format

Watch players for slow play!

There are no slow decks,

only slow players.

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(Don’t!) RTFC

Older cards are often

templated incorrectly,

or not at all. Make sure

to consult the Oracle text

of a card.

This includes creature

types.

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Life total management

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The Decks!

Audience participation is welcome

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Fair Decks

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“Fair” Decks

RUG/BUG/UWR Delver

Esper Stoneblade

Jund

Shardless BUG

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Delver

● Temur, Sultai, and Jeskai variants

● Delver trigger is just one trigger

● Stifle and its many uses

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Stoneblade

● Can play as aggro or control:

watch for slow play

● Lots of equipment means combat

errors

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Jund

● Deathrite Shaman is not a mana

ability

● Tarmogoyf’s CDA applies in all zones

● Dark Confidant trigger is not

considered

detrimental

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Shardless BUG

● Strix/Agent are artifacts

(Tarmogoyf cares about this)

● Cascade mechanic

● Ancestral Vision questions

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Combo Decks

ANT / TES

Show and Tell

High Tide

Painted Stone

Elves

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ANT / TES

● Lion’s Eye Diamond and priority

● Burning Wish and

“outside the game”

● Storm mechanic and its interaction

with Stifle, Counterbalance, etc.

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Show and Tell

● Each card enters at the same time

● Certain countermeasures work, like

Humility, Detention Sphere

● Others, like clone effects, do not

● Emrakul has protection from spells

● Additional costs still required

under Omniscience

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High Tide

● Must declare floating mana

● Time Spiral exiles itself

● Turnabout targets a player on

declaration, choice is made on

resolution

● High Tide affects both players

● Watch for slow play

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Painted Stone

● Players can pitch any card to FoW

● Goblin Welder exchange requires

both objects to exist; doesn’t do as

much as possible

● Emrakul triggers vs. Progenitus

replacement effects.

● 2 Progenitus = drawn game

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Elves

● Glimpse draw is mandatory

● Nettle Sentinel triggers often

missed

● Tracking Wirewood Symbiote and

Quirion Ranger uses

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Control Decks

Miracles

Lands

Death and Taxes

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Miracles

● Counterbalance and CMCs

● Revealed miracles are in-hand

● Miracle trigger can be Stifled and

responded to

● Misdirection as a counter-

counterspell

● Major slow-play risk

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Lands

● Tabernacle trigger is owned by

the creature’s controller

● Dredge is a replacement effect

● Dark Depths + Thespian Stage

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Death and Taxes

● Players often forget about Thalia

● Æther Vial tricks

● Batterskull/germ confusion

● Clear communication especially

necessary

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Is this even Magic?

Dredge

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Dredge

● Two versions: Mana/Manaless

● Many opportunities for missed triggers

● Dredge is a replacement effect

● Breakthrough/Dredge interaction

● LED, Faithless Looting, priority

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50+ other decks

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Questions?