Looking to try out the Legacy at our Legacy Series? If you can’t find a deck to borrow and want to play Legacy without breaking the bank, try out these decks:
Burn
| Creatures (8) 4 Goblin Guide 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel Spells (32) 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Chain Lightning 4 Lava Spike 4 Rift Bolt 3 Flame Rift 3 Searing Blaze 4 Price of Progress 4 Fireblast 2 Sulfuric Vortex Lands (20) 12 Mountain 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Wooded Foothills |
TCGPlayer.com Price: $311
Some easy swaps to make if you don’t have that kind of cash either:
-4 Goblin Guide
+4 Monastery Swiftspear
-4 Bloodstained Mire
-4 Wooded Foothills
-3 Searing Blaze
+8 Mountain
+3 Searing Blood
You may have noticed that I didn’t provide a sideboard – Burn has a bit of flexibility with its sideboarding and should be tuned for the expected metagame. Here are some example sideboard cards:
- Red Elemental Blast/Pyroblast
- Mindbreak Trap
- Smash to Smithereens
- Relic of Progenitus
- Grim Lavamancer
- Satyr Firedancer
- Vexing Shusher
- Ashen Rider
- Ensnaring Bridge
- Surgical Extraction
- Pyrostatic Pillar
- Sulfuric Vortex
- Pithing Needle
- Forked Bolt
- Sulfur Elemental
Lastly, here’s a small guide on how to play Burn against counters by the one and only @BasicMountain, Patrick Sullivan: Burn vs Counters
Don’t want to play Burn? Check out Manaless Dredge:
Manaless Dredge
| Creatures (42) 4 Balustrade Spy 1 Blightsteel Colossus 2 Flayer of the Hatebound 4 Golgari Grave-Troll 4 Golgari Thug 4 Ichorid 4 Narcomoeba 4 Nether Shadow 4 Phantasmagorian 3 Shambling Shell 4 Stinkweed Imp 4 Street Wraith Spells (18) 4 Bridge from Below 4 Cabal Therapy 4 Dread Return 4 Gitaxian Probe 2 Mishra’s Bauble | Sideboard (15) 4 Chancellor of the Annex 4 Contagion 4 Mindbreak Trap 3 Sickening Shoal |
At around $250, it certainly attacks at a different angle compared to the rest of the format. You always want to be on the draw, and the deck can grind out the grindest of decks due to its consistency.
Check out Michael Boland’s article on Manaless Dredge here: Manaless Dredge at SCG LA
Another budget contender is Oops All Spells. This version just 3-1’d a Daily Event on Magic Online and clocks in at roughly $250:
Oops! All Spells
| Creatures (27) 4 Balustrade Spy 4 Elvish Spirit Guide 1 Laboratory Maniac 4 Narcomoeba 4 Simian Spirit Guide 4 Street Wraith 4 Undercity Informer 1 Underworld Cerberus 1 Wild Cantor Spells (33) 4 Cabal Therapy 1 Dread Return 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Cabal Ritual 4 Dark Ritual 3 Manamorphose 4 Pact of Negation 4 Chrome Mox 4 Lotus Petal 1 Bridge from Below | Sideboard (15) 3 Bridge from Below 1 Dread Return 2 Empty the Warrens 1 Flame-Kin Zealot 4 Ingot Chewer 4 Nature’s Claim |
If you’re unfamiliar with Oops All Spells or at least this version of the combo, this is how it works:
- Step 1: Mulligan into a hand with Undercity Informer or Balustrade Spy.
- Step 2: Ramp up into four mana as soon as possible and cast one of the above cards and target yourself with their ability.
- Step 3: Put your entire library into your graveyard, triggering all Narcomoebas and putting them into play.
- Step 4: Sacrifice three Narcomoebas to Dread Return Underworld Cerberus.
- Step 5: Sacrifice Underworld Cerberus to Cabal Therapy to return all of your creatures from your graveyard to your hand.
- Step 6: Exile your Spirit Guides, cast Wild Cantor and make a blue mana, then hardcast Laboratory Maniac.
- Step 7: Cycle a Street Wraith to win the game.
You can also read the primer that unleashed this monster onto the Legacy world here: Unveiling Oops! All Spells
With 4 Pact of Negation and 4 Cabal Therapy, you aren’t completely dead to Force of Will, which is unlike many turn one combo decks in Legacy.
What will you be taking this weekend to our opening Spring Classic event?
ManaWerx
- Date: January 3rd, 2015
- Location: ManaWerx – 4920 W Thunderbird Rd, Suite 122, Phoenix, Arizona
- Entry Fee: $15
- Registration: 10:00am-10:45am
- Round 1 Start: 11:00am
- Format: Legacy
- REL: Regular
- Swiss rounds based on attendance, with a cut to Top 8.
- Decklists Required.
Prizes:
- 1st Place: 36 packs, 10 Legacy Series Points
- 2nd Place: 18 packs, 8 Legacy Series Points
- 3rd-4th Place: 12 packs, 6 Legacy Series Points
- 5th-8th Place: 6 packs, 4 Legacy Series Points
- 9th+ Place: 1 Legacy Series Point
View the complete AZMagicPlayers.com 2015 Legacy Series – Spring Season Schedule here!