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Jerry Mee - Leaving a Legacy podcast ep. 143

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Punishing Thieves

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the Spice Cabinet! GP Vegas is in the rear-view mirror and we have a fresh look at how the metagame has shaped up in the post-Top tournament scene. This brave new world seems to be heavily populated by cheap aggressive creatures. [casthaven]Delver of Secrets[/casthaven] put four decks into Top 8 with three different flavors of color combinations.…

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Build Around Mee

Have you ever really wanted something, but all your friends tell you it’s a bad idea? “It’s a waste of money,” they say. “You’ll never use it. It’s not even good in the metagame right now.” After hearing all of these logical and well thought out arguments, you may even have thought to yourself… “I am a grown ass man! If I want to spend my hard earned money on a ridiculously expensive piece of…

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Show and Told

If you want to become a better deck brewer my advice to you is to share ideas with other brewers. Especially brewers who might not agree with your ideas, or who see things from a different perspective. For example, my friend Jason Grigely is a fellow [casthaven]Show and Tell[/casthaven] aficionado, but that is where our similar viewpoints end. He is a fan of the [casthaven]Cunning…

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Past Times Revived—Berserk Stompy

Past Times Revived—Berserk Stompy

For this iteration of Past Times Revived we will be taking a look at the winner of the 2008 tournament that Aaron Gazzaniga and I have been updating over the last several weeks. [casthaven]Berserk[/casthaven] Stompy, unlike the other decks in this series, actually does see a fair amount of play in today’s Legacy metagame. However, you probably do not recognize it as it has evolved so much over…

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Past Times Revived—Dreadstill

“I just found this gem from 2008, the Top 8 is spicy as f*%k!!!” This is how a message began from the one and only Aaron Gazzaniga, a close friend and fellow writer for Hipsters of the Coast. The decks in this Legacy tournament from years gone by were indeed thought-provoking. It was filled with some of the coolest decks from Magic’s history, decks that are all but extinct in today’s metagame.…

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Esper Dread Return

Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Joe Fiorini (AKA @IslandSwamp) about a Vintage deck he was brewing, built around [casthaven]Monastery Mentor[/casthaven] and [casthaven]Dread Return[/casthaven]. The idea is to pump out a bunch of tokens with Mentor, then flash back [casthaven]Dread Return[/casthaven] to reanimate [casthaven]Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite[/casthaven]. Unfortunately…

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A Sneaky Sideboard

Over the past three weeks I have been testing a new sideboard for one of my favorite decks, Sneak & Show. Over that time I piloted the deck to a combined tournament match record of 10-5. Not a ground shaking performance by any means, but it was enough success to show me that we might end up with a gem after a bit of polish. Another good sign was that two of those match wins came against Death &…

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