#legacy mtg

[vaguely-art]

Going to be annoying and post this everywhere, but I finally trophied a competitive legacy league in mtgo! Playing my own janky list with a lot of pet cards and finally got some ridiculous luck to pull this off.

Time to immediately retire this deck and start theory crafting something worse, with even more pet cards

[ion0ra]

Magic Pet Archetypes

Before you go any further, no, this isn't about stereotypes that apply to your familiar, dragons, or whatever other magical pets you may have.

This is about the game "Magic: the Gathering," and a thing I've noticed over the years playing it.

As anyone who plays the game for long enough knows, there are several archetypes that can be drawn from deck building. From a "artifacts," to "Tron," to "Boros Burn," to just simply "Jund," or even "Mother, May I?" Magic's archetypes show forth between decks in many different ways. Whether referring to Tier 1 Modern decks, or a Homebrew you made from what was lying around, to your league deck, there's some kind of quick name you can call it to identify it as.

But there's always an archetype people want to make happen everywhere, as much as they can.

Take a guy who goes to my LGS, whose name eludes me. He plays Boggles. Pauper Boggles, Modern Boggles, and he's currently trying to see if Legacy Boggles works. I'm sure if he found a decent Legendary, he'd make Commander Boggles. It's his "pet archetype." Sure, when he does league he'd /like/ to try Boggles, but none of the sets line up all too well.

For me, I have two. I have Dredge and Storm. The Janky Combo and Janky Aggro decks. I just love the fact that they aren't really supposed to work, but do anyways. I've made Ydris Dredge (Dredris, who's still in progress), Kess Storm, Modern U/R Gifts Storm, Legacy Storm on Cockatrice, and am looking into Pauper Dredge and Storm (Empty the Warrens and Grapeshot are banned, but this is more of a Impact Tremors/Mirran Spy/Retraction Helix/Ornithopter or Phyrexian Walker deck)

My question, then, to you all is: What's your "Pet archetype"? What's one you cherish above all others, try to cram into every deck that allows it, or even changing a deck entirely to fit it in?

Tagging @imperialseal, @commandtower-solring-go, @tumblhurgoyf, @chelsea-beleren-vess, @hazoretspartyfavors, @flavoracle all because I figured you guys would have some interesting stories/additions to this? Otherwise, sorry for the @ !

But feel free to reblog/add to this!

[groselhagirl]

It's so weird to me that one of the top Legacy decks right now runs the new black Goyf, Tamiyo and the frog. Three brand new cards in the core of a format that used to be the old cards format. Not to speak of vexing bauble, bowmasters, the whole eldrazi deck and so on

[vaguely-art]

I think we're close to something here, maybe just need to tweak 75 or so cards in the list and it'll really be popping off

[vaguely-art]

I understand the need for chess timers in online play, but I wish we had a better system than this

[vaguely-art]

Alright, legacy this past weekend was a setback, I had literally 0 interaction for doomsday and was just 1 turn too slow on the helm to race them out of old school Enchantress. Positive note, I 100% outpace lands through literally all of their hate, including blast zone on 3 and 1 in the same turn and 2 sphere of resistance

Without splashing a 4th colour, I'm leaning towards either archive trap (lmao) or possibly aven mind censor to punish them after doomsday resolves? Was also recommended chalice to drop on 0 to hit lotus petals and diamond, but they all feel so niche having to dedicate at least 20% of my sideboard for one deck

The better news, though, is that I finished my Tezzerator/Thopter Sword mainboard and have been doing practice hands with it. Force of Will helps literally every combo match, and blue/black plus artifact tutor sideboard opens up so many options, I was even debating stifle or trickbind? It's all pretty rough for now, definitely going to need a fair amount of tuning before I get the 75 settled

[lesbian-alesha]

Guess which bitch started playing legacy

[vaguely-art]

Finally got out for a legacy magic night to treat myself today, not off to the best start, but no worse than I expected. Playing 4 Horsemen tonight and went up against Grixis control round 1, and he just had every answer. I got my orb and monolith out game 1, couldn't get grave order right and my opponent was able to ult Liliana of the Veil and ruin it. 3 rounds to go, plenty of time to redeem myself!