I don't think this deck is horrible, but it needs improvement. Any suggestions?
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Posted on Aug. 10, 2022, 12:35 a.m. by trueblue102231
Title ^^^ Hey check out my deck Blue/white merfolk tribal deck
wallisface says... #3
Some initial thoughts:
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too many cards are 1-ofs and 2-ofs, which is going to lead to massive consistency issues. Most the deck should be playsets (4-ofs) of cards.
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your mana curve looks waaay too high. I know in Modern its often unrealistic to run more than 3-4 cards costing 4 mana, and often nothing higher-costing than this. I imagine Legacy is even more intense on mana efficiency, but you’ve got a whopping 11 cards costing 4-or-more mana. This seems waaay too much and will lead to very slow/clumsy hands.
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i’m curious as to why you’ve built this for Legacy and not Modern? Modern can support Merfolk as a tribe quite nicely, but I don’t see how this tribe can get close to competing against the decks in Legacy…
August 10, 2022 12:43 a.m.
trueblue102231 says... #4
Thanks for the feedback!
I built this for legacy as I am a relatively new player and that is just what me and my friends play.
About the mana curve, what do I do to fix that asside from taking cards out?
August 10, 2022 12:47 a.m.
wallisface says... #5
trueblue102231 the mana curve solution really is to just take cards out - i’d suggest ditching everything above 4 mana, and then restricting your quantity of 4-mana cards to 3-4. Depending how the rest of your curve looks, you might be able to go down to 23 lands.
The only way a deck can justify running lots of high mana cards is with a bunch of ramp spell… bit that is a very different deck to what you have here.
August 10, 2022 1:16 a.m.
Grubbernaut says... #6
Does your group allow proxies? Legacy is very unforgiving of suboptimal decks, considering the quality of cards that are legal.
August 10, 2022 1:43 a.m.
Gidgetimer says... #7
Legacy Merfolk is definitely a thing. Though "I am a relatively new player and that is just what me and my friends play" leads me to believe that maybe the deck is Legacy legal, not competitive Legacy. I might be wrong, but I don't think this is a case of "go spend $700 on playsets of Force of Wills and Chalice of the Voids". You could take a cue from the legacy list and run playsets of True-Name Nemesis, Lord of Atlantis, and Master of the Pearl Trident as a basis for the deck though.
August 10, 2022 6:17 a.m.
trueblue102231 says... #8
Just to confirm a few things, yes, I don't want to spend $700 on a deck at the moment, however, I am willing to put in about $50-$100 Second, me and my friends allow any card ever printed because we don't really have the money to restrict our pool.
trueblue102231 says... #2
The deck is a merfolk tribal control deck.
August 10, 2022 12:36 a.m.