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Posted on Feb. 6, 2016, 1:15 a.m. by alanwescoat
Hi. I am preparing for a tournament tomorrow. It is our meta's first local Legacy tournament. There is no entry fee, but there is a full box of Oath of the Gatewatch offered for first place by the sponsor.
Anyway, I am building on a budget, as usual. The only complete Legacy deck I had available was Robots/Affinity, though I have a lot of options for it. I had been toying around with the idea of Tribal Constructs for Modern, so I thought, "Why not give it a shot in Legacy?"
For this local tournament, I am expecting at least two Miracles decks, Robots/Affinity, possibly Burn, and probably BUG. There will also be at least one combo deck, but I have no idea which one.
The link below has the list, along with detailed reasoning for many of the choices. Your input is appreciated.
Constructicon Legacy
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alanwescoat says... #3
EndStepTop, thanks for your input. I am pretty sure that there is not much of a way to adjust the tribal theme here, not without going either straight back to Robots/Affinity or becoming an entirely different archetype, such as Elves. The lack of disruption is bothersome, to say the least. I have a lot more experience with Modern, which I understand is very different.
As for the deck being slow...it goldfishes faster than my typical Robots deck. I recognize that Robots is not a top-tier Legacy deck the way it is in Modern, but I have to go with what I have. As it stands, I have to borrow 4x Mishra's Factory, 4x Mutavault, and 3x Spatial Contortion just to play this deck. If only the format were more affordable...L.O.L.
February 6, 2016 10:01 a.m.
If you like Affinity/Robots try this out
Legacy Robots
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This was my first Legacy deck when I went into the format about a year ago. Very successful, able to win T3. If I was changing it now I would bring Chalice of the Void into the main in some quantity due to a better understanding of Legacy, but this deck regularly won games against multiple tier 1 archetypes and got me a top 8 in my very first legacy tournament.
February 8, 2016 4:46 a.m.
alanwescoat says... #5
Maltanis, thanks. Your build is quite similar to the Legacy Affinity I do play. Unfortunately, I had to make budget decisions, and Chalice of the Void at $20 each was unaffordable for me last year. now, I see that the card has gone up to a ludicrous price of $50-$60, which makes me sad, very sad. For that price, I could just buy the 4x Noble Hierarch I need to complete Modern Infect...L.O.L. These cards are getting stupidly expensive, and Wizards is not making much of an effort to supply the demand.
February 8, 2016 5:13 a.m.
Yeah, Chalice is a daft price at the moment. It should fall down after all the hype.
February 8, 2016 7:47 a.m.
alanwescoat says... #7
Maltanis, I find some of the sudden skyrocketing of prices to be rather suspicious. In the case of Hangarback Walker, it made perfect sense because the moment I checked the price the week it came out, it was valued at $1.49, which was obviously far too low for a card that was a house all by itself. Apparently, people had simply not been genuinely looking at what the card could do in all formats. Chalice of the Void, on the other hand, has been around for well over a decade. It is a great and well-known staple card which has seen two printings. Its price has risen over 900% in the past eighteen months with two outrageous spikes. This is for a sideboard card. It really seems as though there is some significant market manipulation going on. Snapcaster Mage doubled in price last year immediately after I sold my two Korean ones. The price has fallen but only slightly. Meanwhile, staple prices keep going up, up, up! When fetchlands are trading for more than genuine duals, things are really getting out of hand.
February 8, 2016 8:33 a.m.
EndStepTop says... #8
Chalice is a 4 of in the deck that had 85% winrate and a 3/4 representation in the top 8 of modern pro tour, the spike is reasonable.snapcaster and scalding tarn both were key pieces to ur twin and almost the entire rest of the deck was reprinted in modern masters, creating a demand for the not reprinted cards.
February 8, 2016 1:29 p.m.
alanwescoat says... #9
EndStepTop, I guess I did not pay attention to the final builds. Snapcaster Mage seemed like an option for Twin, rather than an essential card, one that might help some builds but not always. I am guessing that the recent winners were all using 4x playsets of Snapcaster Mage. Is that correct?
February 8, 2016 7:51 p.m.
EndStepTop says... #10
No. I think 2/3 depending on pilot however the card sees play in legacy and vintage (just like tarn) and had stayed incredibly low for a long time, it's change was less to do with a buy out and more with self correction/increased interest.
EDIT: after typing that I checked mtgtop8 and yes it was a 4-of.
February 8, 2016 8:03 p.m. Edited.
alanwescoat says... #11
EndStepTop, I see that you were able to edit your comment. How do I do that? I cannot find any control for editing any post after I have posted it.
February 8, 2016 8:32 p.m.
EndStepTop says... #12
There's a light blue button next to your post number for editing. It is set to a timer, I think 5 minutes after you originally post? It seems to vary for me. I think it might also be an upgraded member perk? I honestly don't know it just became a thing I could do a while ago.
EndStepTop says... #2
The deck seems really slow and has zero disruptive elements. You're going to lose hard in a competitive legacy environment. Your could try taking a "stompy" shell and adjusting it to add your tribal theme, but even then I don't feel the creatures you're playing are on par with what a legacy playa la creature needs.
February 6, 2016 9:28 a.m.