DISCOVER: Legacy Gauntlet
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| DISCOVER: Legacy Gauntlet | |||||
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| Magic: The Gathering Online | |||||
| Event Details | |||||
| Event date | June 8 to 16, 2016 | ||||
| Format | Legacy | ||||
| Themes and mechanics | An preview event for Eternal Masters | ||||
| Number of decks | 14 decks | ||||
| Deck size | 75 cards | ||||
| Magic Online Gauntlets | |||||
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| Digital preconstructed decks | |||||
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The Magic Online Legacy Festival was held in June 2016 to tie in with the release of Eternal Masters[1][2]. The first part - Discover - was a phantom preconstructed Legacy gauntlet held between June 6 and 16, 2016. It was followed by Eternal Masters release events (Assemble), and a competitive Legacy tournament (Conquer).
Players were randomly assigned a deck from the Gauntlet and played three best-of-three matches.
Death and Taxes
A monowhite deck.
| “ | This is a mono-white deck full of "hatebears"—creatures that disrupt your opponent while providing a small battlefield presence. Æther Vial is a key card that allows you to play creatures to the battlefield in addition to using the abilities of your lands for disruption. Mother of Runes is also very important in this deck, as it can protect your other creatures from removal. As a rule, it is not worth attacking with Mother of Runes unless you are sure that your opponent can't remove one of your other creatures. | ” |
Death and Taxes
Creatures (26)
Instants (4)
Sideboard (15)
Elves
| “ | Elves is one of the most unique decks in Legacy. While there aren't many cards in Elves that appear in other decks in Legacy, don't mistake that for a lack of power. Gaea's Cradle is one of the most powerful lands in Legacy, worth playing the full four copies despite its legendary status and the fact that it can't produce mana on the first turn. This deck has a multitude of synergies layered within the Elf tribe. Heritage Druid plus Nettle Sentinel allows you to produce tons of mana, while Glimpse of Nature allows you to draw more Elves as you cast more Elves. Wirewood Symbiote protects your creatures from opposing removal while letting you return Elvish Visionary as a secondary draw engine. Natural Order has lots of functions in this deck, providing a finisher in Craterhoof Behemoth or a nearly unstoppable creature in Progenitus. | ” |
Eldrazi
A colorless Eldrazi typal deck.
| “ | Once the scourge of Modern, Eldrazi are powered out by the presence of many lands that produce more than one mana. Ancient Tomb, City of Traitors, Eye of Ugin, and Eldrazi Temple provide a significant base to be able to cast cards such as Thought-Knot Seer on turn two with regularity. The Eldrazi creatures are supported by disruptive spells such as Warping Wail and Chalice of the Void. A turn-one Chalice of the Void for one can be disastrous for many other decks. | ” |
Eldrazi
Four-Color Punishing Knight
A 
deck.
| “ | This deck overlaps quite a bit with Lands, using Life from the Loam with the Punishing Fire-Grove of the Burnwillows and Dark Depths-Thespian's Stage combinations. The big difference with this deck is the use of creatures, specifically Knight of the Reliquary. | ” |
Four-Color Punishing Knight
Grixis Pyromancer
A 
deck.
| “ | This deck is focused on Young Pyromancer and various synergies related to Young Pyromancer. Cabal Therapy is especially potent, as you'll be able to sacrifice an Elemental token to flashback Cabal Therapy, while creating a replacement Elemental. It is also possible to chain blue card-drawing spells together to fuel Young Pyromancer (or Thing in the Ice). | ” |
Grixis Pyromancer
Infect
A deck.
| “ | If you've played Modern, then you're likely familiar with this strategy. Play a creature with infect, then use pump spells to get to ten poison counters as soon as the second turn. In legacy, the pump spells are supercharged—Invigorate plus Berserk provides ten poison from a 1-power creature, and there are zero-mana ways to protect your combo in the form of Force of Will and Daze. | ” |
Infect
Lands
A deck.
| “ | There are tons of powerful lands in Legacy, as well as a few cards that are very powerful when your deck contains 37 lands. Life from the Loam and Wasteland (with an assist from Rishadan Port) can often lock opponents out of mana, while Punishing Fire and Grove of the Burnwillows can take out creatures repeatedly, and eventually the opponent. If you make Thespian's Stage a copy of Dark Depths (and keep the copy with the "legend rule"), you'll end up with a Dark Depths with no counters on it, which means a 20/20 Marit Lage token. Gamble is the perfect card with Life from the Loam, as you rarely care if the card you searched for ends up in the graveyard. | ” |
Lands
Miracles
A control deck.
| “ | The key card in this deck is Sensei's Divining Top. It allows you to manipulate the top of your library, which is important for countering spells with Counterbalance and for drawing miracles at the right time. Brainstorm, Ponder, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor can manipulate the top of your library in a pinch as well, but Sensei's Divining Top allows this to be the premier control deck in Legacy. | ” |
Miracles
Painter Combo
A combo deck.
| “ | This deck has several strange interactions. Any Painter's Servant should name Blue, so that your Red Elemental Blasts can stop anything. However, the deck is built around Painter's Servant and Grindstone, which will mill your opponent completely unless they have a Progenitus or Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Make sure you have a Tormod's Crypt to prevent Emrakul from reshuffling!
The unique interactions don't stop there! If you tap Sensei's Divining Top to draw a card, you can respond by sacrificing it to Goblin Welder and still draw a card, without putting Sensei's Divining Top on top of your library. This can be a card-drawing engine if you have two Tops. Finally, Lion's Eye Diamond is commonly used to activate Grindstone, but it can also be used in response to Intuition in the same way that Infernal Tutor plus Lion's Eye Diamond works in the Storm deck. Make sure you hold the control key as you cast Intuition! |
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Reanimator
A Reanimator deck.
| “ | This is the other deck that can cheat huge creatures onto the battlefield. When compared to Sneak and Show, this deck is often more disruptive due to its discard spells, but also more vulnerable to graveyard hate. Deathrite Shaman is particularly difficult to deal with once it gets active. Entomb is the key card in the deck, as it both selects the correct creature for the situation and puts it directly into your graveyard, which is generally preferable to putting it into your hand for this deck. | ” |
Reanimator
Shardless Sultai
A deck.
| “ | This deck has the greatest amount of card advantage of any deck in Legacy. It starts with Ancestral Vision (often cast via Shardless Agent), but Baleful Strix and Jace, the Mind Sculptor provide card advantage, which is relatively difficult to do in a format as fast as Legacy. Past that, this deck is a hyper-efficient set of creatures and spells—Deathrite Shaman, Brainstorm, Force of Will, Wasteland, and Tarmogoyf read like a list of the best cards in the entire Legacy format, and they are all here in one deck. | ” |
Note: the magicthegathering.com decklist only gave 14 Sideboard cards.
Sneak and Show
A deck.
| “ | This is all about cheating huge creatures onto the battlefield. Show and Tell and Sneak Attack can be used to put either Griselbrand or Emrakul, the Aeons Torn onto the battlefield, which will often end a game. The rest of the deck is mostly composed of fast mana, blue cantrips, and counterspells to help protect the combo. | ” |
Storm
A combo deck.
| “ | This is one of the premier combo decks of the format. The goal of this deck is to cast nine or more spells, then finish with the single copy of Tendrils of Agony. The easiest ways to get extra spells are Ad Nauseam and Past in Flames. One important synergy is using Duress or Gitaxian Probe to know what's in your opponent's hand before Cabal Therapy. However, the most important interaction is between Infernal Tutor and Lion's Eye Diamond. If you cast Infernal Tutor, then respond by sacrificing Lion's Eye Diamond (on Magic Online, hold the control key as you cast Infernal Tutor), you will have hellbent for the Infernal Tutor, and you will have the mana from Lion's Eye Diamond to cast the spell. | ” |
Temur Delver
A Tempo deck.
| “ | The ultimate tempo deck, Temur Delver attempts to use a combination of Stifle, Daze, and Wasteland to prevent the opponent from playing their normal game. Meanwhile, some hyper-efficient creatures can chip away at the opponent. | ” |
References
- ↑ Lee Sharpe (May 13, 2016). "Magic Online Legacy Festival: Discover. Assemble. Conquer. (website)". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016. Retrieved on May 17, 2016.
- ↑ Adam Prosak (June 1, 2016). "The Legacy Gauntlet (website)". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on June 7, 2016. Retrieved on May 17, 2016.