That’s all I have time and room to write about now. In general, Temporal Mastery has always seemed like an underutilized card in Legacy, since our plethora of cantrips let us set it up and the tempo shell of Delver has always had the capability to just kill people. He also has great fair matchup tech with the ability to simply cast Dark Ritual into Liliana, the Last Hope to snipe every creature off the board and threaten an ultimate as early as turn 3 with the pair of Temporal Mastery. Dank has also packed the best anti-blue Doomsday pile tech in Cavern of Souls, naming Wizard for an uncounterable Thassa's Oracle. Force of Will, Daze, and Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist are all great at protecting a Doomsday you’re trying to resolve. Temporal Mastery is good in both plans as it lets you chain into lethal turns with creatures naturally on board, bait out counters, or even build effective pass-the-turn piles with Doomsday. Dealing with both the Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration /tempo side of the deck makes you naturally weaker against the Doomsday side and vice versa. There’s been a not-insignificant amount of stir over this deck (before Kappa Cannoneer hype drowned it out). The final deck I want to look at is our dear T.O, Dank’s: it’s time to jam a Doomsday, stack two Temporal Mastery on top, and kill someone with a Murktide Regent. The white splash for Ethersworn Canonist and Esper Sentinel is also quite potent. The playset of Ornithopter enables fast and consistent Emry, Lurker of the Loch and powers up Retrofitter Foundry. Nusk went with a slightly different-from-the-norm version, with a lean towards the Affinity decks we saw just after MH2 was released. I’d be quite shocked if one of these two didn’t end up in the Top 8. The sideboard can be configured to the meta and boasts silver bullet artifacts such as Aether Spellbomb can be slotted in as 1-ofs due to the power of Urza's Saga. It can play the beatdown in combo matchups and the control in tempo mirrors quite well. The card advantage engine backed by counterspells and light prison elements also sports an artifact toolbox thanks to Urza's Saga. 8Cast was still great before Cannoneer, however, and will still be a threat. Neither of our 8Cast pilots managed to convince themselves to play the new hotness, Kappa Cannoneer, which means they’re on the much less explosive version of the deck. Let’s break down some of the decks we see here. You’re highly unlikely to be facing the same deck from round to round, and that means that matchup knowledge will be very key in deciding these matches. Only three decks have more than one representative, meaning we have fifteen distinct decks being played by eighteen players. When we break this down into deck archetypes, we once again see our usual glorious UOL spread of decks represented: 8Cast (UW, Mono blue)

I expect to see a lot of very frenetic, bloody games. The presence of only a pair of decks designed to slow the game down on top means we’re looking at a league that is likely to be brutally fast and hard hitting. Only four aggro or tempo decks and seven combo decks is quite unusual for the Legacy meta. The breakdown of the marcoarchetypes this season looks like this: Aggro / Stompy / Tempo If you want to see all of our decklists and the current standings for Legacy, check out our Legacy format page. He ran Legacy with both passion and great humor and will be missed. He’ll be stepping down from his role after this season to focus on real life stuff. Welcome to another UOL Legacy League everyone!īefore we dive into the meta report, I’d actually like to give a huge thank you and sayonara to Dank_confidant, who’s been Legacy T.O.

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