The Modern Impact On Legacy

Hi everybody, and welcome back to Strictly Average MTG. Did you have a great weekend? I hope you had a chance to tune into the Team Constructed event in Philadelphia this past weekend hosted by Star City Games (SCG). Legacy has been a format that is still popular with many players in the community, but has had one big stigma over its head for a long time. Price. It’s an expensive format for sure, and a large part of that has been due to the support SCG has put into the format (see last week’s article for how they did

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Modern Madness: WB Curses

Curses is an Enchantment, Aura/Curse, prison deck whose goal is to create a soft lock on creature and planeswalker-based decks by cheating and into play using . Following this, the deck uses and as finishers. The deck uses hand disruptions such as and to disrupt combo decks as well as protect its hand from potential answers, such as counter spells. The deck also uses mana acceleration in the form of , , and in order to cast Misfortunes as fast as possible. Lastly, the deck runs as Misfortunes numbers 5-8 and as a quick tutor for if our opponent is

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The London Mulligan – Legacy Edition!

Hello everyone! I know it’s been a bit since I’ve written an article, but such is the life of a student. The biggest development for Legacy over the past few weeks was the introduction of a new mulligan rule. The new rule, called the London Mulligan as it will be tested at the Mythic Championship in London, changes mulliganing in a big way. Unlike the Vancouver mulligan, where you draw one less card for each successive mulligan, the London mulligan allows you to redraw a full seven! That’s right, seven! When you are done mulliganing, you return X cards from

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The Team SA Legacy Experience

Howdy folks! Boy, it’s been a while since I wrote an article for here. You see, I’ve been mostly in the background of things on the website these days, helping manage the people you see writing for this site now. That being said, I wanted to take some time to talk about my part in the StarCityGames Cincinnati Team Open, playing alongside Scott Campbell (MTGPackFoils) and Jeremy Beardsley (StrictlyAverage). Friday – Fun Prep and Legacy Legacy is a format I greatly adore, and I spend a lot of time with it. Unsurprisingly, Legacy is the format I wanted to play

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