Legacy Tourney

**TheAbe** · December 10th, 2009, 05:13 PM

Playing at one on Sat,m need to build a deck. Suggestions of decks Abe likes?

**TheAbe** · December 10th, 2009, 05:17 PM

And I just can;t play something like Counterbalance or crap like that, so don;t even suggest it. Also want to steer clear of something too tricky.

Perhaps I can dust off Pox. I know it inside and out.

**TheAbe** · December 10th, 2009, 05:27 PM

Quick decklist off the top of Abe's head:

4 Duress
4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn
4 Pox
2 Nether Spirit
2 Cursed Scroll
4 The Rack
4 Innocent Blood
4 Sinkhole
2 Smallpox
4 Factories
4 Wastes
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
16 Swamps

Sideboard:

2 Cursed Scroll
2 Tombstalker
4 Phyrexian Negator
Other stuff as needed

????

Probably suck. Thoughts? Smallpoxes are very changeable to things like Thoughtseize or more creature removal, etc. Innocent Blood + Pox + Smallpox all kill Marit-Lage, so I have 10 maindeck cards that just happen to handle it. Factories & Cursed Scroll good vs Standstill or Counterbalance. Have quick disruption for some decks.

Pox sometimes runs out of steam though, and you have to watch out for that. Need sideboard for certain cards. For example, Sinkhole bad in certain matches against need few lands, so instead slide into other stuff like Cursed Scrolls and Tombstalkers (they are usually aggro decks that have that need)

**TheAbe** · December 10th, 2009, 05:51 PM

Oh, and I would be raped by Dredge

**TheAbe** · December 11th, 2009, 01:42 AM

Other cards great for Pox include Liliana Vess (wins more than you think), Crucible of Worlds, and sideboard Damnation. With Damnations and Negators in the board, you can slide into more aggro vs creature-less control or more control vs aggro.

**TheAbe** · December 11th, 2009, 10:25 AM

Okay, here are rthe porblems with my decklist above.

1). It includes cards that make it weak vs certain matchups. For example, innocent Blood rocks vs creature based decks with a high count of critters, namely aggro, Sinkhole blows vs aggro. Sinkhole rocks vs control and some combo decks. Sinkhole blows vs aggro. So, vs Aggro I side out the Sinkhole and vs Control I side out the Bloods. Which means in any basic matchup, I have cards that are not great. Why do that?

I'm just playin at Stadium, but that seems a lit chaotic.

I could not find any Tombstalkers for my board, and just one Thoughtseize. I also found just three Dark Rituals, but I hope to grab a fourth with more searchings. I found a 3rd Urborg, so that's nice.

Everything else is here, two Nether Spirits, 2 Cursed Scrolls, 4 Pox, 4 Hymns, 4 Duress, 4 Racks, 4 Factories, II have just 3 Sinkholes and would have to search Abedraft for th e 4th, so I am considering moving those to the board for control matchups to replace the Bloods. That frees up four maindeck slots I could use for:

Smallpox
My only Cruible of Worlds (I think I have a 2nd in H&J)
Liliana Vess (I have two)
The one Thoughtseize

Cards I pulled out for the board include my one Pithing Needle, my only Nether Void, Negators (found only 3), extra Scroll, 3 Chalices, 3 Damnation, 2 dEATH cLOUD, 2 sMALLPOX, 3 Dystopia, 2 Sp8inning Darkness, 4 Extirpates. I can fiugre it out from there.