So I am now just getting into the legacy format and i have decided to start with a manaless dredge deck. I'm not here for a deck list or suggestions about my deck. I am here to ask 3 questions.
First question: What are the current metas for legacy.
Second question: What are legacy's strengths over the other formats
Third question: Is the power nine allowed.
Thank you for your time
So I am now just getting into the legacy format and i have decided to start with a manaless dredge deck. I'm not here for a deck list or suggestions about my deck. I am here to ask 3 questions.
First question: What are the current metas for legacy.
Second question: What are legacy's strengths over the other formats
Third question: Is the power nine allowed.
Thank you for your time
This encompasses the tier 1 and 1.5 decks. Following closely behind those are some other decks like Burn, Infect, Turbo Depths, Topless Miracles, other Delver variants, Food Chain, Aluren, Dredge, and others
2) Legacy has a huge diversity of competitive lists. It has the largest legal cardpool of any of the major formats (Vintage is slightly larger but much, much more infrequently played). Additionally, most of the top tier have fairly balanced (40-60 to 50-50) matchups against each other, which maximizes how much your play decisions can decide your matches (when compared to Modern where a huge number of matches are 20-80 or worse). On the downside, lists are fairly expensive, with the cheapest tier 1/1.5 lists coming in around $1000 and the most expensive being 3-4 times that.
3) Power Nine is not allowed in Legacy. These cards are legal only in Vintage.
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First question: What are the current metas for legacy.
Second question: What are legacy's strengths over the other formats
Third question: Is the power nine allowed.
Thank you for your time
1) The top decks at the moment are:
-Czech Pile, a UBgr Control deck featuring Leovold, Emissary of Trest, Baleful Strix, Kolaghan's Command, Deathrite Shaman, and the standard blue/black goodstuff cards.
-Grixis Delver, a UBR aggressive tempo deck featuring Delver of Secrets, Young Pyromancer, Deathrite Shaman, Gurmag Angler/True-Name Nemesis, and lots of cantrips and countermagic.
-Sneak Show, a UR Combo deck that uses Show and Tell and Sneak Attack to cheat in powerful fatties like Griselbrand and Emrakul, The Aeons Torn
-Death and Taxes, a mono-White creature-based control deck that attacks the opponents manabase with Rishadan Port, Wasteland, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Thalia, Heretic Cathar, and other taxing effects, and wins with Stoneforge Mystic into Umezawa's Jitte or Batterskull.
-RB Reanimator, a deck that uses Entomb, Collective Brutality, and Faithless Looting to set up a Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Exhume on Griselbrand, Sire of Insanity, or other fatties.
-Lands, an RG deck that uses Exploration, Crop Rotation, and Life from the Loam to attack mana via Wasteland, Rishadan Port, and Ghost Quarter, control creatures via Maze of Ith, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Veil, and Glacial Chasm, and close the game out with Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage or Grove of the Burnwillows + Punishing Fire.
-Eldrazi, a mono-colorless deck that uses lands like Ancient Tomb, Eldrazi Temple, Eye of Ugin, City of Traitors, and sometimes Cloudpost/Glimmerpost to speed out Thought-Knot Seer, Reality Smasher, Chalice of the Void, and other Eldrazi threats.
-Stoneblade, a UWr or UWBg control list centralized around Stoneforge Mystic into Jitte/Batterskull, either with white removal and Snapcaster Mage or Baleful Strix, Deathrite Shaman, and Leovold, Emissary of Trest
-ANT, a UBrg Combo list focused around the Lion's Eye Diamond-Infernal Tutor interaction, with lots of rituals, discard, and cantrips, generally going into Ad Nauseam or Past in Flames and eventually Tendrils of Agony.
-Elves, a Gb Creature-based Combo list that can create a powerful draw chain with Glimpse of Nature, Heritage Druid, and Nettle Sentinels, Natural Order into a Craterhoof Behemoth, or just value grind Elvish Visionary with Wirewood Symbiote.
-Dragon Stompy, a Mono-Red control list using Ancient Tomb, City of Traitors, Chrome Mox and Simian Spirit Guide to power out Blood Moon, Trinisphere, Chalice of the Void, Magus of the Moon, or assorted finishers
This encompasses the tier 1 and 1.5 decks. Following closely behind those are some other decks like Burn, Infect, Turbo Depths, Topless Miracles, other Delver variants, Food Chain, Aluren, Dredge, and others
2) Legacy has a huge diversity of competitive lists. It has the largest legal cardpool of any of the major formats (Vintage is slightly larger but much, much more infrequently played). Additionally, most of the top tier have fairly balanced (40-60 to 50-50) matchups against each other, which maximizes how much your play decisions can decide your matches (when compared to Modern where a huge number of matches are 20-80 or worse). On the downside, lists are fairly expensive, with the cheapest tier 1/1.5 lists coming in around $1000 and the most expensive being 3-4 times that.
3) Power Nine is not allowed in Legacy. These cards are legal only in Vintage.
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