I just found your channel from this video, I love how in depth your deck techs and meta analysis is, and I love you you take time to explain exactly what you’re doing! I’m amazed that you don’t have thousands more subscribers. Cheers from a fellow Matt, looking forward to coming along for the ride!
Have you tested with karakas? The Samwise Karakas loop in a white based deck has been very oppressive in my experience and seems to have very little opportunity cost.
It’s a good idea that I hadn’t considered, especially because of the Sam synergy. The opportunity cost of another non-blue, non basic land might be too high though, the manabase already felt a kinda greedy.
This is good stuff. I’d put crystal vein in an intermediate bucket myself different to depletion lands, the odyssey and homelands saclands, etc. Crystal vein also stands to get progressively stronger as more busted 2 colorless three cmc threats are printed. It’s obviously not there yet but in another few years I could see them as necessities.
The draw back being a restriction of color used to cast colored spells. With exception of affinity you could get screwed easily by having a lack of the needed color and this is even more true with multi color decks.
Awesome video! I'm usually an island, ponder, keep kinda guy but you made me want to try more sol land strategies. Your metagame breakdown and the educational legacy videos are super informative. Keep it up Matt!
My perspective is that the ban may pre-empt a functionally approximate version of sticker goblin releasing in the near future, possibly even within MH3. This would prevent goblins from having an 8-of of an effective combo enabler.
That’s certainly a possibility. I imagine it would have to be in one of the MH3 Commander decks as that level of fast mana is likely too much for Modern to absorb. Gavin Verhey tackled the changes in the Pauper format on Good Morning Magic and I didn’t get the sense that a new version was coming down the pipeline from the language he used to talk about it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--VvdrCH0zgQ.htmlsi=etrKHA51Oh4BQaV8
VERY enlightening. Been pravticing legacy for a couple months, shifting gears every couple based on decklists but ive not been able to pick up on why they keep changing. Turns out, you just have lots of options for how you play. Long live reanimator decks!
The overall metagame and card choices made in top performing lists has so much depth to it, so understanding it can be difficult to grasp at a cursory glance. Something that I think gets lost in Magic discourse is how player preference and play-style can vastly impact what decks an individual can or will succeed with. Thanks for letting me know your thoughts, I’m glad you enjoyed it and found it useful!
@@Matt_Chow dont have a list but a friend plays it as a control deck but with the chance of beating combo doing narset+days. the list would be more or less the one u played, swapping both get lost to play the days undoing. i'd probably also cut a snappy to add a surveil land or mystic sanctuary. 1-2 lorien would also be great :)
Crucible of Words Esper Control Gameplay ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jMW5j-qDsFw.htmlsi=Vldc-oe8pYVHLDNv ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ClsHYvkhVw.htmlsi=JGsE2nKHzJ8OR_tB
Pest control is absolutely bonkers, and i would argue single handedly opened up or provided a key piece to making esper tempo and bw high tier decks. Love your content keep it up
@@Matt_Chow No and it also doesn't make sense because Mystic Sanctuary isn't good enough in current RUG Delver anyways. It was played in UR Delver mostly to recurr Expressive Iteration and you can't do the same with adventure creatures like Questing Druid. In general I would say the stock mana base of RUG Delver is 8 fetches 4 Volc 4 Wasteland 1 Tropical and then for the 18th land either a basic Island, Thundering Falls or second Tropical.
nice video! love your content as always. there's an upcoming tournament in my city and I wanted to ask if you think esper rescaminator or 4c doomsday are better positioned? I do expect some Stiflenought, though Jace WoM in the board dodges that decks interaction for doomsday
@@Matt_Chow about both equally - i'm going to run both decks through a gauntlet of meta decks with a friend, but if i remain undecided i might decide to go with doomsday due to the meta expecting tonnes of scam
It’s a fair suggestion, I’ve personally found it very clunky and slow. Days Undoing is only really good with a Narset in play and my experience is generally if I keep a Narset in play, I’m winning the game anyways
@Matt_Chow well its really just a "fuck you, I win" button. The argument of it being bad without Narset is easily applied to snapcaster mage without good spells in gy, but you got 3 of those. Another card I've really liked in Jeskai has been Triumph of Saint Katherine.
this is a super informative and easy to follow video, ive been following legacy for a year-ish at this point and i finally got mtgo. this is going to help a lot with my play patterns. thank you!
I like it more than March of Otherworldly light personally. One key interaction I forgot to mention is that it is extremely potent against Leyline Binding.
Control is a viable strategy that is at the legacy power level. Not the most explosive, and there are no free wins. Practiced pilots will get a lot out of the archetype.
It’s a relatively normal looking sideboard for a fair blue deck, lacking maindeck removal Ark4n opted for Murderous Cut in the board which also triggers Beans. www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6317337#paper
the only thing is you didn't mention the swords to plowshares maindeck plan. i understand it can be hard to get in at 30 seconds, but i will mention it as it is a very good variant currently imo. great stuff though!
Great point! When I wrote and produced this, it wasn’t a commonplace strategy to play maindeck removal, but definitely something for players to be aware of now🗡️ 🧑🌾
I think rescaminator is likely to be the best deck in the meta, with the caveat that it's very difficult to pilot. It has two fundamentally different strategies that are difficult to pilot, fair and combo. this is just hard to figure out for a lot of players. i imagine we'll see it be at the top with varying results because of this. sidenote: killabee is the goat
Rescaminator is very good, I think it may go through cycles, as players learn and internalize the leveling game. This is one of the things that makes the deck fascinating for me. It feels kinda Splinter-Twin-esque in gameplay dynamics. KillaBee is the GOAT, I agree.
Sultai Beans was 1.59% of the field, I categorized it as distinct and different from the 3-5c Bant decks with white removal. It had an overall win rate of 47.12% in 104 matches played. I think the move towards UGW/x Beans and away from Sultai is a confluence of two factors. White removal is much better against the Scam decks including Rescaminator and Triumph of St. Katherine was added to MTGO in the last week of February.
@@Matt_Chow thank you for the very detailed reply! Wow, that is a big decrease in representation, it seems like just a short while ago it had around 5%.
