This week I bring you the Cruel Control decklist that I ran the week before the SCG Worcester Legacy Open. Cruel Control is a random deck in Modern that occasionally appears in the top eight, featuring one or two copies of [casthaven]Cruel Ultimatum[/casthaven] as your late game bombshell that will usually put you in a dominant position to close the game. While the original list was different,…

On my latest Sunday stream, I tried out Vintage again with [mtg_card]Survival of the Fittest[/mtg_card]. If you missed it, the raw video will be on my YouTube channel—check it out here. I know the obvious question: “Why Survival when Oath exists?” One reason is that Survival, though nerfed by similar hate pieces like [mtg_card]Grafdigger’s Cage[/mtg_card] and [mtg_card]Containment…

We’re All Jace Here—Stompy Edition

Anyone who has been following my stream will not be surprised by this little number that I ran through a league this past Thursday. While Jace Stompy didn’t have an amazing run we did have a lot of fun. I won some odd games and ran into some variance drawing a lot of land or none at all. The deck is definitely sweet, though. The Original Version Here is the deck list that I ran this past…

This week I am taking a step back from the usual brew discussion and will be providing a bit of an update, reflections, and chat about streaming. As many of you may be aware I have been pretty hot on Stand and Replenish and trying to improve the deck as much as possible hoping to make it competitive. Overall in paper my finishes have been fairly positive. Multiple x-1 finishes at my LGS and a…

This week I wanted to discuss a brew I have been slowly testing online using [casthaven]Solemnity[/casthaven] in Twelve Post as a defensive tool. Going right into the decklist this time around I present to you: [d title=”Solemn Post” style=”embedded”] Lands 1 Bojuka Bog 4 Cloudpost 1 Dark Depths 1 Eye of Ugin 4 Forest 1 Glacial Chasm 4 Glimmerpost 1 Karakas 1 Plains 1 Riftstone Portal 2 Savannah…

We in the Legacy community have been trolled. Congratulations Bob Huang, you really used a [casthaven]Siren’s Ruse[/casthaven] to lure us all in. However, if we really wanted to try and make this Rishadan Tax game work, how would we go about that? Well, I never get tired of talking about [casthaven]Astral Slide[/casthaven] and I know none of you ever get sick of hearing about it. On that note…

Stand and Replenish Update

This week I’m simply going to follow up to my previous article with an update to Stand and Replenish. I got to bring this out the night that my last article went live and it really was a blast. One of my match wins was with this board state. Although the picture is a bit blurry, this is me punching through the last eight points of damage on my opponent with a [casthaven]Leyline of…

Recently in Legacy I have been enjoying the slow grind with [casthaven]Standstill[/casthaven]. This week isn’t much different except I really want to lock people under multiple [casthaven]Standstill[/casthaven]s. As far as I can tell I have one of two ways to do this: 1. Somehow put multiple copies on the stack. [casthaven]Leyline of Anticipation[/casthaven]? nah! 2. Return them all from your…