Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Called It

 I'm just going to take a moment here, given what's come up in the This Week In Legacy article at mtggoldfish. 

From the article:

The key question is whether Legacy as a format is fine or not. I think the format is reasonably okay at the moment, and the printings from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty definitely did a small amount of things to help push variances in the format. UR Delver still remains the top deck and I think we expected this after the banning, but there is a lot of things to be doing in the current format that isn't Delver and those decks remain very interesting to me.

Emphasis mine. 

And, just going back to what I said:

I'm going to tell you what the future will be and it's easy: the U/R Delver decks are going to up their Delver of Secrets count to four (some had gone down to as few as two), and then they're going to go right back to the well: True-Name Nemesis, Brazen Borrower, Monastery Swiftspear or Magmatic Channeler, maaaybe Ethereal Forager taking up the slack.

It'll take about a month, so from the outset people might feel "hey, it worked!" and then once the UR players have it figured out, we will be right back where we started.

Because I told y'all so.

Yes, there are other things to be doing in Legacy but the article at mtggoldfish even says that they now expect Murktide Regent to be next on the chopping block. They might be right about that! The card is incredibly good. 

But I refer you back to where I quoted myself. 

Ponder, Brainstorm, Daze, Preordain. 

The format won't truly change until one of those cards is gone-maybe not until two. 


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