Throne of Geth was the last bit of spicy tech, and it’s so spicy that multiple people assumed that it was a typo for Geth’s Verdict instead. You can also use Reanimate as a way to rebuy a dead Shadow or Delver, which comes up often enough. I had Chancellor of the Annex in play multiple times, and it was great. Thoughtseize the opponent and then Reanimate them, stealing whatever large creature they are foolish enough to be playing. The “normal” use was to Reanimate Street Wraith, which gave you a turn-1 3/4 that’s immune to Bolt, Fatal Push, and swampwalks past Baleful Strix, while costing you enough life that you can play Shadow on turn 2. Two was the perfect number, as it isn’t always on and does cost life, but they really took the deck to the next level. Wrapter (whose deck building prowess needs no explanation) added Reanimate. That’s especially important in a deck with Ponder and Brainstorm, because it means that you can stop on two lands way more often than the 3-color versions, as well as being much more resilient to Wasteland. While being straight U/B means that you have to play some unconventional answers to Chalice of the Void (more on that later), only needing blue and black mana makes the mana base so much better. The first thing we did with Death’s Shadow was to cut the splash color and add a second Underground Sea.
I know he’s going to read this section three times to try and figure out the beat, but there isn’t one, and I’m somewhat insulted that he assumes there is one. He’s got good instincts and I like how he approaches deck building, and he did a ton of the work on this U/B Shadow deck. Not Matt Nass underrated, which is actually overrated, but actual underrated, especially when it comes to deck tuning. The deck looked like the direction we wanted, and we knew we could fall back on R/U/G or Grixis Delver if we struck out.Īside on BK (Andrew Baeckstrom): BK is a newly-minted Platinum pro, and definitely underrated. I tried playing Grixis Control, but it was hard to combat the combo matchup, as the different combo decks attacked from many angles, so from pretty early on we decided that we wanted to be the aggressor.ĭeath and Taxes is a great deck too, but my teammates would have murdered me if I didn’t include Brainstorm in my deck, and I had four foil Masques ones I was just waiting to break out.Īfter BK spotted Oliver Tomajko playing Grixis Death’s Shadow at a team SCG, we started working on the list. We ended up on this because we wanted a proactive deck, due to how big of a format Legacy is, and how difficult it is to fight against the linear decks.
You clock them quickly and have a lot of ways of stopping them from enacting their plan, making this a classic aggro-control deck, which in Legacy can basically be summed up as a “Delver deck. The game plan of this deck is simple: pressure the opponent with a fast creature, while disrupting them with Wasteland, Thoughtseize, and counterspells.
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