Welcome to the very first episode of Will of the Council ! I am pleasantly surprised at the time of me writing this 99 people had voted. I'm glad people took the time and voted on their favorite deck out of the four nominees.

Sylvan Plug took out the competition pretty soundly, garnering 41% of the votes. I'm actually kind of surprised by this. I thought for sure Brave Sir Robin was going to be the clear winner, but the people want to watch Plug, arguably the coolest midrange deck Legacy has to offer. I can't really blame you. Sylvan Plug is an awesome deck, designed to punish blue decks and outclass most of the creatures regularly seen on the battlefields of Legacy.

A quick rundown of Sylvan Plug for those of you unfamiliar with it. This is a type of deck that flourishes in the right metagame. We're looking to beat decks running a ton of one mana spells. Chalice of the Void is a disgusting card, especially in Legacy where you can set it on one charge counter and pretty much nullify most of your opponent's deck. It will counter Brainstorm, Ponder, Swords to Plowshares, Deathrite Shaman, and Delver of Secrets, to name just a few. Trinisphere's goal is to hinder how many spells opponents' can cast in a given turn. Along with Wasteland, our goal is to disrupt their tempo and turn their cheap broken cards into more fair ones.

Choke is more special. It can ruin an opponent's manabase or be completely dead depending on the matchup, but it is so good at what it does that having three to four mainboard is justified, at least in Sylvan Plug. To give you a sense of just how good Choke can be, here is a pic of me playing a game where I managed to choke out my opponent.

After we've succeeded in locking our opponents out of the game with Chalice, Trinisphere, and/or Choke, we can begin unleashing monsters like Obstinate Baloth. Not only is it a good blocker and attacker, but just knowing it's in our deck will make most players too scared to +1 Liliana of the Veil or cast that Hymn to Tourach in our direction.

We also have access to Titania, Protector of Argoth, who not only produces 5/3 Elementals but allows us to recycle a fetchland or Wasteland when she enters the battlefield. There's not a whole lot of things more satisfying than destroying a land, casting Titania, then destroying another land on the same turn with the same Wasteland.

Sylvan Library is Plug's Brainstorm and Sensei's Divining Top, and we're running a playset in the main. Of course Sylvan Library is better when we also have a fetchland so we can reset the top of our library, but what also combos well with the enchantment is Courser of Kruphix. Yeah, the centaur gives away information, but if you set it up right you can leave a land on top and play it with the Courser.

The first thing I did once I learned Sylvan Plug beat out the other three decks was to check online and see if there were any updates to the list. Not being much of an innovator myself, once I saw RomarioVidal recently going 4-0 I just copied his list. He had made some tweaks since the last time I played Plug. He had replaced Stingerfling Spider for Ancient Spider because my guess is Reanimator and Sneak and Show are not very popular Online right now and Delver decks are. He also now runs a playset of Choke in the main instead of the usual three. I agreed with these changes so I ran with it, as well. One thing that did stand out to me, he was using Centaur Vinecrasher, a Commander 2015 card! Now I'm not sure if he was just testing it out or if this was the real deal, but I'm leaning toward this guy being awesome. Legacy is full of fetchlands, City of Traitors, and Wasteland, and since Vinecrasher cares about lands in ALL graveyards, I imagine this dude getting huge. At first I overlooked that he had trample, too. Once I noticed that I immediately thought of how good he is going to be against True-Name Nemesis. I'm not sure how much his second ability will come into play since Abrupt Decay can't touch him and most other removal exiles instead of destroys, but I'm sure it won't be completely irrelevant.

The sideboard is mainly just a bunch of one-ofs in order to hate on a multitude of decks. I am not the best sideboarder but I have compiled a list of when I would want to bring in each card.

Like I said, I ain't no expert sideboarder and I'm sure I missed some cases where these cards might also want to be brought in. There are just too many decks in Legacy to include every kind of match up, but if you feel I missed something pretty relevant then please leave a comment. Anywho, let's get on to the videos!

Man, I love this deck. It does a pretty darn good job controlling the game and ramping us into some really fun-to-play creatures. If you haven't played this deck and are looking for something off the beaten path, I highly encourage you to pick this up and give it a whirl.

But alas, it's time to move on, and also time to vote for the next deck! Sylvan Plug, as much as I hate doing it, has been replaced by Dragon Stompy in the new poll. Thanks for reading, watching, and voting!