Welcome to August’s London Legacy Monthly report! We sold out again! Remember to get your tickets for next months event as soon as possible so we can sort out the prizepool. You can find them at LondonLegacyMonthly.com

August’s prizes were as follows:

London Legacy Monthly - August - Metagame

Deck No. of Players Deck No. of Players Grixis Delver 8 Esper Deathblade 1 Goblins 5 Infect 1 Death and Taxes (Inc Red) 3 Manaless Dredge 1 Lands 3 Miracles 1 4C Control 3 Moon Stompy 1 Elves 2 Mono R Storm 1 Mono R Sneak 2 Rug Delver 1 MUD 2 Punishing Maverick 1 Alluren 1 Punishing Theives 1 Aggro Loam 1 Sneak and Show 1 Bant Deathblade 1 TES 1 BG Pox 1 Turbo Depths 1 DeadGuy Ale 1 UR Delver 1 Deathblade 1 White Eldrazi 1 Demonic Pact 1

Grixis Delver is still the most played deck at London Legacy Monthly but the rest of the field has spread out as people look for decks to attack the metagame. This month there were 30 unique deck choices, 9 more than last month.

Death and Taxes has continued to lose players as has Lands. A number of people decided to continue the tribal theme from last month by bringing Goblins. Marcelo has always put up good results with the deck, even winning a previous LLM. However, I don’t think the deck is currently very good in this metagame. Perhaps they were hoping to face plenty of their good matchup? Czech Pile perhaps? What actually happened was Karl Naylor played against bunch of Goblins players and used his easy wins to make Top4!

For those of you looking for a tip for the upcoming massive Legacy Event at Nationals (24 tickets remain at time of writing) I would not take too much notice of the metagame at LLM. While our events are the largest regular ones in the country, the ease with which people can change decks means the minutia of the metagame can be volatile and somewhat un-reliable. That being said, the obvious conclusions people have about Legacy currently (Grixis Delver is the deck to beat) are born out at our events. One interesting thing to note is that we only had five true combo decks this month and only two the month before. It seems that London players don’t enjoy that side of the game at the moment. If you think the small number of combo decks is statistically significant then you have two options. Either prepare a midrange deck that will beat all the other ones you expect to face, or bring a fast combo deck yourself to prey on those same midrange decks. Either way, good luck to all of you who will be n Derby this weekend!

This month Diego crushed the swiss rounds going undefeated! Commiserations to our own Claude Schmit playing Mono Red Storm (see later) for coming ninth and missing out on tie breakers. You are going to have to do well next month to get back to the top of the Leaderboard!

After 7 rounds our Top8 looked like this

Diego Massone Tom Brown Karl Naylor Joe Baddeley Ed Paszek Nic Genieis Hannah Lissaman Eugenio Gomez Martinez

Pics from the Top 8 Matches and the event

Well done to Tom Brown for winning London Legacy Monthly August! His second victory puts him top of the leaderboard!

Top 8 Lists

1st – Tom Brown

4C Control

2nd – Diego Massone

Punishing Thieves

3rd/4th – Karl Naylor

Dead Guy Ale

3rd/4th – Joe Baddeley

Grixis Delver

5th – 8th – Nicolas Genieis

Goblins

5th – 8th – Hannah Lissaman

TES

5th – 8th – Eugenio Gomez Martinez

Red and Taxes

5th – 8th – Ed Paszek

Sneak and Breach

Spice Corner

Claude came ninth with this deck.

‘I thought it was a complete train wreck of a deck, but it was surprisingly consistent and powerful. Maybe not as bad as it looks at first sight.’

Mono Red Storm

This deck has been doing the rounds a bit on MTGGoldfish and MTG The Source recently where you can find more information about the deck. It is a fun brew that eschews consistency for fun and budget considerations.

Thanks to everyone who came along and made August such a great event!

This months LLM, September, will be Tom Caddens last as he is moving back to Scotland. Tom has been our biggest and best supporter so it would be great if as many of you as possible can come and give him the great send off he deserves. You can find tickets for September and all other details on the groups website, LondonLegacyMonthly.com

Come and say Hi in September!

Tom Kellock

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