Much Abrew: Legacy Curses (Nyx Fit)

by SaffronOlive // Dec 27, 2017

Hello, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Much Abrew About Nothing. Last week, we had an interesting scenario as far as our Instant Deck Techs were concerned, with Modern Shaman and Legacy Curses (which is apparently called Nyx Fit) essentially being tied for most popular. So, how do we resolve a tie? The correct answer is, we don't. Instead of playing one deck or the other, we're actually going to have two episodes of Much Abrew this week! We had Shaman on Sunday night, and today we have Legacy Curses (Nyx Fit).

As for Curses itself, the deck looks pretty interesting. While it's built around the Nic Fit shell of using Cabal Therapy to sacrifice Veteran Explorer to ramp into huge threats, rather than playing Thragtusks, Grave Titans, and other more common Nic Fit finishers, we're looking to ramp into some Curses in either Overwhelming Splendor or Cruel Reality, while we can also hard-lock non-creature spells from the game with the combo of Curse of Death's Hold and Dovescape. Having a ton of enchantment-based finishers is where the Nyx Fit name comes from, since Nyx is the enchantment-God-infested sky of Theros.

Before getting to the videos, I should warn you: it's been a while since I've played Legacy, so I'm sure a few plays were less than optimal. Legacy is a great but extremely punishing format, where searching out the wrong land on Turn 1 can be the difference between winning and losing a game. Having every decision matter is what makes the format exciting and skill intensive, but this also makes it hard because small things that don't usually matter in Modern and almost never matter in Standard end up mattering a lot in Legacy. Anyway, let's get to the videos and see if Curses has what it takes to compete in one of the most powerful formats in Magic!

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Curses!!! (Deck Tech)

Curses!!! vs. Four-Color Delver (Match 1)

Curses!!! vs. UW Miracles (Match 2)

Curses!!! vs. UWr Miracles (Match 3)

Curses!!! vs. Opalescence (Match 4)

Curses!!! vs. Maverick (Match 5)

Curses!!! (Wrap-Up)

Discussion

Conclusion

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