After making Top8 in the December Legacy Challenge, I unfortunately missed the January one when I was travelling all over Europe to promote Kenya and our beach resort there. Or should I just call it a hotel? Have you ever worked so much, you now even started your emails to your friends with “I trust this email finds you well”?

Anyway, I’m back in town and read to squander my mana on 1/1s. Following my previously analysis of my 2016 MKM & BoM season I decided to put my money where my mouth is and play a list with a sideboard heavily foccused on maximizing the value of my cards in the matchups I needed them the most. Storm has lately been on the rise on MTGO, which gave me even more reason to utilize the great synergy between Leovold, Emissary of Trest and Mindbreak Trap. This gave me less slots to bring in against non-linear decks, but Elves has been traditionally strong against those decks anyway so I figured I could afford having a couple fewer cards to bring in there. Ever since Leovold was printed, this is also a question of how many cards you actually want side side out against non-linear decks.

Here’s what I played:

In order to prevent spoilers I put my matchups and results at the end of this post. Feel free to skip the videos if you’re just here for the raw numbers. For everyone else, here’s the commentated videos of the matches I played during this Legacy Challenge:

Note: The 1st round is missing the audio for the first 10 min. I’m sorry, I forgot to switch on my mic!

Round 1: RG Lands

Round 2: ANT

Round 3: BUG Delver

Round 4: Aluren

Round 5: Death & Taxes

Round 6: Grixis Delver

Round 7: BUG Delver

Quarterfinals: Grixis Delver

Semifinals: Dragon Stompy

Finals: Elves

Results & Prizes:

Round 1 — RG Lands — 2:0 WIN Round 2 — ANT — 1:2 LOSS Round 3 — BUG Delver — 2:1 WIN Round 4 — Aluren — 2:0 WIN Round 5 — Death & Taxes — 2:1 WIN Round 6 — Grixis Delver — 2:0 WIN Round 7 — BUG Delver — 2:0 WIN Quarterfinals — Grixis Delver — 0:2 WIN Semifinals — Dragon Stompy — 2:1 WIN Finals — Elves — 2:1 WIN [spoiler show=”Click to view results”] [/spoiler] Thanks for watching!

So long,

Julian

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