I agree with acclimation. I do quite well with death and taxes because I play it well. He does well with tin fins because he plays it well. Bobby Kovacs does well with lands, because he plays it well. Todd Anderson does well with deathblade because he was forced to play it in order to sell cards for starcity, and thus he has to get good with it. But, he wasn't even that good. half of his wins were him top-decking 3-4 bombs in a row.
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If people stuck with decks that they are familiar with and stopped jumping on the bandwagon, we could have interesting Feature Matches instead of the same decks over and over again.
i.e. Let's not turn Legacy into Standard..?
This past SCG Legacy stream felt like a Standard event with the mass amount of "deck of the week" being shown. The allure to Legacy for me originally was that I perceived it as a format where there was greater attention to the ability to pilot and manage or know the ins/outs of a deck.
I'm used to seeing the same deck (even list) in a 3 of the T8 slots in a Standard event and being in every feature match. Legacy? Please no..stop the madness. I want to watch other emerging decks or some wacky brew in the spotlight. Even if it gets stomped it's more interesting for those ingrained in the format as well for those trying to learn/get into it.
To Sparki's post above - sort of hard trying to get new players into the format if they think it's just a format of high priced cards (regardless of retained value) and there's a "best deck" they need to go with.
We all could be over analyzing this. It could be an anomaly. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Deathblade, or what ever deck could be really popular choice last weekend, maybe only todd anderson was a "known" person playing on the weekend. Im not sure but lets see if this changes, i see no benifit of getting bent out of shape over a single stream, that being said i really dont like that the legacy streams seem to be every other week or once a month.
I am not sure if I know what this SCG Stream is, but [SNIP]
Cool story bro. You should familiarize yourself with the topic being discussed. Doing any sort of "i don't know XYZ, but here's my opinion anyway!" adds nothing to the discussion.
There has been a problem with many Legacy/Vintage magic players on the east coast for quite some time. Many think the world of magic revolves around them, and that they know best. They think they should decide what happens in the format, in so much as saying what decks are good and bad. They feel that they are important because they know each other and they build each other's ego up to the point that they feel that they are better than others. Then they come to the realization in their mind that if they are this good and important, that others should also know about them and their deck ideas too.
First they started forums so people could discuss how great they were. Then they moved on to articles and mtg news stories. Now they do live coverage. They continue to build upon a false sense of what is important, that being them and their ideas.Our community is much more than the Eastern part of the US. I grew up out there. Then I lived on the West Coast for 11 years, and enjoyed a much more diverse magic scene. Now I have lived in Japan for the last 5 years, and it is even different here.
Hate to break it, but the people who started popularizing Legacy are not the ones involved with SCG Open circuits. Neither are their authors. In fact, nothing in these two paragraphs are any close resemblance of truth to them.
So let's see: 5 years in Japan, 11 on the West Coast -- that puts it around 1997 since you were last in East Coast, yes? Legacy has only been around since.. 2004 properly. This is pretty much just entirely opinion you just gave us. Cool story, bro.
The sooner you stop listening to the teachings of those in the Eastern US the sooner you will be able to grow as a player and deck builder. They talk down about what they don't think highly of in so much that excuses are made for why decks that are not of the excepted Tier 1 perform well.
You know this to be true. You have seen them say, "It wasn't a major tourney," "The deck had a good player, and he could played anything to that finish," "The field wasn't developed," or what about "The field was overly developed." They would rather make excuses when something doesn't perform to their expectations, than accept the outcome and embrace that they are not all knowing.
That's a whole lot of "facts" for not knowing about this "SCG Stream".
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Thanks for the feedback. This doesn't seem to have anything related to the concern that the SCGLive streaam is biased around one of its own writers.
We all could be over analyzing this. It could be an anomaly. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Deathblade, or what ever deck could be really popular choice last weekend, maybe only todd anderson was a "known" person playing on the weekend. Im not sure but lets see if this changes, i see no benifit of getting bent out of shape over a single stream, that being said i really dont like that the legacy streams seem to be every other week or once a month.
but looking at the top tables, it wasn't a popular choice there.
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We all could be over analyzing this. It could be an anomaly.
Its not like it was a random number generator. There are decisions involved and people were responsible for making these decisions. They deserve to get flamed for so they don't do it ever again.
We all could be over analyzing this. It could be an anomaly. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Deathblade, or what ever deck could be really popular choice last weekend, maybe only todd anderson was a "known" person playing on the weekend. Im not sure but lets see if this changes, i see no benifit of getting bent out of shape over a single stream, that being said i really dont like that the legacy streams seem to be every other week or once a month.
Since the way it was done was a conscious decision by someone and personally a decision that I didn't like I feel that it is my duty to complain about it so hopefully it does just end up being an anomaly and doesn't happen again.
Even though I play them both, I agree that Deathblade and BUG Cascade are boring decks to watch. I really don't care who is playing a deck, I just like to see interesting and varied decks on the stream. I didn't get upset when they kept showing Chris Andersen with UB Tezz last week (but it is my favorite control deck and I've been playing it for a year). I think they should film matches from the top tables but try to vary what decks they feature as much as possible. I always watch the stream a few days later on Blip.tv because I hate spending 20 minutes watching people shuffle. I also just skip matches that are boring to me.
Cool story bro. You should familiarize yourself with the topic being discussed. Doing any sort of "i don't know XYZ, but here's my opinion anyway!" adds nothing to the discussion.
Hate to break it, but the people who started popularizing Legacy are not the ones involved with SCG Open circuits. Neither are their authors.
I agree that the people popularizing Legacy are not the ones running the SCG Open Circuits, or the authors of published material. It is the community of players and the format established by WotC.
What did you not understand about Magic Macrocosm/Microcosm discussion that I said was the one thing you should remember from my post?
In fact, nothing in these two paragraphs are any close resemblance of truth to them.
I am guessing you were trying to say that your previous statement applied to what I wrote, but I never stated any of that, nor did I try to imply that.
So let's see: 5 years in Japan, 11 on the West Coast -- that puts it around 1997 since you were last in East Coast, yes? Legacy has only been around since.. 2004 properly. This is pretty much just entirely opinion you just gave us.
You got me good...are you going to set my country music award on fire? I've seen Super Troopers, so I know what it is like to live in the east.
But seriously, I have a job that has me travel. My family lives on the east coast. Matter of fact, until I returned to Japan in November, I had lived on the east coast for 6 straight months, but I didn't realize I needed to cover each and every visit/period of stay in that time zone.
I travel all the time. Heck next month I'll be in the good old USofA again...any players in Hawaii send me a PM, maybe we can hook up.
It is quite a "Cool story," and it is even better when people aren't condescending. This remark is similar to those associate with many of that microcosm I talked about.
Thanks for the feedback. This doesn't seem to have anything related to the concern that the SCGLive streaam is biased around one of its own writers.
It is an attitude that people have, much the same as to the one that you have shown me. That is the problem within our magic community, our "Magic Macrocosm" as I would say. I hope someday that you understand what I am trying to say, because people like to attack others and show their superiority, when really we need to reach and pull closer together.
I once was very divisive, and then I had the unique opportunity to share knowledge and cards with good young kids. They weren't as good of a player as I was, they didn't have the cards I had, they didn't even posses the magic knowledge of what was possible like I did, but they had one thing...time...the future...just like everything else in life, it isn't about us, it is about something much greater.
I gained nothing with my countless wins. I won everything by spending time with those that were growing up in the magic community. I gained more by sharing than I did by trying to gain power. I have a great appreciation for the time I spent with those younger magic players, and I hope that many follow this path rather than try to obtain glory for themselves. The rewards are much greater.
Be a leader, better the magic community, because it shows a better you.
Maybe I am just the equivalent to a Monk or Hermit trying to share his knowledge to better this community, but it feels better than bragging about what I have done.
The past is what it is, don't live in it.
The present is your chance to change the future.
I disagree completely! They HAD to show the BUG walkers deck, no matter who it was matched up against, it was interesting and a small innovation. To not show that in the top 8 would be a travesty!
Well I understand that, but that is you only! Not everyone is like you, and the world does not revolve around you. As a company, they need to focus on what's on the top tables...
Hey, I wasn't saying that we shouldn't have seen the BUG Walkers deck. That was one of the few things I thought was interesting all day and I loved watching it. My issues are more of did we really need to watch RUG vs. deathblade? Or with those decks I mentioned probably being in the top tables did we really need to watch any of the other deathblade matches earlier in the day instead of watching one of those?
I was thinking that when I was watching it. Man this is a lot of deathblade today, and I come on the forums and there is a post about it haha.
The way the raved about this deck is almost made it seem they are trying to push the cards in this deck to make some money. I work in sales and advertising, and that's basically what you do.... show it, and rave about it. Sunday was one big advertisement. Those esper decks seem to be running a muck, so I'm hoping to see tons of them in SCG Philly, because I feel as though JUND has been forgotten about and I will crush the esper decks like I always do. I hope their advertising works so i can cruise control into the top 16.
I agree. I am a huge fan of the death and taxes deck and it is amazing that it is finally gaining traction and becoming more popular. But it is virtually never shown on the stream because it doesn't have any dual lands or jaces or thoughtseizes or goyfs. It is quite aggravating to watch one deck over and over and over because it happens to be the most expensive legacy deck ever created.
Todd Anderson is a good player (He wins)
Deathblade is a good deck (It won-twice)
No need to hate just to hate...
Watching it over and over and over... Not good. It would only help Starcity if they had less bias approach when covering these events. I understand that it's THEIR events, and it's THEIR player winning but come on... show some variety, your gonna lose audience.
Well I understand that, but that is you only! Not everyone is like you, and the world does not revolve around you. As a company, they need to focus on what's on the top tables...
But, look at how diverse the top tables were. Sure, the amount of deathblade could have made the stream acceptable if half of the tables were deathblade. Half of the tables, however, are not Todd Anderson. That is what I disliked about the stream. You can't expect someone to want to watch a stream that is already a giant advertisement, if it becomes uninteresting. I go back and watch the old spice commercials. They are clever and varied. If the starcity games stream becomes the same commercial played over and over again, why should I watch it?
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Honestly the part that is bugging me is they used to fill the legacy tab with articles and writing and suddenly its stopped. There is nothing until the top 8 and all of a sudden we get a few generic articles.
Oh I understand completely if the complaint is about too much Todd Anderson. I don't really think the same can be said about too much deathblade in the tournament I saw.
we saw 6 rounds of it, when it wasn't represented all that much in the top tables.
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It's not really all that great of a legacy deck IMO. The strategy is not very synergistic, the mana is really greedy, and it's glacially slow. SCG probably just wants to promote the **** out of it to sell more of their expensive legacy staples, since that's basically all the deck is: expensive legacy staples, minus tarmogoyf, crammed into a deck. Also, Todd Anderson is just a good player. On top of that, he had some pretty incredible luck this past sunday. I mean seriously, did anyone else see those brainstorms? Like, what the ****. Even more so, I know at least one of his opponents was just a complete dildo in the featured match. I've never played at a legacy open, but I'd imagine a great deal of people who do play at the legacy opens are not that familiar with the format, and just aren't as skilled as some of the people who more frequently attend.
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I am still surprised that the SCG crew is allowed to play in SCG events. You would think there would be conflicts of interests. I guess I just feel bad for people who lose out to people who work for SCG that are playing in SCG events.
The most frustrating thing is that they showed deathblade in the last round of swiss when my friend, the MUD player, was the other feature match. Why on earth would they pick deathblade yet again over a really uncommon deck.
The most frustrating thing is that they showed deathblade in the last round of swiss when my friend, the MUD player, was the other feature match. Why on earth would they pick deathblade yet again over a really uncommon deck.
They recently increase the price on any of the staples in the deck like Stoneforge Mystic? Could always be just a marketing strategy as well.
Been a long-time follower of these forums and the SCG Legacy streams, but this topic prompted me to finally create an account and voice my mind.
Does anyone remember when the 12post player won that open a few months back? They showed his entire run throughout the top 8, which I thought was odd of SCG to do but incredibly awesome. To say that SCG completely ignores weird Legacy decks is not true, although this last week was way too saturated with Deathblade. In the last year or so, we've seen 12post, UB Tezzeret, Spiral Tide, TES and some other strange choices win it all, and they were all either piloted by great players or stalwarts of their own weird decks.
Now, I think trying to take away viewership from SCG in response to showing too much of one deck to try and hurt their business is the wrong thing to do. SCG has done a lot to help the Legacy scene, so damaging that seems not to be in anyone's best interest. If anything, we should ignore watching the Sealed/Limited events that have occasionally replaced the Legacy opens on Sunday. SCG claims a deck is the "deck to beat" all the time, even though they never last on top for long. First it was Jund, but that definitely does not dominate the upper tables today, and in hindsight seems like a sales pitch for them to sell Lilianas and more Deathrites. This Deathblade is just the next deck that needs to be figured out; it will probably always be a staple choice of the format but doesn't do anything too outlandish or interesting. And there's nothing wrong with them showing the best players, like Mr. Anderson.
I think if people took the time to master their pet deck instead of what SCG tells them is the best, we would get some more enjoyable matches. The aforementioned winners have done it before. People need to not be afraid to stray away from the "best of three colors" fair decks and take advantage of the wide range of Legacy strategies at their disposal.
This topic came up on my local Legacy facebook page (as it usually does). Someone brought up that, instead of hyping already powerful cards and increasing the price by $10ish (Dark Confidant), why doesn't SCG get their writers to break obscure $1-2 cards so they can increase the price of those cards by $10. It may seem more challenging than putting 38-9 of the very best Legacy staples together and calling it a deck (a monkey can put together Deathblade and it would probably have a better manabase) but the payoff can be greater. We need more pros who actually care about the format working to discover more tech.
As for "solving" Deathblade, have you seen it's manabase?? 4 colours, 3 wastelands, no basics. Someone needs to take a Bloodmoon, Price of Progress or Rishidan Port to that deck. Looks like Death and Taxes is the hero Legacy deserves.
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i.e. Let's not turn Legacy into Standard..?
This past SCG Legacy stream felt like a Standard event with the mass amount of "deck of the week" being shown. The allure to Legacy for me originally was that I perceived it as a format where there was greater attention to the ability to pilot and manage or know the ins/outs of a deck.
I'm used to seeing the same deck (even list) in a 3 of the T8 slots in a Standard event and being in every feature match. Legacy? Please no..stop the madness. I want to watch other emerging decks or some wacky brew in the spotlight. Even if it gets stomped it's more interesting for those ingrained in the format as well for those trying to learn/get into it.
To Sparki's post above - sort of hard trying to get new players into the format if they think it's just a format of high priced cards (regardless of retained value) and there's a "best deck" they need to go with.
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UWR Blade
UWB TinFins
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Cool story bro. You should familiarize yourself with the topic being discussed. Doing any sort of "i don't know XYZ, but here's my opinion anyway!" adds nothing to the discussion.
Hate to break it, but the people who started popularizing Legacy are not the ones involved with SCG Open circuits. Neither are their authors. In fact, nothing in these two paragraphs are any close resemblance of truth to them.
So let's see: 5 years in Japan, 11 on the West Coast -- that puts it around 1997 since you were last in East Coast, yes? Legacy has only been around since.. 2004 properly. This is pretty much just entirely opinion you just gave us. Cool story, bro.
That's a whole lot of "facts" for not knowing about this "SCG Stream".
Thanks for the feedback. This doesn't seem to have anything related to the concern that the SCGLive streaam is biased around one of its own writers.
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but looking at the top tables, it wasn't a popular choice there.
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Its not like it was a random number generator. There are decisions involved and people were responsible for making these decisions. They deserve to get flamed for so they don't do it ever again.
Since the way it was done was a conscious decision by someone and personally a decision that I didn't like I feel that it is my duty to complain about it so hopefully it does just end up being an anomaly and doesn't happen again.
Standard: UWR
Modern: RDW, Twin
Legacy: I am 3 Candelabra of Tawnos from being able to build almost any tier 1 or 1.5 deck. Here are the ones I care about right now:
-Aggro: UWR/RUB/WUB/RUG/UR Delver; Affinity; Burn
-Control: Stoneblade; UWr Miracles; UB Tezzeret
-Combo: Hive Mind; Combo Elves; Omni Tell; T.E.S.
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Was my analysis of what SCG Stream is, correct?
True or False?
I agree that the people popularizing Legacy are not the ones running the SCG Open Circuits, or the authors of published material. It is the community of players and the format established by WotC.
What did you not understand about Magic Macrocosm/Microcosm discussion that I said was the one thing you should remember from my post?
I am guessing you were trying to say that your previous statement applied to what I wrote, but I never stated any of that, nor did I try to imply that.
You got me good...are you going to set my country music award on fire? I've seen Super Troopers, so I know what it is like to live in the east.
But seriously, I have a job that has me travel. My family lives on the east coast. Matter of fact, until I returned to Japan in November, I had lived on the east coast for 6 straight months, but I didn't realize I needed to cover each and every visit/period of stay in that time zone.
I travel all the time. Heck next month I'll be in the good old USofA again...any players in Hawaii send me a PM, maybe we can hook up.
It is quite a "Cool story," and it is even better when people aren't condescending. This remark is similar to those associate with many of that microcosm I talked about.
It is an attitude that people have, much the same as to the one that you have shown me. That is the problem within our magic community, our "Magic Macrocosm" as I would say. I hope someday that you understand what I am trying to say, because people like to attack others and show their superiority, when really we need to reach and pull closer together.
I once was very divisive, and then I had the unique opportunity to share knowledge and cards with good young kids. They weren't as good of a player as I was, they didn't have the cards I had, they didn't even posses the magic knowledge of what was possible like I did, but they had one thing...time...the future...just like everything else in life, it isn't about us, it is about something much greater.
I gained nothing with my countless wins. I won everything by spending time with those that were growing up in the magic community. I gained more by sharing than I did by trying to gain power. I have a great appreciation for the time I spent with those younger magic players, and I hope that many follow this path rather than try to obtain glory for themselves. The rewards are much greater.
Be a leader, better the magic community, because it shows a better you.
Maybe I am just the equivalent to a Monk or Hermit trying to share his knowledge to better this community, but it feels better than bragging about what I have done.
The past is what it is, don't live in it.
The present is your chance to change the future.
The same to you,
Complete_Jank
Nothing says budget help like receiving $5000 in recommendations.
I guess leaving out Time Walk, Timetwister, and Ancestral Recall is budget.
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Hey, I wasn't saying that we shouldn't have seen the BUG Walkers deck. That was one of the few things I thought was interesting all day and I loved watching it. My issues are more of did we really need to watch RUG vs. deathblade? Or with those decks I mentioned probably being in the top tables did we really need to watch any of the other deathblade matches earlier in the day instead of watching one of those?
The way the raved about this deck is almost made it seem they are trying to push the cards in this deck to make some money. I work in sales and advertising, and that's basically what you do.... show it, and rave about it. Sunday was one big advertisement. Those esper decks seem to be running a muck, so I'm hoping to see tons of them in SCG Philly, because I feel as though JUND has been forgotten about and I will crush the esper decks like I always do. I hope their advertising works so i can cruise control into the top 16.
RUG
Enchantress
Deathblade is a good deck (It won-twice)
No need to hate just to hate...
Watching it over and over and over... Not good. It would only help Starcity if they had less bias approach when covering these events. I understand that it's THEIR events, and it's THEIR player winning but come on... show some variety, your gonna lose audience.
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But, look at how diverse the top tables were. Sure, the amount of deathblade could have made the stream acceptable if half of the tables were deathblade. Half of the tables, however, are not Todd Anderson. That is what I disliked about the stream. You can't expect someone to want to watch a stream that is already a giant advertisement, if it becomes uninteresting. I go back and watch the old spice commercials. They are clever and varied. If the starcity games stream becomes the same commercial played over and over again, why should I watch it?
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Really frustrating.
we saw 6 rounds of it, when it wasn't represented all that much in the top tables.
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yes, but not all of those matches were of todd anderson.
and only 4. Think about it. 4. That's not a large number. plus, the top tables are larger than 16 people
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They recently increase the price on any of the staples in the deck like Stoneforge Mystic? Could always be just a marketing strategy as well.
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Kobold Aggro
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Pod Nic Fit
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Omnath
Does anyone remember when the 12post player won that open a few months back? They showed his entire run throughout the top 8, which I thought was odd of SCG to do but incredibly awesome. To say that SCG completely ignores weird Legacy decks is not true, although this last week was way too saturated with Deathblade. In the last year or so, we've seen 12post, UB Tezzeret, Spiral Tide, TES and some other strange choices win it all, and they were all either piloted by great players or stalwarts of their own weird decks.
Now, I think trying to take away viewership from SCG in response to showing too much of one deck to try and hurt their business is the wrong thing to do. SCG has done a lot to help the Legacy scene, so damaging that seems not to be in anyone's best interest. If anything, we should ignore watching the Sealed/Limited events that have occasionally replaced the Legacy opens on Sunday. SCG claims a deck is the "deck to beat" all the time, even though they never last on top for long. First it was Jund, but that definitely does not dominate the upper tables today, and in hindsight seems like a sales pitch for them to sell Lilianas and more Deathrites. This Deathblade is just the next deck that needs to be figured out; it will probably always be a staple choice of the format but doesn't do anything too outlandish or interesting. And there's nothing wrong with them showing the best players, like Mr. Anderson.
I think if people took the time to master their pet deck instead of what SCG tells them is the best, we would get some more enjoyable matches. The aforementioned winners have done it before. People need to not be afraid to stray away from the "best of three colors" fair decks and take advantage of the wide range of Legacy strategies at their disposal.
As for "solving" Deathblade, have you seen it's manabase?? 4 colours, 3 wastelands, no basics. Someone needs to take a Bloodmoon, Price of Progress or Rishidan Port to that deck. Looks like Death and Taxes is the hero Legacy deserves.
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Tonight my listeners, a new power will rise,
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Your cities turn to ash, for the broadcast is cursed.
The signal is peaking and can't be reversed.
If you choose my children, you can try to hide.
But I strongly suggest you run for your life."
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