I have heard people saying magic is bigger than it has ever been, so why would a small loss to legacy matter to SCG when they are making bank off standard and modern?
Legacy can be an expensive start up but if we had events you could start off with a deck like dredge, or burn, or belcher, and if you have modern burn there is no back breaking price barrier.
After winning these events and getting better cards/trade fodder you can decide where you want to go from there, upgrade to a mid-range priced deck like D&T or Elves.
Just a thought though.
I feel like you are paying for incremental advantages, but not necessarily to win. As above mentioned, if you cannot play your deck then the most expensive deck in the world will not get you anywhere.
At the same time someone playing with a set of shock lands vs dual lands will probably do worse due to the life loss of saving $50-$300 depending on the dual.
I thought about foiling Lands out, then I decided I would rather have the 20 other decks I could build for the cost. The Rishadan Port foils are the main reason I am not bothering though. Nice decks everyone!
Sounds like too much card disadvantage. I know we can hardcast 7 drops but this one isn't as strong. I think. If you worry about burn why not just SB 4 Leyline of Sanctity
I have been goldfishing the crap out of the original robots version. Like the results say it does nothing at least half the time, I am trying to put Pact version together now. This is all just for fun though.
EDIT: Okay I got Pact version together, and I feel really dumb. How do you play this deck? So far my results are 0% wins on turn 1, 5% on turn 2, 95% turn 5+. Plenty of non lethal tendrils/not having red mana for warrens, not having a way to activate belcher, I just don't understand what's going on. I had better luck with robots version. But I am probably missing something obvious. Tested 30 times so far.
I think if they want to protect the investors like they claim, they need to add this stuff to the reserve list. The ideal option is it's a card game just print goyf at rare.
I don't play a tier 1 2 or even 3 modern deck. I feel like there were 3 decks running modern. They banned pod so there were 2 decks running modern. Twin should be banned for balance sake, although it looks like bloom is taking over the meta but looks like it cannot beat twin.
There are plenty of blue unbans that would not wreck the format if they balanced everything else.
Why has this fallen out of flavor? Did I miss something? I have built the original robots version as my introduction into storm. There is a lot of fun interactions. I think this could be as viable as ANT and TES still, but I wouldn't know.
Legacy can be an expensive start up but if we had events you could start off with a deck like dredge, or burn, or belcher, and if you have modern burn there is no back breaking price barrier.
After winning these events and getting better cards/trade fodder you can decide where you want to go from there, upgrade to a mid-range priced deck like D&T or Elves.
Just a thought though.
top 8 modern deck at $1723 (avg)
http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=10787&d=261685&f=ST
top 8 standard deck at $954
You could sure get into legacy at these prices.
At the same time someone playing with a set of shock lands vs dual lands will probably do worse due to the life loss of saving $50-$300 depending on the dual.
Also Indomitable Archangel
EDIT: Okay I got Pact version together, and I feel really dumb. How do you play this deck? So far my results are 0% wins on turn 1, 5% on turn 2, 95% turn 5+. Plenty of non lethal tendrils/not having red mana for warrens, not having a way to activate belcher, I just don't understand what's going on. I had better luck with robots version. But I am probably missing something obvious. Tested 30 times so far.
There are plenty of blue unbans that would not wreck the format if they balanced everything else.