I actually run 5 TL decks now and am brainstorming a 6th.
Athreos Knights - is very fun and I use it to introduce new players to the game. (hakkon is great in this deck)
Animar Hydras - is my deck to show people ways they can bend the rules of the format.
Alesha Land Destruction - is not fun... just strong I only play it against people who like the challenge... or who hate me anyway.
Umezawa Mill was my first tournament level TL deck... because Mill is rediculous in the format.
But at the moment I would have to say my favorite deck is
Lilliana, Heretical Healer - Hand Destruction.- I know she is not a card yet but I just had to build her and she is just a super fun deck to play and to play against.
I am currently in the process of brainstorming a mono-red ZoZu the Punisher deck but I am not sure if the general will be ZoZu, Feldon or Zurgo.
TL has become my favorite format so it irks me when people who either don't play the format at all or have "played a game with a friends deck" jump to conclusions.
TL is a game that resembles a lot of things on the surface but in truth is extremely deep and unique in magic.
Once you play TL for a while you will find a lot of space that you never considered before because you didn't have to.
I have found TL to be more SB dependent than any other format adding a great layer of strategy.
I have also found TL to have an extremely fluid meta.
the combination of smaller deck size and singleton makes the format more diverse than traditional 60/4 deck rules but it also makes those obscure single card answers to a strategy extremely relevant.
but of course to each their own. I think that to enjoy TL you have to be primarily a lover of deck building and not mind building and tweaking constantly. If you are the kind of person who wants to just perfect the game to game play and skill of a specific archetype you will likley want to just net deck a legacy deck and go from there. this takes a great amount of skill and I dont look down on that. but you likley will not enjoy the dynamics of TL.
Same for an EDH player who enjoys deck crafting but wants an environment where they can make a few wonkey decisions that wont punish them. nothing wrong with that but TL is a bit too efficient for that kind of play.
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I said something similar about damnation in FTV: Annihilation
so consider me gobsmacked.
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We got 14 players and may have had more if not for the short notice.
The winning deck was an abzan good stuff deck lead by anafenza and second place was high tide/brain freeze lead by Kami of the crescent moon.
there were only 2 Geist Decks.
I think it was a pretty good show of the format. if you guys want I can even post decklists once I get them input.
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Athreos Knights - is very fun and I use it to introduce new players to the game. (hakkon is great in this deck)
Animar Hydras - is my deck to show people ways they can bend the rules of the format.
Alesha Land Destruction - is not fun... just strong
Umezawa Mill was my first tournament level TL deck... because Mill is rediculous in the format.
But at the moment I would have to say my favorite deck is
Lilliana, Heretical Healer - Hand Destruction.- I know she is not a card yet but I just had to build her and she is just a super fun deck to play and to play against.
I am currently in the process of brainstorming a mono-red ZoZu the Punisher deck but I am not sure if the general will be ZoZu, Feldon or Zurgo.
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TL is a game that resembles a lot of things on the surface but in truth is extremely deep and unique in magic.
Once you play TL for a while you will find a lot of space that you never considered before because you didn't have to.
I have found TL to be more SB dependent than any other format adding a great layer of strategy.
I have also found TL to have an extremely fluid meta.
the combination of smaller deck size and singleton makes the format more diverse than traditional 60/4 deck rules but it also makes those obscure single card answers to a strategy extremely relevant.
but of course to each their own. I think that to enjoy TL you have to be primarily a lover of deck building and not mind building and tweaking constantly. If you are the kind of person who wants to just perfect the game to game play and skill of a specific archetype you will likley want to just net deck a legacy deck and go from there. this takes a great amount of skill and I dont look down on that. but you likley will not enjoy the dynamics of TL.
Same for an EDH player who enjoys deck crafting but wants an environment where they can make a few wonkey decisions that wont punish them. nothing wrong with that but TL is a bit too efficient for that kind of play.