[Tourney Report] Top-4 Split with Enchantress

Despite a clash with GPT Singapore, 17 players gathered on 22 May 2011 in a fight for duals. All 17 decklists can be found on the MtgTrinket facebook page, as well as on our venue host Games Haven. And if you want pictures, you can find them on my facebook page.

Here's the breakdown of the decks played (Top-4 in bold):

[Legacy 101] The Archetypes of Legacy MTG

Interested in playing Legacy MTG but feeling overwhelmed by the multitude of decks played in the eternal format? Preparing for your first Legacy tournament? Have no fear cause the Legacy format is easy to grasp and prepare for once you know how.

[Legacy 101] Introduction to Enchantress (Solitaire)

Essentially a control combo deck, Enchantress has not been posting fantastic results at the SCG Legacy Open Series. Also known as Solitaire for its ability to play itself in the late game, it has posted only 1 win and no other top 16's in the past 12 events, and by that basis it is not really a deck that's performing well (either that or there's not enough players supporting the archetype). However, it boasts good matchups against aggro decks in general and is a decent deck choice given the right metagame for it to shine. Taking advantage of the metagame, that's how you can perform at a tournament.

[Tourney Report] Top 2 Split with Enchantress

On the 29th of August, 2010, an unexpected large turnout of 28 players participated in the monthly 8-proxy Legacy tournament at Games Heaven. Amongst the usual turnout of Kaiser, Yong Xin, Zhi Ming and others, there's many new faces that I do not remember seeing before. With this large turnout, the organisers have increased the prizes by 30 foil cards from From the Vault: Relics, in addition to the original 2 Force of Will, 1 Tarmogoyf, 1 Natural Order, 2 Counterbalance. With 2 copies each of foil Mox Diamond, Sol Ring, Aether Vial, Isochron Scepter, and other EDH playables in the pool, it definitely has become more competitive and rewarding for a mere $20 entry.

[Legacy 101] Introduction to 43-Lands/Blue Lands

Lands. You know you love them when you're mana screwed (unless you're playing Belcher). Some players hate being mana screwed to the extent that they created a deck filled with 60 lands. When they realised the deck sucks, they added some blue in it. And you have a deck that placed 5 top-8's out of a possible 88 slots in the past 11 SCG Legacy Open, right behind Merfolk, Zoo, Reanimator, Goblins, and ANT.

[Legacy 101] Introduction to Ubwg Landstill

Tog
Tog is primarily a MTGO player who plays a wide range of formats but not standard. Despite favouring Classic (an online counterpart of vintage) over an incomplete Legacy format (because some cards are unavailable yet), Tog got into the format when Legacy was announced to be the format of the Magic Online Championship Series. Always up to date on technologies of various formats, he's not one you want to face (if you ever do).

The name landstill comes from its trademark card, Standstill and the fact that it uses manlands to win. Landstill is an old archetype from all the way back from when Legacy was still called type 1.5 but it resembled a UW control more back then with all sorts of board sweepers. The UWBG version evolved rather recently and has done reasonably well in real life.

UW Control Lessons from America and Europe

Where did the traditional blue-white control decks go in America? With the advent of the Counter-top combo and the printing of Tarmogoyf, it seemed that Counter-top Goyf became the face of the new control. The recent emergence of Blue Lands seemed to have squeezed the remaining UW control decks out of the Top 16 in the Star City Games Open Series. In the possible 144 top-16 slots in the previous 9 SCG Legacy events, there were only 6 copies of Landstill and Thopter-Swords, the same number as Blue Lands. Moreover, the most recent copy of Landstill to make Top 16 sought out the dark side for cards like Innocent Blood, Ghastly Demise, and most importantly, Pernicious Deed. It seems that traditional UW control is more or less dead in America.