[Tourney Coverage] 28-11-10 Magic Tournament Coverage

First of all, here's the updated Singapore Legacy metagame spreadsheet. Here's the decklists if you're interested. And here's some pictures courtesy of Wenhao and his new blackberry.

Seen enough? Now that that's out of the way, let's dwell into how Survival performed.

The Singapore Legacy Metagame (or How to Prepare for your Local Tournament)

A week after publishing a consolidated spreadsheet of decks that perform well in the Star City Games metagame, I present the Singaporean Legacy metagame!

The SCG Metagame

The Star City Games Legacy Open Series has provided Legacy mtg players with a good source of information to find out which decks and archetypes are performing well in the evolving legacy metagame. For the benefit of readers, I have consolidated all the SCG metagame information into a spreadsheet that can be found by clicking on the charts below:

[Brainstorming] Reanimating Ooze Survival

If you didn't know it yet Phyrexian Devourer and Triskelion in graveyard + Necrotic Ooze = GG. And Survival of the Fittest makes it work by assembling the combo all by itself. As if Vengevine is not enough, this innovative combo ends the game instantly. For those who are looking for new toys to play with in a Survival shell, you will find yet another idea explained later. But first...

How to Beat Vengevine/Madness Survival

Survival of the Fittest has always been a Legacy staple that players have built decks around. However, it is only with the incorporation of Vengevine that let Survival decks consistently top-8 in the Star City Games and also in the Singaporean meta. Here are some statistics to back the claim up.

[Brainstorming] Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) in Legacy – Affinity 2.0

The release of Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) excites every Affinity player by introducing new robots and shiny trinkets to the Legacy scene. However, the recent Star City Games Legacy Open tournament at Nashville has shown us that building a tier 1 Affinity is perhaps a distant dream. (Note that Survival posted 4 decks in the top 8 and 5 in the top 16!) Let's first take a brief look at what SOM brought to Legacy Affinity.

[Brainstorming] Chandra Ablaze in Legacy Belcher

And you think discussions about innovating Belcher revolves around whether Mox Opal is included in it? Totally wrong! Give it to Zhi Ming to throw in a planeswalker into the combo list. Given his past history of using Clearwater Goblet in Vintage (and winning against t1 combo decks with it), his new idea to throw Chandra Ablaze into 2-land Belcher is not something to neglect. Here's his decklist: