Legacy Results – January 2012
Team Edward – Mono Black Aggro Vampires
Welcome to my first ever tournament report. Today’s blog will focus on my January 2012 legacy showing at a local shop that involved 8 other fellow MTG players. I am not a big fan of playing top tier decks, but rather using my own home brews or tweaking a tier 2 or tier 3 deck.
The deck I constructed for this event is named “Team Edward”. Team Edward is a mono-black aggro legacy deck and was designed for three purposes:
- Hand Disruptions with Discard Spells
- Graveyard Hate with cards like Bojuka Bog and Extirpate
- Having Fun with Vampire Themed creatures
Unfortunately, all opponents were armed with wooden stakes and holy water, as Team Edward floundered. To this decks credit though, there was a lot of times we were either mana hosed or ran into a mana vein. None-the-less, here is the decklist followed by my tournament report:
Team Edward
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MATCH 1 vs Mono Black Aggro, Mirror Match
Game 1
Mono Black vs Mono Black. Turn 1 I throw down an Inquisition of Kozilek to see that my opponent has a Vampire Hexmage and a Dark Depths in his opening hand. Ay Caramba, I send the Hexmage to his graveyard. However, turn 2, he top decks and puts a Vampire Hexmage onto the battlefield. I have no answer for the Hexmage as he lays down a turn 3 Dark Depths and I have no blockers. Ouch.
Sideboard
-2 Bloodline Keeper
-4 Victim of Night
+1 Extirpate
+1 Inquisition of Kozilek
+2 Diabolic Edict
+2 Consume Spirit
Game 2
Went more my way this time as I was able to Turn 2 [Dark Ritual] and cast a Phyrexian Obliterator. I was also able to make him discard the Vampire Hexmage so that I could Extirpate it. I used a Consume Spirit to drain his defending Vampire Nighthawk for 4 life and next turn casted a second Obliterator for the win.
No Sideboarding
Game 3
Battle of the Hymns. This game began with us blasting each others hands with Discard spells. We each used 3 Hymn to Tourach by turn 6. However, his last Hymn removed both of my Phyrexian Obliterators in my hand. The rest of the game would be the luck of top-decking. Unfortunately, I lost out to a Nantuko Shade and drawing Swamps for the next 5 turns.
LOSE MATCH 1-2
MATCH 2 vs Natural Order Elves
Game 1
This game went quite well for me as I was able to force my opponent into discarding his mana producing Elves and then using Extirpate to remove the other pieces of his opening hand. Within the next few turns I was able to get out a Vampire Nighthawk and Phyrexian Obliterator and keep pounding away for the win. Team Edward was even able to withstand a double dose of Natural Order that fetched my opponent a Progenitus and later an Empyrial Archangel.
Sideboard
-2 Bloodline Keeper
+2 Ratchet Bomb
Game 2
The game started off great after forcing my opponent to discard Natural Order and then using Extirpate to remove them all from the game. Unfortunately I ended up losing game 2 to an overwhelming army of Elves led by Elvish Archdruid. Making matters worse was Wirewood Symbiote that helped the green menaces avoid my removal spells.
Game 3
Team Edward through up a dud in this game as I never seen more than 2 Swamps in 9 rounds of play.
LOSE MATCH 1-2
MATCH 3 vs Ad Nauseum
Game 1
This was my first time playing an Ad Nauseum deck and to make matters worse, his entire deck was foreign cards. So my opening I used Duress and had to ask him to translate each card. I really wasn’t sure what to take from his hand, so I decided on Burning Wish. I was able to use Dark Ritual to get out a Phyrexian Obliterator and next turn Vampire Nighthawk. He appeared to be getting frustrated with his draws and after a couple of 7 point beats, he conceded the 1st game.
Sideboard
Wasn’t too sure what to sideboard in or out so I guessed…
-4 Victim of Night
+2 Ratchet Bomb
+2 Nevinyrral’s Disk
Game 2
Not sure what happened during this game. He layed a Gemstone Mine and on my turn he used Orim’s Chant to prevent me from casting any spells. His turn 2 I watched a barrage of 0 casting cost spells being played, taking his hand size down to 1 card, casting Infernal Tutor to go get and cast Ad Nauseim flipping cards over and subtracting his life total all the way down to 2. I wasn’t sure what exactly was going on, but knew from his facial expression that his luck was worse than mine that day. On my turn 3 I casted a Vampire Nighthawk and he conceded.
WIN MATCH 2-0
CONCLUSION:
Overall, I feel that I simply had some bad luck this time around. I like the base of this deck with Hymn to Tourach, Dark Ritual and Phyrexian Obliterator but I think the vampire theme has got to go. A lot of similar decks that I have found and evaluated online consist of Dark Confidant. The drawback is I would need to invest about $120.00 for a playset of four. Truthfully, I am really not that interested in dropping the money for him, so I think I will wait and see if Dark Ascension brings out a new tool that I can incorporate for next time.
