In all the years I've been playing Legacy, one complaint has loudly been at the forefront for all players interested in playing the format, but unable to do so.
Legacy is too expensive. The prices of singles create an insurmountable barrier to entry for the format, and even though it seems like a cool format to play, I'll never be able to afford it. Coming in a close second to this complaint is "There's no one around me who can play," which I consider to be an extension of the first complaint — if the barrier from cost were lower, then I expect there would be more interest at the local level for players.
I come from a position of privilege when it comes to Legacy card access. In my town, Legacy roots run as deep as Magic roots, as it was one of the original hot-beds of the Type 1.
For me personally, returning to the game in the fall of after a few years' hiatus, it was naturally Legacy that caught my eye.
I am one of the fortunate players who originally owned Dual lands when I pulled them from Starter Decks RIP of Revised, so I never felt the initial sting of buying into the expensive format in the way many others did. Combining that with the fact that buying dual lands 10 years ago was a fraction of the cost of the existing market value, I had it good. That's no longer where I am. I liquidated my collection in , as real-life and an advancing case of adulthood encroached on my ability to be a care-free something, and now I am essentially in the same boat as many of you.
I say essentially, because while I personally don't own many Legacy staples, my community still does, and I know that if push came to shove I could beg or borrow a 75 card Legacy deck if necessary. Not everyone has this luxury, of course.
So then, what is an aspiring Legacy player going to do in those times when there's an itch that simply must be scratched, but your collection or budget won't warrant it?
The answer is to improvise. Let's make one thing clear right out of the gate. If you are playing any format, and especially Legacy, on a budget, you are going to disadvantage yourself by doing so. It is simply not possible to be competitive on the top levels of Magic while minimizing the investment you're willing to make. Good cards are scarce, and they are expensive as a result of this scarcity.
That's one of the facts of Magic, and as cards age and become even less available due to attrition, it will continue to be the case. The old cards are probably never going to be as cheap as they are today again, and will absolutely never be as cheap as they were in , so you may as well start accumulating them if you're serious about competing.
If you're willing to take a hit on the competitive scale and slowly build your way toward having a real Legacy collection, then here are some things you can do. First, and I cannot over state this enough: Find a store with reasonable prize support for local weekly events.
They don't even need to be Legacy events, anything that pays out reasonable amounts of store credit for Magic tournaments will do. This will be key, because success breeds a more adaptable budget. If they aren't, maybe consider finding another shop. Second, be patient. In today's world, this is a virtue that fewer possess than ever, but it can be especially difficult when you're trying to build a new Magic deck. Here's a secret: in over a decade of playing Legacy competitively, almost nothing has really changed.
All the expensive cards were expensive back then too, but the price of nearly everything has gone up. Now, things are quite a bit different, and you really need to exercise patience in acquiring cards if you don't have the scratch to just buy everything outright.
I thought the deck looked great, but I lacked almost all the cards to play it. I owned one Force of Will that I had traded off a kid in the 90's, and I admittedly did own a set of Tundra s that I had literally cracked in packs.
However, I owned next to nothing else, because my casual tournament attendance as a young kid had not prepared me for the way Magic was played at a competitive level. So, I did what I could. I took the Tundra s and tried to find a deck that I could build on a much smaller budget I was a broke college student at the time, with a weekly budget largely comprised of beer money and trying to buy bus tickets to see my girlfriend on occasion.
It was seriously bad, but it did allow me to get my foot in the door, to slowly build to a better collection by trading, winnings, and savvy purchases where I could afford them. What about the grey areas in the middle? You are playing against Shardless BUG, Clique them during their draw step and their hand is the following:. So here, the card to take would depend on your game plan.
Are you trying to grind them out? If so, you should consider taking Ancestral Vision because they can set it up via Brainstorm and Shardless Agent. Are you planning on attacking and killing them in short order? Then, you should take Liliana of the Veil and give them the chance to Ancestral Vision.
What if your hand has a Spell Pierce and you just need your Clique to survive one more turn? Then, you would probably not take anything and Pierce the Liliana or the Brainstorm to prevent Decay. The card to take or not take depends a lot on your game plan in the matchup, as well as how your own hand lines up.
Here are some final parting words on the resolution of Vendilion Clique. The targeting is announced upon resolution of the spell. Personally, I would make it very clear the spell is still on the stack by putting it behind my lands. Then, if my opponent has let it resolve, I will move it to the battlefield in front of my lands with my other creatures and announce a target for the trigger.
Do note that if your opponent reveals his hand before you announce the target, you are allowed to look at their hand and still decide to target yourself.
So, just make sure you are very clear where the Clique and the triggered ability are. Skip to content. Others say that this is a perfect addition to Neoform decks in Standard.
But it's really hard to say for sure. In either case, it won't stay at this price point. Wizards of the Coast just keep pushing new planeswalkers to new heights. Royal Scions marks a new wave of such planeswalkers that start at five loyalty counters and cost only three mana. However, there is no indication that it will go anywhere lower than that.
Murderous Rider will probably become a staple Standard card for the next two years. It is clearly a very powerful adventure card that will find a home in many decks that use black mana. The current price for this card is just right; it's not too high or too low. But this doesn't mean that it won't experience fluctuations in the future.
Just like Murderous Rider, the new Garruk planeswalker is meant to be another Standard staple. It carries the same vibe as Vraska, Relic Seeker from Ixalan , which had an incredibly strong run when it was released. Garruk will become a favorite for many MtG players, not only because of its fantastic design but also because it will hold its market price for a long period of time.
Colored equipment has started to appear in Magic: The Gathering once again. It creates certain restrictions, but in this case, it's a special weapon designed for white token-based decks in EDH.
Use this card on a creature with Trample, and you can win a game in one hit. But that's not the reason why this card got so expensive early on. This is yet another Brawl exclusive. Here is one of the most pre-ordered cards in the new set. It doesn't look like much to Standard and Modern players, but the EDH crowd loves its free card draw, even if they have to pay six mana to get the creature on board first.
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