Dead Guy Ale - A Most Interesting Legacy Deck For The Most Interesting Magic: The Gathering Players (Patreon)

Dead Guy Ale - A Most Interesting Legacy Deck For The Most Interesting Magic: The Gathering Players

A Guide To Legacy Food Chain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2WG9w_DT-Q How To Build Legacy Aluren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vizb85Wevo Special thanks to Jeff Hoogland. Watch gameplay of Jeff piloting Dead Guy Ale here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYTetn5GE1g Tolarian Community College is brought to you by Card Kingdom! You can support The Professor just by checking out their store through this link: http://www.cardkingdom.com/TCC TCC Shirts! Playmats! - http://www.tolariancommunitycollege.com/ Or you can support me directly over at Patreon -https://www.patreon.com/tolariancommunitycollege Twitter: https://twitter.com/TolarianCollege FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/TolarianCommunityCollege Decklist: Land (23) 1x Horizon Canopy 1x Karakas 4x Marsh Flats 2x Plains 3x Scrubland 1x Shambling Vent 4x Swamp 4x Verdant Catacombs 2x Wasteland 1x Windswept Heath Instant (4) 4x Swords to Plowshares Sorcery (14) 2x Collective Brutality 2x Council's Judgment 2x Inquisition of Kozilek 2x Lingering Souls 4x Thoughtseize 2x Toxic Deluge Artifact (3) 1x Batterskull 1x Sword of Feast and Famine 1x Umezawa's Jitte Creature (12) 4x Dark Confidant 4x Stoneforge Mystic 4x Tidehollow Sculler Planeswalker (4) 1x Gideon of the Trials 3x Liliana of the Veil Sideboard (15) 1x Batterskull 1x Council's Judgment 1x Ethersworn Canonist 1x Containment Priest 1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar 1x Grafdigger's Cage 2x Rest in Peace 4x Surgical Extraction 2x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 1x Kaya, Ghost Assassin Deadguy Ale is a midrange deck with disruptive elements in the Legacy format. At the core of our deck are the powerful threats Stoneforge Mystic and Dark Confidant. Dark Confidant is a must answer threat that generates card advantage every turn until he is removed. He provides a steady stream of disruption while also attacking our opponent. Stoneforge Mystic generates card advantage when it comes into play and provides utility in the form of an equipment toolbox. When we are playing against opposing creature decks we can fetch up Umezawa's Jitte to help our creatures win in combat and kill their smaller creatures. When we are playing against a combo or control deck and need to attack their hand we can search up Sword of Feast and Famine. When we are looking to buffer our life total and close a game out quickly we can search up Batterskull. We supplement our must answer threats with a variety of disruption. Tidehollow Sculler not only interrupts our opponent’s plans, but also applies pressure to their life total. Ideally we will precede one of our threats with a one mana discard spell such as Inquisition of Kozilek or Thoughtseize. Against combo decks we can take away their key cards with our efficient disruption and against interactive decks we strip away their removal so our Stoneforge Mystic or Dark Confidant can live to take over the game. When six pieces of one mana discard and Tidehollow Sculler are not enough to strip our opponent’s hand clean, we supplement our disruption further with two copies of Collective Brutality. Because we lack tools like Brainstorm to provide card selection, having a card that is flexible like Collective Brutality is valuable. When we do not need a discard spell Brutality can act as a removal spell for format stables such as Deathrite Shaman and Delver of Secrets. Collective Brutality helps generate tempo against faster decks like Burn or Elves by allowing us to trade two cards for two other cards for just two mana, letting us turn a card we would normally die with in our hand into a useful resource. For removing larger threats we have four copies of Swords to Plowshares. It is hard to beat the efficiency of removing almost any threat for just a single mana. Because our deck is fairly grindy we generally do not care about giving our opponent a few extra points of life. Also keep in mind that we can plow our own creatures in a pinch if we need some extra life against an aggressive deck. We round out our main deck with some grindy threats in Gideon of the Trials, Liliana of the Veil, and Lingering Souls. Gideon of the Trials is a fantastically flexible card. Against other decks with creatures it can act as a pseudo removal spell that encourages our opponent to extend into our Toxic Deluge. Against some combo decks, like Storm, Gideon’s emblem acts as a form of disruption that our opponent needs to answer before they can combo kill us. Liliana of the Veil is a powerful card. Against fair decks she is removal that can even answer annoying cards like True-Name Nemesis. Against combo and control decks Liliana helps grind their hand away while also looming as a threat that can take away half of their lands if she goes unchecked for too long. Music Courtesy Of: "Vintage Education" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/