This is a deck of pure hatred. This is not a deck concerned with "goldfishing", although it can achieve explosive wins and a fast clock out of nowhere. Almost every card in the deck is there because it hates, neutralizes, or completely obliviates other decks and strategies in the format.
There are creatures in the deck, and the deck wins by attacking through creatures. Yet that's not the focus here. The focus is Mox Diamond and Chalice of the Void for 1 on the play. The focus is having both players in madness with a Liliana of the Veil on the field. Or the focus in a different game could be using Life from the Loam, Knight of the Reliquary, and Wasteland to lock your opponent in the abyss of mana screw.
This deck won't make sense on paper to many people, certainly to most who don't play Legacy. The idea here is that you're playing a "fair deck" in a wildly unfair format. There's no key combo that they can just kill with a certain hate card of their own. If they stop Thespian's Stage and Dark Depths and you can't find that Life from the Loam, just beat them to death with the knight. This idea may seem unrealistic in comparison to decks like Charbelcher and Leylines, but I've practiced it enough that I can guarantee the percentages are there to win. Combo decks that are "too good" and consistent for this deck to beat are banned in Legacy, like Oath of Druids. Delver and Miracles decks suffer on the other end, slowly drowning to Chalice of the Void on 1 the same way a Lotus Petal + Lion's Eye Diamond deck dies to a Chalice for 0.
Legacy is such a crazy format that the idea of just playing fair is unorthodox. And to be fair, "just playing fair" in this format entails maindecking a bunch of cards that would be bad in other formats like Standard, such as Gaddock Teeg. But then again, if one of those normie decks were to challenge this deck, it wouldn't stand a chance in the first place. Legacy is all about the metagame, and the Abzan shard has access to an extremely wide range of hate. A fair deck in an unfair world.
