Leylines?
Legacy forum
Posted on July 30, 2014, 9:15 p.m. by filledelanuit
I was just watching SCG coverage and saw a Leylines deck. How does this fit into the Legacy meta?
Would it be useful to consider this deck as a budget deck along with Manaless Dredge?
It went 6-0 before finally losing steam this past weekend. Its definitely not considered a top tier deck due to its volatile nature, but if you can learn to pilot it properly it definitely is a budget friendly entry into legacy.
Soft to counter magic? Leylines in your opening hand are uncounterable...has decent protection already. It wins game 1 out of the blue very well, game 2 and 3 youll have to sideboard like a champ
July 30, 2014 10:20 p.m.
mathimus55 says... #4
Yea I was at the open this weekend and everyone that wasn't playing crammed around to watch it. It was insane. The guy did a deck tech somewhere on SCG too
July 30, 2014 10:35 p.m.
6-0? When I saw it he was 2-1-1 and the Leylines may not be counter able but the win cons are counter able, and without those the deck just folds. I was watching Joe Lossets stream last night and he was talking about how the only reason he lost was because he didnt know hot to play against the deck.
July 30, 2014 10:54 p.m.
Legacy is a such a finely tuned and shockingly fragile format that just about any rogue deck can be lucky enough to go 6-0 before playing a bad match-up.
July 31, 2014 3:11 a.m.
I'm not saying it was accidental; you don't go 6-0 in any tournament (much less Legacy) without being a good player with a decent 75 cards. I'm just pointing out that the deck's good match-ups are really good while its bad match-ups are impossible. You can always get lucky and not play your terrible match-ups in a larger tournament. That's how I imagine certain tier-2 and tier-3 decks win Legacy tournaments from time to time.
July 31, 2014 9:24 a.m.
For example, I played Wolf Run Red at SCG Phoenix a few years ago as I predicted Solar Flare to be huge at the time. I had so much mainboard hate for it that my win-percentage against it (in testing) was almost 80%. However , out of 8 rounds, I went 5-3 and played against 0 Solar Flare decks. Each person I sat next to each round I lost? Playing Solar Flare. Had I just been sitting 1 chair over each round, I'd've made Top 32, at least.
July 31, 2014 9:28 a.m.
@Khanye: The Leylines themselves can't be countered, but the deck relies on landing a turn one Serra's Sanctum into Opalescence . If you don't have enough leylines in play and can't activate Serra's Sanctum , you're prone to getting hit by Wasteland . If your opponent has Force of Will or Daze or Spell Pierce , you probably won't resolve an Opalescence .
That being said, as zandl pointed out, Leylines' good matchups aren't just good, they're really goddamn good. Dredge isn't going to win game one against a deck that's packing four Leyline of the Void mainboard. ANT's main out to Leylines is to....scoop game one to Leyline of Sanctity so they don't reveal information about what they're playing?
IzexD says... #2
Its not all that good, very soft to counter magic with just about no protection. I dont see it doing much of anything.
July 30, 2014 9:22 p.m.