Got a One Way Ticket to the Blues (Legacy MTG Deck)

This is my paper Rack/Pox paper deck atm, ratios could be off but it can win games, it's effectively 11 racks with ~15 removal, it runs no creatures because it wants to blank people's creature removal game 1 (most decks won't have anything relevant to bring in, but they'll pull their removal once they're sure I'm not on any creatures). I'm fine with having a lot of dead cards here if people aren't running creatures, but this deck doesn't adore Blue Control. The deck tends to win early on good hands, with the 'best' hands featuring 2 or 3 Racks and some ongoing discard, this doesn't lock the opponent out of playing by any means, but it makes it very hard to hold onto cards that aren't optimal to play right now, and if my clock is much over 5 it's scary how quick this can win, my Burn deck often loses to it, and that deck features 6 Draw 3 for 3 mana spells, 4 of which have have weird Flashback. My sideboard is a WIP obviously, but it has Damnation in case I need even more removal, graveyard hate to deal with such decks, and combo hate to deal with combo decks, maybe some Mutilates to add more wiping oomph? I worry those will be too small, so I'll have to think about it. Phyrexian Arena is a cool card that I loved in my old Pox deck, I feel like I might not need it here, it's good in long games, but in those games I rarely want to pay more life. In shorter games it's a dead turn in a format where games can be over before turn 3, meaning the only time I really want to see Arena is in my opener and with a Dark Ritual, I ran it as a x2 before and was pretty happy (seeing a 2nd one usually sucks, 2 copies make that happen rarely), x1 seems more reasonable for a card I rarely want to see, but sometimes really want.

I have a pretty different deck as my 'goals' Legacy Discard deck, it's 12 Rack Diesel, it runs on many similar premises, but it has a higher budget and is probably a better deck, but this deck seems like it's one of my most disruptive decks in 1v1. I think it could be reworked into a multiplayer deck too pretty easily, who knows?

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To Wipe, or to Just Edict? — Feb. 16, 2024

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I have x2 Bontu's Last Reckoning in here now, which helps deal with creature heavy decks that have set up by turn 3-5, this deck definitely can't count on hitting 4 mana for Damnation, but Reckoning's 3 mana is suspiciously useful. It plays well with the board dependent nature of the deck, since I don't run creatures at all. I did replace my Leechridden Swamps with Hives, Hives are a non-bo with card:ensaring bridge, but I don't really care because people removing my stuff may well remove my Discard Enchantments if I have multiple Racks out, and Hives have a very low opportunity cost, tending to enter untapped when it matters and tapping for Black. Bridge is a nice trick to have vs decks that have larger creatures, but even 2 or 3 power creatures are pretty easy to lock out if I have one of my Enchantments pruning my hand, and sometimes I can keep my hand at 0 cards, meaning nobody is swinging meaningfully. The Hives are pretty nifty in slower games, so they have good synergy with my wipes and edicts, especially since they come with menace. I feel much better about these than I would Mishra's Factory, colorless really sucks in a deck like this.

I am thinking about trimming back more of my Smallpox, probably add more Davriels or Reckonings, though perhaps better options exist? The issue is I don't want to lose lands if I'm on Hives. I feel like 2 Reckonings is good mainboard, and I'm not sure if I'd want another Bridge main without something like Oppression. I could just sneak in a copy or 2 of Phyrexian Arena as card draw?? I mean, I rarely go long, but it's not like Dark Ritual into Arena is a bad turn 1 play last I checked.

But what about Bontu's Last Reckoning? — July 19, 2023

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Leechridden Win Con? — June 9, 2023

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51% Casual

49% Competitive

Date added	10 months
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 13 - 7 Rares 17 - 4 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.88
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