Rifter has eleven maindeck removal spells, plus Lightning Rift, Humility, and Circle of Protection: Red. Let’s go more in-depth on Rifter versus Goblins, as an example of a creature deck versus an anti-creature deck: Here is a brief sampling of Legacy according to this dichotomy: The other fundamental conflict is between creature decks and anti-creature decks. An interesting side effect of this is that Swords to Plowshares operates as faux acceleration, since the control deck just wants to survive until turn whatever to play its good cards. Since control and combo decks are ultimately about generating a lot of mana and using it efficiently, in this format they have to survive to make land drops in order to power out their bombs. It has limited applications, but is only tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand. Ancient Tomb exists, but it’s a little too situational and doesn’t produce colored mana. There are only three viable pieces of permanent, colored acceleration: Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, and Sakura-Tribe Elder. Without broken acceleration, Legacy decks cannot jump ahead on turns like Vintage decks. With a few exceptions, Legacy is fundamentally a format with two major conflicts: decks fighting for time, and the fight between creature decks and anti-creature decks.
#Creatures of aether decks how to#
So today, the Legacy author most known for tricky and controlling decks is going to show you how to swing with creatures. Maybe you’ve been paying attention and you’ve seen my litany of projects: Three-Color Astral Slide, Mono-Blue Control, Flame Vault Stax, and Doomsday. For those of you that know me at all, you know me as the Legacy guy. This is going to be a different sort of article than you’re used to from me. “ Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
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