Legacy
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- Legacy redirects here. This article is about the sanctioned Magic tournament format. For other uses, see Legacy (disambiguation).
Legacy, formerly known as Type 1.5, is an eternal format with a more limited card pool than Vintage. Whereas Vintage only bans "dexterity cards", cards related to ante or subgame cards, Legacy has a considerable number of cards banned solely due to their power. Fast mana is more difficult to generate thereby causing slightly slower games.
Legacy was created from the little-used format known as Classic-Restricted, which was simply a format where all the cards restricted in Type 1 format were banned instead. In the fall of 2004, the decision was made to seperate the two formats, including Legacy having a Banned List separate from Vintage. An online poll was held on Aaron Forsythe's Latest Developments column, with Legacy winning the 25.5% of the vote.[1]
The DCI has more recently begun organizing larger tournaments in the format, which has caused a noticeable increase in the number of players trying Legacy.
Constructed decks must contain a minimum of sixty cards. There is no maximum deck size; however, you must be able to shuffle your deck with no assistance. If a player wishes to use a sideboard, it must contain exactly fifteen cards.
With the exception of basic land cards, a player’s combined deck and sideboard may not contain more than four of any individual card, counted by its English card title equivalent. All cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest are basic. (The five Ice Age snow-covered lands — Snow-Covered Plains, Snow-Covered Island, Snow-Covered Swamp, Snow-Covered Mountain, and Snow-Covered Forest — are also basic lands. Note that snow-covered lands are permitted only in formats that allow the Ice Age set to be used.)
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[edit] Cards legal in Legacy
[edit] Legal Sets
Every black and white bordered set of Magic: The Gathering is legal in this format.
[edit] Legacy banned List
The following cards are banned in Legacy tournaments.
- Amulet of Quoz
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Black Lotus
- Black Vise
- Bronze Tablet
- Channel
- Chaos Orb
- Contract from Below
- Darkpact
- Demonic Attorney
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Earthcraft
- Falling Star
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Frantic Search
- Goblin Recruiter
- Grim Monolith
- Gush
- Hermit Druid
- Illusionary Mask
- Imperial Seal
- Jeweled Bird
- Land Tax
- Library of Alexandria
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Drain
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mind Twist
- Mind’s Desire
- Mishra's Workshop
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Necropotence
- Oath of Druids
- Rebirth
- Shahrazad
- Skullclamp
- Sol Ring
- Strip Mine
- Tempest Efreet
- Time Spiral
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Timmerian Fiends
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Vampiric Tutor
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Worldgorger Dragon
- Yawgmoth’s Bargain
- Yawgmoth’s Will
[edit] Major Archetypes in Legacy
Arguably the best archetypes in Legacy are currently Countertop, Threshold, Landstill, Merfolk and Zoo.
Other major archetypes include:
- Ad Nauseam Tendrils
- Aggro Loam
- Dragon Stompy
- Eva Green
- Faerie Stompy
- Goblins
- Goyf Sligh
- Ichorid
- Landstill
- Survival
- Team America
- The Epic Storm
- The Rock
[edit] References
- ↑ "Something Not In Unhinged…", by Aaron Forsythe, MTG.com, Friday, November 12, 2004.
