Legacy Faeries!

Hello everyone!

A couple weeks ago my Dredge deck completely disappeared. I don't know where it is.... :( Dredge isn't an expensive deck, except for the fact that I just added a set of LED to it, and I also recently foiled out my set of Cabal Therapies, among other pimped out cards like a Korean Firestorm, and other assorted foils and foreign cards.

But instead of looming in sadness of losing Dredge, I have been working on a new legacy deck that I have been having a decent amount of success with. That deck is Faeries. Here is the deck as it currently sits:

4x Delver of Secrets
3x Snapcaster Mage
3x Spellstutter Sprite
2x Vendillion Clique

4x Bitterblossom
2x Umezawa's Jitte
2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

4x Brainstorm
3x Daze
3x Force of Will
2x Ghastly Demise
2x Spell Snare
1x Mana Leak
2x Inquisition of Kozelik
2x Ponder

1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Scalding Tarn
4x Polluted Delta
2x Island
1x Swamp
4x Underground Sea
1x Riptide Laboratory
4x Mutavault
3x Wasteland

Sideboard:
3x Vampire Nighthawk
1x Force of Will
1x Perish
4x Surgical Extraction
1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2x Liliana of the Veil
3x Damnation

This list looks a little all over the place at first. If it weren't for the Delver of Secrets this would very clearly be a control deck, so why do we have Delver in here? In testing I realized that all my 1/1s weren't really putting my opponent on a clock. In the same way that Counterbalance decks will play a Tarmogoyf to apply pressure and try to close out the game before the opponent can come out of the soft lock, the same is true here. This deck is very counterspell heavy, but is also fairly tempo-based. One of the staple elements of a Faeries deck is how you play your entire game plan on your opponent's turn. This deck has 16 spells that have to be played on your turn in the form of Delver of Secrets, Jace the Mind Sculptor, Jitte, Bitterblossom, and Ponder. All of those cards are very powerful cards that your opponent will not want to be facing down, so you don't mind having to tap out for them.

Unlike RUG Delver, this delver deck is more tempo-control. This deck will slow down the game plan and let the incremental advantages of Bitterblossom, Jace, and Jitte take the game over while still countering some spells and applying pressure. If I had any complaints about this deck, I would have to say I would like to maybe cut one card for more 4-ofs. That might end up being Daze that gets the axe, but I don't want to count it out yet.

I find that sometimes the best strategy to be successful in Legacy is to just have a different game plan as sideboard space is so limited that you can never answer any deck. Play some powerful, and play something different.

That's all I have for today! Until next time, stay classy!

Ryan Lackie
Ryan.Lackie92@gmail.com
@ThingsILack