Hello,  my name is Marcelo Medeiros, I’m Spym4n from Magic Online. I’m a public enemy of the blue color and I love land-based decks (BG Depths, Turbo Depths, Rainbow Depths, Naya Depths, Lands). Last Sunday (August, 6), we had the CLC (Circuito Legacy Catarinense), a league from the State of Santa Catarina, which is located in the south of Brazil.  

Brazil is an intercontinental country and its Southern part has a pleasant climate, in addition to beautiful cities and beaches. If you are curious, here are some photos of the main tourist attractions in Santa Catarina State: Santa Catarina | Brazil – Google Images 

The CLC took place in Itajaí City, which is 1 hour by car from the capital Florianópolis, which is where I live. We had 4 friends in the car, some already known at MOL, such as Vicente (MahfuzVanGogh, 3 times Challenge Champion, Dredge player) and Jardel (Vurtner, Delver player). We got there, prepared our decks and started our Legacy Sunday! In CLC, we played one more round and we don’t have a cut for TOP 8. We had 36 players and it would be 7 rounds (6+1).  

Here is the decklist:

Match 1 against Grixis Delver  

My opponent was a guy I like a lot, he always played with Depths variants, but he migrated to tempo decks.  

Game 1: Generally a favorable game for Lands, but my deck was still warming up and didn’t want to work. I started with a good hand that had Urza’s Saga, Mox, Lantern, Cycler, and land. He hit a Wasteland in my Saga and I didn’t buy anything else. He resolved some creatures, I landed a Tabby but it wasn’t enough.  

Game 2: He started out slow, with mana into Ponder, which set me off for hates. I was making lands patiently, while he had no pressure. Eventually, when he casted a Delver and a DRC, I tried to Endurance EOT, which he countered with a Force of Will. I made land and passed. He casted a Murktide and passed again. Then, I cast Choke with 2 blasts backup and a Tabby in the sequence. He only had one untapped land and I had a Maze. He could have paid Tabby to Murktide and tried to buy a Waste, but instead he casted a Brainstorm EOT and conceded right after.  

Game 3: He came out extremely aggressive and with perfect counters to my answers. Again in this game, I only needed one Loam, which I didn’t find the whole game. In this game, I bought 2 Explorations and 2 Mox with nothing in hand, which sealed my defeat. Looking back on the match, I think I should have been more aggressive and made the 20/20 earlier. It took me a while to do it and he had the Borrower. He killed me with 6 creatures on the field and I only had 2 Mazes.  
 
Match: 1-2 

Tournament: 0-1 

Match 2 against Burn  

I had seen him at the table on my side, playing Burn, so the rule is clear. Invoke Marit Lage as soon as possible.  

Game 1: I mull to 5 and found Saga, Fetch, Exploration, Thespian and Crop. I made Forest, Exploration and Saga. On the next turn, I drew another land and casted the Crop EOT for the win.  

Game 2: Mulligan to 4 this time, but I couldn’t find the combo pieces, just a Crop Rotation. He started with Goblin Guide, which revealed a Fetch. On my turn, I Fetched, landed a Forest, Exploration, and made another fetch. He came back with Monastery, burned and attacked, taking me to 10 health and revealing a Thespian. I landed the Thespian and a Blast Zone and passed. He attacked again, I cracked the fetch, used the Xrop to get the Depths and invoke the Marit Lage. I blocked Monastery and took damage from Guide. He had two cards in his hand, they were two bolts that took me to 1 life. I won on the following turn. 
 
Match: 2-1 

Tournament: 1-1 

Match 3 against BR Reanimator 

I had no idea what he was playing, he’s a new player in the event. 

Game 1: Mull to 6 and found a fast hand. He started with Reanimator’s God hand. Grief, discarding my Crop, mana, ritual, Seize on himself, discarding Serra’s Emissary and reanimate. Interestingly he named “Instants” with the Emissary which gave me a window to find Maze and gain time. I didn’t find Maze or tutor for the next 3 turns and I died.  

Game 2: Mull to 6 again and found Endurance, Exploration, Faerie Macabre and lands. I made Saga and passed, leaving Exploration as pitch. He discarded my Faerie and passed. On my turn, I drew another Exploration, made Yavimaya and waste his Badlands. He made Polluted Delta and passed. I resolve the third counter at Saga and asked if I could pick it up. He said yes and I used a Needle naming Polluted Delta. He wanted to use fetch in response and I explained that it wasn’t possible. He takes a card, made another Delta. I top deck a Lantern and he conceded.  

Game 3: I found Macabre and Endurance with pitch. He started slow, with Faithless Looting. I top deck again a Lantern and I was super safe. Used some Wastelands and found Loam. Then I found Exploration, Thespian and Depths. He discarded my Endurance and Macabre and tried to revive a Grisel and I used Lantern. He used Animate Dead on my Endurance to not die to Marit Lage. I attacked and he blocked. On the next turn, he revived the Endurance again and again blocked. The third time, he had no more answers. 

Match 2-1 

Tournament: 2-1 

Match 4 against UB Shadow  

I already knew the Player but didn’t know what he was playing.  

Game 1: I started with Mana, Exploration, Saga and he had no counters. He made fetch, Watery Grave, Thoughtseize, and discarded my Gamble. I made two more lands and got ready for constructs. He made another fetch, went for another Watery Grave, going to 12 health and casting 2 Death Shadow. I decided not to make construct EOT (you will understand my line of play). In my main phase, with the saga trigger on the stack, I made a construct and used crop rotation. He thought long and hard and let it resolves. I looked for a Grove of the Burnwillows and gave him one life, killing the two Shadows. He conceded a few turns later. He commented that he didn’t expect me to not make constructs and get Grove. Cool move 😁👍  

Game 2: He started with a discard and took away my acceleration. I Wasteland his land but he had the Surgical and took two more that were in my hand (my mistake here). He was making land drops and casting threats. I tried a Choke that hit a FOW. I did Crop for Tabby, but he had too many lands. He resolved a Murktide and I found a Maze next. Unfortunately, his next draw was a Wasteland and he ran me over with the Dragon.  

Game 3: This game was interesting. He had no discard, but he was making several threats with Shadow and Orcs. I’ve been taking some damage and shaping my hand to resolve a Choke. I casted the Choke with a backup Pyro, but he had two counters. Still, I cropped for Tabby and he paid for the Orcs and Shadow. He found a Murktide and I managed to make a Marit Lage. I hit the 20/20 and he used Murktide to block. His Shadow was small so he didn’t have lethal. He made two cantrips to try to find the Borrower, but he didn’t find it and conceded.  

Match: 2-1 

Tournament: 3-1 

Match 5 vs Cloudpost  

I also already knew this player and I already knew that they were from Post. Tough match, but let’s do it!  

Game 1: I started with Yavimaya, Exploration, Fetch. He did a Once Upon a Time and found a Karakas, thwarting my Marit Lage plan. He made a Needle for Wasteland and passed. I found a Needle from the top, made Needle for Karakas and two more lands. He made a reclaimer and passed. I did a crop rotation and invoked the 20/20. He conceded.  

Game 2: This game took longer. I was casting my permanents carefully so as not to be destroyed by a Force of Vigor. He was making lands and found a Reclaimer that I killed with Punishing Fire. I was making Wastelands to control the lands and coming back with Loam. He found a Needle for my Wasteland but I found a Ghost Quarter to keep controlling the board. Eventually I found a Blast Zone to destroy the two Needles and he conceded.  

Match: 2-0 

Tournament: 4-1 

Match 6 against Jeskai Day’s Undoing  

Carlos is a well-known control player. He plays very well and I knew it was going to be a very exhausting and difficult match.  

Game 1: I knew I had to put pressure at the beginning and not make his life easy to resolve a Day’s Undoing. I started with a great hand: Mox discarding Depths, Exploration, Saga, Fetch. I looked for a Taiga and casted a Gamble for Loam, who went to the graveyard. The opponent made an Island, Ponder. I dredged the Loam and another Loam dropped in the graveyard. I cast Loam and it hit a Force of Negation. On the next turn, I made a token and got a Lantern with Saga. Tried to Loam and this time hit a Force of Will. My opponent was left with only 1 in his hand. He came back with Narset and found a Dress Down that killed my tokens.

From there it was an insane exchange of resources. I made tokens, he killed them with Dress Down. Eventually I found a Blast Zone when he had Teferi and Narset. I raised Blast Zone to 3 and cleared his table. At that point in the game, I already had 1/3 of the deck and he had about 25 cards. He had 6 mana and resolved a Narset and found Days Undoing. I used the Lantern in response and it ran him out of some important resources. The game continued with me putting pressure on with tokens and him controlling with Dress Down and removal. He found a Jace and made a True-Name Nemesis and Hullbreacher. I had 3 tokens and had a basic island that made tokens (Thespian with Saga counters). Once again he found a Dress Down and lowered my life with his creatures. I tried to make a Marit Lage to take Plow and stay alive, but he had found an Emperor to exile my creature. I managed to set the Blast zone again to clear his table and the next turn, but he again resolved Narset and Days Undoing. Again I had Lantern and exiled a few more cards, including their win conditions (Jace, Emperor). He found one more True-Name, but at that point I would win the race with my tokens. With 8 minutes left in the round, he conceded. All the other rounds were over by this point and there was a crowd watching, the crowd went crazy with the level of this game, it was pretty cool to see their reactions 😯 

Game 2: Little time to play (less than 5 minutes) and he came up with a Stoneblade plan. He kept a hand without counters, but very quickly with Stoneforge turn 2 for Kaldra. Luckily I had a Bolt that knocked Stoneforge out of the way. A few turns later, he controlled my table and casted a Jace. He started to raise the counters to try to win, but the next turn I found a Pyroblast. We were already in the turns when he realized that he wouldn’t be able to win in time and conceded the game to me.  

Match: 2-0  

Tournament: 5-1 

Match 7 against GWu Lands 

Hubner is an elder of the CLC (Circuito Legacy Catarinense), he’s a great guy and has an enviable Legacy collection.  

Game 1: He won the dice roll and started with the perfect hand: Yavi, Exploration, Saga, Mox, Sphere. I tried to slow him down by wasting his Saga, but the next turn he found another Saga and a Wasteland. I made another Wasteland and we stayed in that game for a few turns, the first one to buy the Loam would probably win. Eventually, he found another Saga and I had to go for the combo. I made Marit Lage and he got an Aether Spellbomb to deal with the 20/20 monster.  

Game 2: I came up with a very good, fast hand with Exploration and Loam. He also had Loam but could only make one land per turn. I repeated Wastelands and then Ghost Quarter until he conceded.  

Game 3: He started with mana and passed. This sparked me a Force of Vigor alert. I had Wxploration and multiple Sagas, but I played cautiously. I made a land, Exploration and passed. He did a Saga and asked to stop in my upkeep, using FoV with pitch Fov to destroy my Exploration. I came back with Mox and Saga. He looked as if he didn’t like it. He found a Wasteland and then made a Loam. I also found a Loam and joined the party. Two turns later, he resolved a Surgical on my Loam, practically sealing the game, since he had 2 or 3 Wastelands in his hand and I only had Sagas in the field and in my hand. On my turn, I take a card from the deck and find….. Pithing Needle!!! I casted it, naming Wasteland and start making Sagas and Tokens. He found a Blast Zone, but in order not to die, he burst it at 1 destroying my Needle, Map and Lantern (which I sacrificed to draw a card). On his turn, he landed a Thespian and threatened a Marit Lage with a crop in his hand. I attacked with my 3 tokens and had Lightning Bolt in my hand. He turned over his lands, smiled and held out his hand!  

Match: 2-1 

Tournament: 6-1 

Final Thoughts:  

The champion was the Grixis player who beat me in the first round. As he only lost one game, I couldn’t catch up with him. We both got 18 points and I ended up in SECOND PLACE! Very happy with the result! As always the Legacy in the south of Brazil is the best it can be. A day to see friends, have lunch together and laugh a lot. Despite losing the first game, I was pretty happy with my level of play and RG Lands proved to be a solid choice in our Metagame. There were some bad matchups, but I managed to dodge some and play well against others. Our metagame is practically full of Orcs, which is a card not so effective against Lands.  

Here are the TOP 8 decks: Grixis Delver, RG Lands, Orzhov Aggro, Naya Depths, GW Lands, Jeskai Control, Cephalid Breakfast and Cephalid Breakfast. 

Here the link to all decklists of the Tournament: 

Circuito Legacy Catarinense CLC – Etapa 6 (Legacy) Decks (mtggoldfish.com) 

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Thanks for reading!