You know why I like Legacy?

Because of this shit:

Battle of Wits Featured by Ken Adams on 2011-05-01 (Legacy) Print this deck!
Maindeck: Artifacts 1 Crucible Of Worlds 1 Expedition Map 1 Meekstone 1 Null Rod 1 Oblivion Stone 1 Pithing Needle 4 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Tormod's Crypt Creatures 1 Eternal Witness 4 Knight of the Reliquary 1 Qasali Pridemage 4 Sakura-Tribe Elder 1 Sower of Temptation 4 Tarmogoyf 4 Trinket Mage 1 Vampire Hexmage Enchantments 4 Battle of Wits 1 Humility 3 Moat 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Solitary Confinement Instants 1 Argivian Find 4 Brainstorm 4 Counterspell 4 Enlightened Tutor 4 Force of Will 4 Gifts Ungiven 4 Go for the Throat 4 Intuition 4 Path to Exile 1 Reclaim 2 Spell Pierce 4 Swords to Plowshares Legendary Creatures 2 Progenitus	Sorceries 1 Day of Judgment 4 Duress 4 Green Sun's Zenith 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 Life from the Loam 4 Natural Order 4 Nature's Lore 4 Ponder 4 Preordain 1 Regrowth 4 Scapeshift 4 Search for Tomorrow 3 Thoughtseize 4 Wrath of God Basic Lands 2 Island 2 Plains Lands 4 Arid Mesa 3 Badlands 2 Barren Moor 3 Bayou 4 Bloodstained Mire 1 Bojuka Bog 3 Flooded Strand 4 Horizon Canopy 2 Lonely Sandbar 4 Marsh Flats 1 Maze of Ith 4 Misty Rainforest 2 Mystic Gate 4 Polluted Delta 1 Reflecting Pool 4 Savannah 1 Scalding Tarn 4 Scrubland 2 Secluded Steppe 4 Tundra 4 Underground Sea 2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle 4 Verdant Catacombs 2 Vesuva 4 Volcanic Island 4 Windswept Heath 3 Wooded Foothills Land Creatures 2 Dryad Arbor Legendary Lands 1 Academy Ruins 1 Karakas 1 Volrath's Stronghold Legendary Snow Lands 1 Dark Depths	Sideboard: 4 Dark Confidant 1 Eternal Dragon 1 Oracle of Mul Daya 3 Sterling Grove 1 Mindslaver 1 Thrun, the Last Troll 4 Firespout

AND!

Battle of Wits Zoo Featured by Kenny Mayer on 2011-05-01 (Legacy) Print this deck!
Maindeck: Artifacts 1 Bonehoard 1 Sword of Body and Mind 1 Sword of Feast and Famine 1 Sword of Fire and Ice 1 Sword of Light and Shadow Creatures 4 Bloodbraid Elf 1 Eternal Witness 4 Fauna Shaman 4 Figure of Destiny 4 Goblin Guide 4 Grim Lavamancer 4 Kird Ape 4 Knight of the Reliquary 4 Loam Lion 4 Lotus Cobra 4 Mirran Crusader 4 Mother of Runes 4 Noble Hierarch 4 Plated Geopede 4 Qasali Pridemage 4 Ranger of Eos 1 Scute Mob 4 Skyshroud Elite 4 Squadron Hawk 4 Steppe Lynx 4 Stoneforge Mystic 4 Tarmogoyf 4 Terravore 4 Trygon Predator 4 Vengevine 4 Vinelasher Kudzu 4 Wild Nacatl Enchantments 4 Battle of Wits 4 Oblivion Ring Instants 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Lightning Helix 4 Path to Exile 4 Swords to Plowshares Legendary Artifacts 4 Umezawa's Jitte Legendary Creatures 1 Progenitus	Planeswalkers 4 Ajani Vengeant 4 Elspeth, Knight-Errant Sorceries 4 Chain Lightning 4 Green Sun's Zenith 4 Natural Order Basic Lands 1 Forest 1 Island 2 Mountain 2 Plains Lands 4 Arid Mesa 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Copperline Gorge 4 Flooded Strand 4 Horizon Canopy 4 Marsh Flats 1 Maze of Ith 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Plateau 4 Polluted Delta 4 Raging Ravine 4 Razorverge Thicket 4 Savannah 4 Scalding Tarn 4 Stirring Wildwood 4 Taiga 2 Tropical Island 3 Tundra 4 Verdant Catacombs 3 Volcanic Island 4 Wasteland 4 Windswept Heath 4 Wooded Foothills Land Creatures 2 Dryad Arbor Legendary Lands 1 Karakas	Sideboard: 1 Ethersworn Canonist 1 Gilded Drake 1 Loaming Shaman 1 Meddling Mage 1 War Priest of Thune 4 Eladamri's Call 4 Worldly Tutor 1 Kataki, War's Wage 1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress

I woke up on Sunday morning and turned on the Starcitygames legacy tournament and saw that this deck was being played. The announcers were all about this deck. They said they had a feature match of the Battle of Wits deck against a Sneak Attack/Show and Tell deck. I saw turn sequence go like this:

Mind over Matter = Player 1
Sneak attack = Player 2

Player 1 Turn 1: plays Stirring Wildwood. Pass
Player 2 Turn 1: plays Ancient Tomb, taps it to play Grim Monolith. Pass
Player 1 Turn 2: plays Razorverge Thicket. Pass
Player 2 Turn 2: Plays Volcanic Island. Taps it and Ancient Tomb for Intuition, grabs Emrakul with it. Pass
Player 1 Turn 3: Plays Wooded Foothills, Plays Tarmogoyf. Pass
Player 2 Turn 3: Plays Volcanic Island, plays Show and Tell.

Okay. Ready?

Player 2 reveals Emrakul. Player 1 reveals Battle of Wits. And wins.

Just look at it! It's beautiful!

And that ladies and gentlemen, is how Battle of Wits became my new favorite deck in Legacy!

I mean, this is what the deck really boils down to: Having fun at Magic. You get to essentially play the 240ish best cards in Magic and at any point in the game you can just say "I win?" and your opponent looks sad. ISN'T THAT GREAT!? This really gets to the root of playing Magic and having fun. In a single deck, you attack you opponent and interact, you combo out, you stall, you do EVERYTHING! I could go on and on about this one deck. Is it competitive? I guess not very much. Is it fun? Hell. Fucking. Yeah.

So! Projects I've been working on:

So, I saw that one of my buddies had a Experiment Kraj as his "Commander" and a friend of his cut it up and made it into a cool, 3D image. So...why can't you do the same thing, but change around the background? I agree. So I have been using Ezuri as my "Commander" so I took the Exacto Knife to him and got this.  So yeah, pretty fun.

Anyways, thanks a lot and I'll post again soon!