Elven Legacy

So. As is painfully obvious, I haven't written anything for months. That's due to wanting to keep the blog mostly focused on miniatures, but seeing as I haven't really been doing those lately I figured I might as well write about other stuff (to the detriment of my enormous readership, I'm sure) rather than just not write anything at all. So this is about Magic again.

I'm a very cyclical person for some reason. I have several hobbies, but my interest in each of them tends to ebb and flow around, with one hobby at a time occupying most of my time and interest - at the moment that hobby is MTG. I haven't actually painted anything since spring - needless to say, I won't be reaching my 100 miniature goal (the horror!) - and practically my whole hobby budget each month has been spent on cards, last few of these on building a legacy deck (my opinion on the cost has not changed, but I wanted to get in on the format and bit the bullet). I chose Elves, which is a tribal combo deck based around tons of small elves doing things followed by swinging with a big beast. Sounds fun, right?

Gaea's Cradle is one the most iconic cards of the deck.

 The last card (Cavern of Souls) arrived in the mail yesterday, and as luck would have it my FLGS was running Legacy today, so I went there after work. My matches went pretty badly (I won one match and lost three, and faced three red aggro and/or burn decks in a row [delver, goblin and straight burn], which are pretty bad match ups for the squishy squishy elves. The last opponent played dredge. ), but it was still nice. The feeling of playing with some of the most iconic cards in the games history like Gaea's Cradle or OG Duals (I'm running 2 Bayous and 1 Savannah) is pretty great. Now that I have the deck I'll definately be playing a lot more.

My deck currently looks like this:

Lands
4 Gaea's Cradle
3 Windswept Heath
3 Wooded Foothills
2 Bayou
2 Forest
2 Dryad Arbor
1 Savannah
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Pendelhaven

Creatures
4 Heritage Druid
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Elvish Visionary
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Shaman of the Pack
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Archon of Valor's Reach
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Birchlore Rangers

Instants and Sorceries
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Natural Order

Sideboard
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Thoughtseize
3 Veil of Summer
2 Carpet of Flowers
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen

I'm running 61 card in the main deck, partly because I want the different options and partly because the slavish adherence to 60 cards that many people advocate for annoys me. Especially the sideboard, but also the main deck will get tweaked once I've played more and got a better understanding of the meta at my FLGS.