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This Week in Legacy: The 2025 That Was


Howdy folks! It's time yet again for another edition of This Week in Legacy! I'm your host, Joe Dyer, and this week we're taking a look back at 2025 and how it relates to Legacy, myself, and what we hope to expect in 2026. In addition we've got a look at where Legacy is as of the end of the year and some Challenges from the final weekend of 2025.

Without further ado, let's dive right in!

2025 Legacy Year in Review

Well, here we are folks. This article is publishing on New Years Eve, December 31st of 2025. It's the final day of the year, so let's talk about what happened this past year and how it relates to Legacy. I also have a short thing at the end talking about my own personal year with the column and what I hope to expect going forward into 2026.

The Early Months - Aetherdrift and Tarkir: Dragonstorm, and bannings in Legacy

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The first few months of 2025 were actually kind of tumultuous. There was a lot of chatter around Legacy at this time, because of the fact that decks like Dimir Reanimator and Eldrazi were both in the mix of discussion (and I will talk a bit more on certain aspects of this year and how it relates to these months later in my own personal recap). There was a lot of concern how to manage this, but prior to anything occurring we got a new Standard set in the form of Aetherdrift with quite possibly one of the best cards of 2025 in Stock Up. This card changed the game for a lot of decks, but primarily it changed the game for Ancient Tomb decks being able to leverage the mana advantage into a card selection spell that really dug deep into the deck. As it turns out, a big chunk of a Dig Through Time even at Sorcery speed is still really strong. It reinvigorated decks like Sneak & Show, Omni-Tell, and laid the minimal groundwork for what would ultimately become Blue Cloudpost down the line.

But Legacy was still having lots of issues at this time, and in March of 2025, Wizards chose to ban both Troll of Khazad-dum and Sowing Mycospawn. There was a lot of chatter on these bans as people expected either more or different cards. Some very vocal parts of the community felt that Troll was the wrong ban, and that Mycospawn and Eldrazi's win rates didn't justify banning it either. Regardless of what anyone's thoughts were on this, these did end up being the bans we got, and long term I think they both have proven to be reasonable bans.

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The final Standard set of this portion of the year ended up being Tarkir: Dragonstorm, a set which brought a LOT of cards to the Legacy format that not only saw play, but laid future groundwork as well. Cards like Clarion Conqueror found their way into the format with ease, giving decks an evasive threat and prison piece all in one. Voice of Victory, initially looked at as a combo protection card, eventually landed at the center of both Boros and Mardu Energy decks, giving the deck a repeatable token outlet to feed both Ocelot Pride and Goblin Bombardment.

The major card that I think ended up being one of the major players from this set was Ugin, Eye of the Storms. This card not only gave decks like Mystic Forge a huge rampable threat, but also further provided tools to what would become Blue Cloudpost later on in the year.

At the end of all of this though, one pervasive thing remained: Reanimator was still one of Legacy's best decks and it showed. Waiting in the wings was something that would change Mystic Forge forever.

The Middle of the Year - Final Fantasy, Edge of Eternities

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The middle sets of the year started off with a delve into the world of Final Fantasy. While it seemed like there was a lot of cool cards from this set, ultimately most of the set ended up not doing a whole lot for Eternal formats. If you were a player who didn't like Universes Beyond, having a set like this have absolutely zero impact on the format probably felt like a good thing. Even months later, this set looked like it had some things but just didn't convert any of those things in the long term.

The other major set during this time provided yet another set of cards that would have a massive impact on Legacy as a whole, and that's Edge of Eternities. This set had a huge amount of things that it brought, from a myriad of interesting Mono White Warp cards to one of the best colorless Planeswalkers ever printed in the form of Tezzeret, Cruel Captain. Tezzeret's buff to Mystic Forge Combo continued to put the deck on a firm trajectory to eventually become one of the best decks in Legacy, simply because it had a very strong matchup against Reanimator. Tezzeret allowed the deck a measure of consistency, was insanely difficult to remove from the board, and also gave it the ability to tutor answers to commonly played hate like Null Rod and Collector Ouphe.

One of the other cards here that has long term proven to be an incredibly powerful addition to the format was Quantum Riddler. I cannot extoll enough how much I love this card and how strong it is. Warp in general looked like a great mechanic, and Riddler proves that the card's ability to just cycle for two mana and then come back later for five is really strong. I'm way more excited to continue to play with this card than anything else this year.

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In addition, Pinnacle Emissary was also printed in this set, and it functionally redefined the 8Cast archetype into a new Affinity Stompy archetype that utilized the card in many powerful ways. This one is important later on in the year.

This time period also had another ban announcement, but this time had the infamous "no changes" and a discussion that followed that felt like Wizards wasn't really paying attention to Legacy in general and seemed very tone deaf. I do think this one was looked on pretty unfavorably by a lot of folks, and didn't really do any good to the ongoing notion of "content creators vs players" that I felt happened quite a bit this year.

The End of 2025 - Eternal Weekends, a Major Banning, Spider-Man, and Avatar: The Last Airbender

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The end of 2025 started off with the release of Spider-Man, which was done online as a set called Through the Omenpaths. I think this aspect, combined with how poorly the set was received didn't really help its overall chances, and many of the cards from the set simply just didn't land in Eternal formats with the exception of Kraza, the Swarm as One showing up as both a combo protection piece and an aggro protection piece in Boros Energy. Beyond that however, this set really just didn't stick the landing.

In this time, we quickly approached North America Eternal Weekend, in which Mystic Forge won the overall event utilizing new cards like Tezzeret, Cruel Captain. This deck, despite being on a lot of people's radar, simply flew into the finals and demolished the competition. I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the Legacy Champion this year (Tom Basketball). You can find that article over here.

The major concern at this point was whether or not Wizards would actually ban something in Legacy two weeks before Europe Eternal Weekend, a ban window that had been moved up to account for Standard bannings that needed to take place. As it turns out, Wizards did feel like a change was necessary.

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In November, both Entomb and Nadu, Winged Wisdom were both banned. Entomb, having been originally banned in Legacy when the format split off from Type 1.5 to become its own thing, was unbanned in September of 2009 (a full five years after Legacy had been brought into existence out of Type 1.5 and became independent of Vintage) and has been with the format since then. There was certainly a lot of discussion on this one, as many were happy to see it go, while others decrying that a pillar of Legacy had been taken down. Nadu had far less discussion, because I think a good majority of people were simply sick of the card by this point. In addition, the lack of mention of Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student and The One Ring was seen as a worry, and despite these cards being addressed in a Weekly MTG stream, that information not actually being in the BnR did rub some folks the wrong way.

This brought to light a new and interesting thing to wonder about how Eternal Weekend Europe and Asia would shift and change. One of the biggest things that occurred in this time even up to the banning was a surging interest in Cloudpost as a blue deck instead of as a green deck. Losing Sowing Mycospawn had been a real blow to the archetype, but new cards like Ugin, Stock Up, etc. helped bolster the new archetype.

Right before EU Eternal Weekend though, we had a new set release in the form of Avatar: The Last Airbender. This set had a number of interesting cards, ones that did a better job of bolstering certain archetypes than Final Fantasy and Spider-Man had done this year from a pure design perspective. While this set was just too early for it to really affect EU, it did have an impact on Asia Eternal Weekend (so we'll talk specific cards then).

EU Eternal Weekend ended up being won by the Affinity Stompy deck that had formed since the printing of Pinnacle Emissary, and the data for that event was a bit of a bear to process in general.

Asia Eternal Weekend is I think where we saw best what effect Avatar was having on Legacy. Cards like Badgermole Cub became huge parts of Cradle Control, while Meteor Sword literally revived Stoneblade as an archetype. There's still a lot of up in the air over cards like Katara, Waterbending Master and Wan Shi Tong, Librarian, but this is a set that has a ton of layers to it and long term we may still be finding cards from this set that may be playable.

The winner of Asia Eternal Weekend did however end up being Izzet Delver, which I think was a pretty good cap on 2025.

My 2025 in Review

2025 is a year where I looked to try do something a little different. For starters, I did not do any Round Table articles in 2025. While these articles often did stir a lot of discussion, a lot of that discussion inevitably centered on my selection process for it (which was admittedly pretty wide net type of selection) and me somehow not reining in people on what they were saying on them. Frankly, I don't think that it was my responsibility to rein anyone in on these, and I may do another one in the future here in 2026, but 2025 felt just like such a whirlwind of a year for the format that I don't think it served a purpose here. Taking a break from certain ideas is pretty good.

I also didn't do any Player Spotlights in 2025. This is something I would like to get back to in 2026, because I do think those are interesting and can help connect players together and showcase the more human side of Magic.

I did spend some time examining the Legacy Banlist, which I think would be interesting to do again in say 2027. I felt happier with this particular re-examination than I have in the past with others.

Outside of the article work, I simply couldn't get to as many of the events I wanted to get to this year. I did get to go to MagicCon Chicago early in the year, but I did more with D&D at that event than I did with Magic. I travel quite a bit for other conventions, and we had a lot of those this year. One thing I would like to try to do more for 2026 is get out more locally (my local store is now doing once a month proxy Legacy) and more Buffalo Chicken Dip Legacy events, and I would love to try to make it to Eternal Weekend this next year in NA. Maybe not the others, but at least NA.

One thing I did notice a lot of this year, and I ran into a measure of it myself was a seeming anger versus content creators in Legacy from vocal minorities within the community. So much of what I saw was just direct vitriol spread at content creators in this space, blaming them for having opinions on the format that they felt was incorrect or they felt would influence Wizards to make certain decisions. I don't think Wizards is taking too much of this into account for the most part, and most content creators know this. I know very directly this sentiment happened a lot during the bannings at the beginning of the year with Mycospawn and Troll, and I felt like it only got worse throughout the year. If I had one wish for 2026, it would be for people to stop trying to fight each other in this fashion. We're all doing this because we love Legacy, let's embrace that.

That being said, I have had some direct experiences this year that were less than pleasant, and I hate to say that, because most often the Legacy community has proven to be a wonderful group of people. I've had a few direct discord issues with people getting extremely aggressive at me, to BlueSky comments calling my writing "garbage" and "AI." I'm gonna be real with y'all, I don't use the AI shit in any of my writing. Yes, I'm fully aware that I do make mistakes. Guess what? I'm a real person behind this, and real people do actually make mistakes from time to time. Here's the cool thing about this though. If you're nice and you point out something that I may have said incorrectly or a typo or whatever, and you do it in a really good constructive criticism fashion? I'll make sure to either note it in a future article or get it fixed right then and there if I can. But if your standpoint is that I'm somehow garbage? I'm going to not engage with you at all.

Unfortunately, I absolutely suffer from impostor syndrome, and I often worry that what I'm doing is never good enough or that my work isn't helpful or impactful. This is a constant struggle for me, and there are absolutely some days (such as when I got a message about my work being "garbage") that I really feel it and feel like outright quitting. I put the work into these articles because I love these formats and I love this community, and anyone who has met me in person can probably relate that I don't go around often telling everyone and their sibling who I am at an event. Because at the end of the day, I'm not there for PR, I'm there to play in the event and have a good time. Even if I am commentating, I'm usually just casually chatting with folks. I've met a lot of really cool people that way, and it is super fun to do. I do appreciate the folks at these events though who come up and thank me for the work. You are all the real MVPs, and I love you all. That being said, I do absolutely want to do more commentating. I had so much fun doing it, and honestly, it would be kind of sweet to get to commentate on Eternal Weekend.

2025 had a lot of other things happening in the background as well for me. I mainly dipped off the YouTube grind a bit, the series of short vignette videos I was doing on "What Does This Deck Do?" weren't really what I wanted to be doing, and I felt like they didn't really hit all that well with folks. Combining this with the fact that MTGO replays are still disabled made it a bit difficult for me to consider getting back into Streaming or Gameplay videos. I have found that I am not really well built for streaming, and with gameplay videos I have a hard time narrating or recording and being able to consider playing well. Having replays did allow for me the ability to play a League, decide if it was interesting enough to post, and then sit down and record going through the League Replay, so I could see any glaring mistakes or anything. I hope that replays do eventually return, because they were a big boon in that regard.

I do think, however, YT may end up being more of a home for TTRPG content for me than Magic content. Unless somehow I magically have space on the official Goldfish channel, which is somewhat unlikely due to a myriad of other factors.

I also had a few situations this year where I ended up having to leave a few spaces that actively felt hostile to my own mental health, both in Magic and other spaces, and that definitely had a major impact on the overall vibe of the year.

All in all, I don't really think 2025 was a great year, but it was certainly a year. I am hopeful and looking forward to 2026, maybe doing some more things with Legacy as well as the other formats I write about, but also possibly doing more TTRPG content.

Whatever happens next, though, I appreciate you as a reader of my columns and all the love I've gotten from people this year. See you in 2026!

A Final Look at the Legacy Metagame in 2025

We have one final look at the Legacy metagame as of the end of 2025. We've collected a reasonable amount of data since the banning of Entomb and Nadu, Winged Wisdom. The entire aggregate sheet can be found here. This data only encompasses Magic Online events, and currently we have roughly 2,296 entries in this dat set with around 12,119 matches total.

Let's start by looking at some of the graphical data on where Legacy is.

From a macro archetype standpoint, the fact that Legacy's current top macro archetype is Spell Combo is kind of wild. This encompasses things like Omni-Tell, Oops, and Doomsday. All of these things are indeed rather popular at the moment. Tempo really isn't far off from Spell Combo here, and the majority of that is comprised mainly of both Izzet and Dimir Tempo lists.

There is a big drop off from Tempo down to Stompy as the third most played macro archetype, though, and then things kind of stay in range of each other down to Control and Land Based/Fair GSZ.

While Spell Combo is the most played macro archetype overall, the highest played individual deck is Izzet Tempo and right behind it is Dimir Tempo. However, the other decks in the Top 6 decks here are things like Oops, Omni, and Doomsday (funny how that works out that Spell Combo decks are highly played) with the sprinkling of Eldrazi in the mix.

One important thing of note is that one of the decks that people really thought would be bad for the format was Mystic Forge, and it is realistically just about 2.9% of the overall metagame at this point. Even lower is Blue Cloudpost, which was another deck people really thought would be broken.

In the Top 6 decks here, overall the win rates aren't incredibly egregious. Oops has probably the best win rate of the Top 6 decks at around a 54.6% non-mirror win rate. Realistically, nothing is too out of bounds, and not only that we have a ton of decks right at below or above the 50% win rate line which looks really good. Even decks below the 50% win rate here aren't too far below that they can't steal an event or win. Technically a deck like Beanstalk is a 47.9% win rate deck, but it has had some solid Top 8s and a few wins in the past month.

I've also been keeping the H2H data up to date on the public Tableau. Recently I added a filtered matrix (screenshot below) of the most played decks in the format. You can find the entire H2H Matrix here. This is kept up to date weekly.

All in all, this appears to be a pretty reasonable spread of matchups for any given deck. Of the major players in the format, Izzet has some positive matchups against things like Beans, Blue Post, and Mystic Forge, but it is weak to things like Affinity Stompy and Mono Black Reanimator. Dimir Tempo has a much stronger spread of matchups overall, with Lands, Reanimator, and Mystic Forge being its problematic matchups.

It is very interesting data to look at and it does paint a picture of a format that is honestly doing well. Legacy looks to be in a solid place at the moment. While there is some measure of concern over Spell Combo decks like Oops and Doomsday, the meta share of these decks isn't extremely crazy and I do think the format is doing a reasonable job of managing them. It is pretty clear that Dimir Tempo is definitely one of the stronger Tempo builds, but both it and Izzet have good and bad matchups that give the format a solid rock paper scissors style metagame, which can't honestly be a bad thing.

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The only true major concern is frankly, Tamiyo. Tamiyo is definitely a card that has a ton of power behind it, and a lot of decks are leveraging that power right now. Even decks that usually wouldn't want the card are jamming it in just because they can play four Brainstorm and playing a Tamiyo on Turn 1 and then turning that into a Planeswalker is a pretty back-breaking clock. I have said before that I can see a day when this card is banned. This isn't an "if", this is a "when", and I imagine it will come when players are absolutely sick of the card.

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In regards to the other card that a lot of folks thought would be super broken we have The One Ring. Honestly I'm pretty okay with the existence of the Ring currently. It seems like thanks to the omnipresent Tempo decks in the format, that stuff like Forge and Blue Post aren't having a huge surge in play like people thought they would. While there is certainly a world where I could see a Ring ban, I don't think it's absolutely necessary at the moment.

As noted, I think Legacy is in a reasonable space, and I have had a lot of fun playing the format. A world where Stoneblade is having a resurgence and also being a great deck cannot be a bad place for Legacy. I know we have another BnR in February here, but I don't expect much to change if anything at all (even a Tamiyo ban seems unlikely yet) and it will be interesting to see how Lorwyn Eclipsed adds to the format, since many of the year's Standard In-Universe sets have provided some very strong cards to the format.

Legacy Challenge 32 12/24/2025

The first Challenge event of this past week was the Wednesday event. This event had 50 players thanks to the MTGO website.

You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.

Dimir Tempo was the most played deck here, and it did have a pretty good win rate. Affinity Stompy and Eldrazi also did very well, as did Oops. Izzet Tempo had a pretty weak performance here.

Let's take a look at the Top 8.

Deck Name Placing MTGO Username
Oops! All Spells 1st choutin
Dimir Tempo 2nd Ozymandias17
Saga Storm 3rd Vlatutscher
Dimir Tempo 4th HolyShamgar
Eldrazi 5th Bawer
Affinity Stompy 6th RPSbonjwa
Mystic Forge Combo 7th HoldTheElle
Grixis Tempo 8th SauTay

There's a firm spread here of Tempo vs Combo with a sprinkling of Stompy decks. At the end of the event it was Oops that won.

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Even as a one-of, Chancellor of the Annex is a card that makes a reasonable amount of sense as a card that just sometimes "gotcha's" your opponent. Choutin is one of the more prominent Oops players in this sphere, so if this is a deck you're interested in picking up, this is certainly someone to follow in terms of decklists.

In Second Place we had Dimir Tempo.

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Seems rather straightforward here. Snuff Out main deck is kind of a neat concept. It does cleanly get rid of opposing Murktide Regents and a few other big hitters in the format. I think with Reanimator pushed back down it is probably a pretty good card.

Legacy Challenge 32 12/26/2025

The second Challenge event of this past week was the Friday event. This event had 60 players thanks to the MTGO website.

You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.

Affinity Stompy (8Cast says what?) was the most played deck, and it had a really good win rate at around a 54.55% non-mirror. Despite being well played both Dimir and Izzet Tempo had pretty poor performances. Red Stompy and Stoneblade both did quite well.

Let's take a look at the Top 8.

Deck Name Placing MTGO Username
Beanstalk Control (Non-Yorion) 1st Harry1232
Boros Energy 2nd FreakNightmare
Affinity Stompy 3rd Shadowz2005
The EPIC Gamble 4th TonyScapone
Saga Storm 5th billster47
Loam Pox 6th CaptainAfrica
Stoneblade 7th SuperCow12653
Affinity Stompy 8th ecobaronen

This is kind of a neat Top 8. Reasonable amount of Combo/Stompy/Control here. At the end of the event it was Beans that won.

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I just absolutely love Quantum Riddler as a card. Even without Beans I think people are going to be playing this thing for a long long time, because of how utterly versatile it is. Having a two mana draw a card but maybe draw two cards is really good, and if you can make the thing stick into play long term it just buries your opponent in card advantage because it gives you tons of incentive to use your mana and your cards so you can keep up the draw engine. It's just a really absurd card, which is made even more absurd by the presence of Phelia.

In Second Place we had Boros Energy.

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One card I'm not utterly surprised to see here is Kraza, the Swarm as One (aka Spider-Punk) because it just seems like a solid card for a deck that wants to stick its threats and keeping your opponent from countering those threats seems really solid. Another thing that has shown up quite a bit in these lists is Sand Scout. The primary target this thing fetches is Lazotep Quarry, which functionally has an ability that lets you Eternalize any creature in your graveyard for X2. This is super important because it creates the thing as a token for the purposes of Ocelot Pride. Not to mention, Sand Scout's second ability also generates tokens when you're using Wasteland and sacrificing Lazotep Quarry to its ability (the deck plays zero other Deserts, so you are basically sacrificing itself for your 4/4).

Legacy Challenge 32 12/27/2025

The third Challenge event of this past week was the Saturday event. This event had 54 players thanks to the MTGO website.

You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.

Dimir Tempo was the most played deck of the event and its win rate was very good, as was Izzet Tempo. Oops saw a fair bit of play but its win rate wasn't as good. Affinity Stompy and D&T also did extremely well here.

Let's take a look at the Top 8.

Deck Name Placing MTGO Username
Izzet Tempo 1st Baku_91
Death and Taxes - BW (Yorion) 2nd yoshiwata
Dimir Tempo 3rd jankyb
Cradle Control 4th runkor
Dredge 5th MahfuzVanGogh
Eldrazi 6th Antarctica
The EPIC Gamble 7th Killabee
Izzet Tempo 8th BressD1

This is a fairly well spread out Top 8. At the end of the event it was Izzet Tempo that won.

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Some sweet Standard tech here in the form of Stormchaser's Talent and Boomerang Basics. Being able to generate a bunch of 1/1s with Prowess really does feel like Monastery Mentor but better, doesn't it?

In Second Place we had D&T.

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It is absolutely wild to see how D&T has adapted its Equipment suite over the years. For so long it was unheard of to not play things like Batterskull, Kaldra Compleat, and heck even stuff like Umezawa's Jitte (way back in the day). Nowadays we have recursion in the form of Pre-War Formalwear and literal Vindicate on an Equipment with Meteor Sword. Just kind of crazy.

Legacy Challenge 32 12/28/2025 - 1

The fourth Challenge event of this past week was the first Sunday event. This event had 53 players thanks to the MTGO website.

You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.

Dimir Tempo was the most played deck of the event but it had just under 50% of a win rate. Izzet Tempo seemed to fare better here, as did Saga Storm.

Let's take a look at the Top 8.

Deck Name Placing MTGO Username
Sultai Control 1st pokemoki
Izzet Tempo 2nd AmadeusPro
Izzet Tempo 3rd wakarock
Mono Black Reanimator 4th Roodslay
Saga Storm 5th Cirxi
Ruby Storm 6th ClydeCash
Dredge 7th doctor-x
Red Painter 8th kanican

Combo heavy Top 8 in the bottom half primarily, with the winner being Sultai Control.

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I know this got flagged as Tempo likely because of the miser Daze, so that's something I'll probably take a look at in the future here. This is definitely much more on the control leaning end though, with a wide spread of threats, and generally Uro is a good indicator as well since that doesn't generally see play in Tempo builds.

In Second Place we had Izzet Tempo.

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We have certainly seen a lot of Izzet lists getting back to basics with actual Delver of Secrets, so that's kind of cool. I do like the two copies of Stock Up just to get back in the game when you run out of gas. It's just a very strong card overall, but not necessarily needing to be a four-of in a list like this.

Legacy Challenge 32 12/28/2025 - 2

The final Challenge event of this past week was the second Sunday event. This event had 68 players thanks to the MTGO website.

You can find the Top 32 decklists for this event here and the data sheet here.

Izzet Tempo saw the most play here, but its win rate wasn't actually that great. Dimir Tempo, Cradle Control, and Doomsday all did very well. Beans did poorly, as did Oops.

Let's take a look at the Top 8.

Deck Name Placing MTGO Username
Doomsday 1st wonderPreaux
Dimir Tempo 2nd DMianete
Omni-Tell 3rd _epinephrine
Sneak and Show 4th Joe_L
Dimir Tempo 5th aurose121
Cradle Control 6th Xwhale
Doomsday 7th Jujkata
Azorius Control 8th Chris_McNasty

Little bit of Combo, Tempo, and Control here. At the end of the event it was Doomsday that won.

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Tamiyo is good. That is all. I jest. There's some amusing stuff in the sideboard here. Experimental Frenzy?! That's kind of sweet.

In Second Place we had Dimir Tempo.

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There isn't much to really say here. This seems to be rather stock looking in general.

Around the Web

  • The Eternal Glory Podcast had a new episode on a 2025 year in review. Check it out here.
  • BeExcellent has some Yorion action. Check it out here.

The Spice Corner

Now that Leagues are posted throughout the week, let's find some Spice!

Literal old school Aluren.

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Fire Nation Occupation is not quite a card I had on my radar.

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Wrapping Up

That's all the time we have this week folks! Thanks for continuing to support the column and join us next week as we continue our journey into Legacy!

As always you can reach me at all my associated links via my Link Tree! In addition I'm always around the MTGGoldfish Discord Server and the MTGLegacy Discord Server.

Until next time!



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