

How did you get to only 1 Wrenn and in the SB over the maindeck? I didn’t get much testing done before the event, just a few games with local friends – however I have played similar Zoo decks for several years though. Also, I just really felt like slinging Wild Nacatl ‘s. I decided to go with Zoo instead because I thought it would be a bit more robust against those cards. However, the prospect of playing against Dreadhorde Arcanist, Wrenn and Six, and Plague Engineer all day with Maverick wasn’t thrilling. My initial plan was to play Maverick at this event. Why Zoo? How much testing did you get done with the deck before the Leaving a Legacy Open? My favorite deck is Punishing Maverick, which is also the deck I have spent the most time playing and achieved the best results with. Occasionally I will play some Legacy on MTGO to compensate, but I find that far less enjoyable than paper Magic.

As a result, I now play much less paper Legacy, but still fly out to play bigger events. In April 2019 I moved to Jacksonville, Florida, which isn’t a big area for Legacy. I played several times a week at local stores and travelled to many large events. Fortunately, New England has a thriving Legacy scene, and before long I became a Legacy fanatic. I didn’t finish my first Legacy deck until the summer of 2014, a few months before Khans of Tarkir came out. My first competitive deck was Birthing Pod during Scars of Mirrodin/ Innistrad Standard. Starting in 2011, I got more serious about Magic and have been playing continuously since then. From then until 2011 I played on again / off again very casually. Magic has been a part of my life to varying degrees since around 2001. When did you get into magic and when did you get into Legacy? Do you play paper magic too? If so what’s your favourite deck to pilot? Meritt has done just that, winding back to clock and taking down the Legacy Open with a straight forward yet high powered Punishing Zoo 75.Ī huge thank you to Meritt for his time and answering some of the questions I had when I found out the Zoo was Loose. If you told me a week prior that the winning list was running 4 Lightning Bolt, 4 Tarmogoyf and…4 Wild Nacatl, I don’t know if I would have taken you seriously. The Leaving a Legacy Open hosted 97 players in a 7 round cut-to-top-8 epic.
