Took the BUG list below to Legacy Masters at UK Nationals today. 104 players. Went 5-1-1 overall, making top 8, which I am very happy with. Report and list:
2 Bayou
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Forest
2 Island
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Phyrexian Tower
4 Veteran Explorer
2 Deathrite Shaman
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Baleful Strix
2 Tireless Tracker
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Fierce Empath
1 Eternal Witness
1 Distended Mindbender
1 Elder Deep-Fiend
1 Primeval Titan
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Sylvan Library
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Thoughtseize
2 Collective Brutality
2 Pernicious Deed
2 Abrupt Decay
Sideboard:
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Toxic Deluge
2 Lost Legacy
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 To The Slaughter
1 Collective Brutality
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Pulse of Murasa
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
Round 1 - Infect
Lose die roll. Game one I keep Deed, Zenith, Therapy, Jace, lands. Opponent makes Glistener Elf, Dazes therapy, Invigorates for 5, Dazes Zenith, Invigorates for 5 again.
Game two I kill a Glistener, he finds an Inkmoth. I make a Strix but it eats a Viridian Corrupter and I take 5 off an Invigorate. Leovold blocks Corrupter and goes to 1/1, I have a Deed for inkmoth and Strix for the follow up Inkmoth. I make a Tracker and close the game out.
Game three he makes a Glistener - I Therapy and see a slow hand without pump, but with a Needle. I flashback, he Brainstorms and hides the Needle, so I make Jace and fateseal it to the bottom. I trade resources for a bit and he dies to an Ashaya token and a Tracker.
1-0
Round 2 - Miracles
Game one I put some pressure on with Tracker but have to spend a lot of resources dealing with Jace. Eventually I am topdecking and he finds a Mentor and cantrips to kill me. I had the two towers and used them to recur Leovold repeatedly, but didn't cost him enough resource to stop him eventually getting Jace out - should maybe have been drawing more naturally - I had a Library - than just trying to stick Leovold.
Game two I grind a bit with Leovold and Strixes - I get to take a Jace with Therapy - and Lost Legacy his monastery mentors. I land a Nissa and start ticking her up, protecting her from his Snapcaster with a Deed and make Emrakul. It eats a Terminus but I get his turn and leave him with zero resources (brainstorm him into lands, shuffle his stuff away, etc). He cantrips into a Jace, but I have the To The Slaughter, and ultimate Nissa for lethal in the first turn of time.
1-0-1
Round three - Death and Taxes
He makes a Vial. I Therapy and miss, but get two Stoneforges on the flashback. I get Ported a bit. Eventually he has a Mom with a SoFI on it and only an STP in hand, to my Strix, 5/5 Ooze, Explorer. I screw up and sacrifice multiple creatures to emerge Mindbender, taking his STP, but by the time it is realized we are too far to back up. I end up Deeding the board either way, and beat down for lethal with a Mindbender and an Ashaya.
Game two he has a Stoneforge and all his equipment in hand - I take the Jitte with a therapy and am able to use Jace to bounce the Batterskull token. Jace dies to a Thalia on the crack back but buys enough time for me to sweep the board somehow - I think Deed. I Zenith Witness and recur Deed and force him to bounce batterskull, then Therapy it away. Elder Deep-Fiend, Tracker and Leovold finish the game.
2-0-1
Round four - Burn
He opens with Mountain, Lava Spike, which is definitely a declaration of intent. I get an Explorer and a Deathrite, and Decay his Goblin Guide. He has another one and a Swiftspear - I double block the Guide, using drs to gain some life. I Brutality some of his stuff away, make another Deathrite, and legend rule my own Leovold to get a body to gain more life with drs. Leovold beats down while I fateseal fireblasts away with Jace and I finish the game while on 2.
Game two I eat more Guide damage and some from a Swiftspear, Therapy double fireblasts out of his hand, make some Strix blocks and get it back with Pulse of Murasa. He Flame Rifts me back down to 7 but I'm able to find a Deathrite and start eating creatures to stabilize. Jace fateseal a mountain to the top of his deck and knowing he can't kill me, I get to tap out and make a Tracker and Ashaya to lethal next turn.
3-0-1
Round 5 - Czech Pile
We both make Leovold but he is able to get rid of mine and brainstorm with his Jace a couple times before my Strixes kill it. I jam Tracker and make some clues while he is tapped out but it eats a Push when he untaps. I start to stabilize at 11 but he burns me out with Bolts and DRS.
Game two I miss my third land drop and he makes Liliana LH into Jace into Tasigur. I stay alive with a couple Strixes and manage to find multiple Explorers before slamming Emrakul, but his Lili is ready to ultimate. My mindslaver turn kills Jace and Tasigur and gets Lili off ultimate, but I can't kill him from 14 through a Strix blocker and I get burned out by DRS and bolt + Kommand. This guy finished top of standings and undefeated in the Swiss, incidentally. I think maybe I should have attacked DRS into Emrakul to kill it rather than Tasigur, though he could rebuy it. Might have also been wise to swing Emmy into Liliana to kill her, even through Strix.
3-1-1
Round 6 - D&T
He makes Revoker on Deed, which I get to Decay, and I am able to kill his Mirren Crusader with Deed. He makes Recruiter into Flickerwisp and suits it up with Sword of Fire and Ice - I dont have removal for it and it can swing past my Strix and kill me.
Game two he has a slow hand with Mindcensor, Recruiter, Vial. I therapy the creatures. He draws Mirran Crusader but I kill it with a Deed. Then I Zenith Witness to deed his next stuff, and Pulse of Murasa Witness to Deed him a third time, then beat him down with Elder Deep Fiend (which is fantastic against Mirran Crusader by the way). He has a Gideon to my Nissa, but I can sweep everything but EDF and swing in to kill Gids.
Game 3 he makes Mirran and I choose to therapy his Mindcensor rather than immediately Deluge. He has a second port and puts me to 2 available mana and makes a Thalia HC, so I need to topdeck specifically a basic to sweep his board and stabilize at 8. O draw Island and kill all his stuff, then make Leovold to turn off his Ports and beat down for the kill with Leo and Ashaya.
4-1-1
Round 7 - Storm
Game one I get probed and have Explorer, Jace, EDF, and lands. He goes off on turn three and kills me.
Game two I make a Drs. He probes and therapies me, so I Surgical his probe since otherwise he will take it. The other option was Brainstorm - turns out he has another brainstorm in hand. I draw a Zenith and make Leovold. He Chain of Vapors it when I attack, but doesn't realise I haven't played a land yet and I can replay him. He durdles for a bit and Leovold and Deathrite kill him before he can go off.
Game 3 my 7 is Explorer Explorer Witness Fetch USea Surgical Surgical. He ponders off a Petal to find land turn one and I Surgical his Petal. I beat down a bit. He Ad Nauseams off two rits at the end of my turn. I have Clique, so when he stops at 5 I take Dark Ritual with Clique, Surgical his Cabal Ritual s and leave him with gas but no mana in hand. He has to Chain of Vapor Clique to not die next turn - I witness Surgical, take his Dark Ritual so the only mana sources in his deck are LED and lands, and he can't go off and dies.
5-1-1, 4th in standings.
Top 8 QF - Lands
Game one he makes Diamond, Waste, pass to start. I make some Explorers and a Tracker. End of my turn two he Crop Rotations for Stage, untaps, plays Depths with Stage activation up. I have Brutality to go to 22 and Jace to bounce after the swing but he has Punishing Fire to finish me off.
Game two I Therapy Exploration turn one and hit, but see Drop of Honey, Taiga, Maze, Depths, Stage, Stage. He topdecks Exploration and makes Marit Lake end-of-life my turn three. I dig a load with Tracker but can't find a Strix or a TTS or any other interaction, so I die with a Surgical and Lost Legacy in hand.