Magic The Gathering & the Legacy Format

For those who are new, Magic The Gathering is a trading card game with the idea of you being a special type of wizard, known as a planeswalker, which has the ability to travel between different worlds in the multiverse, collecting different magics along your journey, and where you use these magics against other planeswalkers, or who you may know as players.


In Magic, there are a number of different colours of magic, each possessing different attributes. These colours include white, blue, black, red, and green. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Many planeswalkers take different approaches to Magic, some choosing to play multiple colours of magic to tie up their colours' weaknesses, while others prefer consistency and playing a single colour of magic or no colour at all.

As I have stated before, this is a blog for Magic The Gathering that is more focused towards the Legacy format. The Legacy format is best described as being able to play with all the cards in Magic's history, with cards being banned which should have never been printed.

Why am I focusing on the Legacy format? Legacy is a format that is not well supported by Wizards of the Coast, creators of the game. They take more of a focus towards the eternal format, Modern, where every season cards are constantly banned and unbanned, with around the same ten decks being the most powerful. Legacy is very different in that there are hundreds of different decks with their own playstyles, with many being able to take down different decks, with no one deck “giving the best odds of winning”. It also allows for fun interactions with cards from the past with newer printings, with a format that rarely changes.

To put it another way, do you want to summon the scariest creature the multiverse has ever seen within the first few turns? Would you like to constrict your opponent so they cannot wrangle up any spells? Would you like to play many cards a turn while being given extra affects for each card played? Do you like drawing a lot of cards? Or do you want to play without a hand at all? These are just some of the concepts and decks many people play in Legacy and which is why this blog is dedicated to this great format.

Until next time, keep brainstorming Magic.