Hello everyone,<\/p>\n
This will be my first post here on Average Joes but I have been around swearing I will write an article since the beginning of the site. \u00a0I want to share with everyone my thoughts and experience in relation to GP Atlanta as it was a great time and a very educational experience for me as a Magic player.<\/p>\n
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People know me as the brewer, the guy that can never make up his mind, the one that owns no cards due to constant selling and re-buying to enable brewing, etc. \u00a0I started the process of brewing for GP Atlanta a while back but first let me sum up my past with the Legacy format.<\/p>\n
My experience with this format is very lackluster at best. \u00a0AdamRA4 got me into the Legacy format about 5 months ago during the SCG Open in Tampa, Florida. \u00a0At that point I had been playing Magic: The Gathering for around 8 months so the format was incredibly intimidating to me. \u00a0I ended up playing Mono-Red back then as a first time player and didn’t do too well (0-3 drop) but I did learn a whole lot about some of the many decks in Legacy and how awesome the format truly was. \u00a0I also played an old version of Hypergenesis (before Shardless Agent <\/a>) back at the SCG Open in Orlando, FL but in this case the deck was handed to me the night before and I didn’t even have time to fishbowl the deck due to me coming off a pretty exciting day of Standard where the Average Joes took a top 8 spot (Bruce Strong with Delver) and I started the day off 6-0 in a 9 round tournament with a Naya Ramp brew I designed the night before.<\/p>\n I brewed up a couple decks during the months prior to the GP but I didn’t have much luck with them as most of them were pure hate decks designed to have a good match up against RUG Delver and a somewhat good matchup against graveyard decks. \u00a0At the point that I brewed these up my experience in Legacy was pretty much the two tournaments I listed above. \u00a0About two weeks \u00a0before the GP is when I started taking brewing a little more seriously and started wanting to build some real decks that I thought might have a chance at the GP.<\/p>\n After extensive testing against Dredge, Maverick, RUG Delver, Sneak and Show, Enchantress, and some other decks that we proxied up to playtest with I came up with a brew that I thought was going to do well and got permission to borrow the cards to put it together — here is the list. \u00a0I called it Swiss Blade and you’ll see why.<\/p>\n