Viable Legacy Deck without newer cards

Hi all,

this weekend is a Grand Prix Trial tournament really close to where I
live, so I'm thinking about temporarily ending my Magic retirement and
competing once again.

The Problem is: I've skipped the last 15 or so expansion sets, and I
don't feel very motivated to get to know them all in one week

However, since it is Legacy Format, I do have plenty of old cards
available, so what I would like to do is take an 'old' deck archetype,
which I have familiarity with, and bring it a bit up-to-date with the
current scene.

These are some of the decks I'm very familiar with:

* Monoblue control (20 counters, 4 disks, Impulses, Stalking Stones)
* CounterSliver
* CounterPhoenix
* PT Junk (U/W/R variant, Lions, Knights, Frenetics)
* Discard decks (Hymn, Spectre, ...)

Now, I don't believe the tournament will be *extremely* high level, so
the number of combo decks present might actually be quite low. I'm
primarily concerned with being able to beat goblins and other weenies.

Anyone have any suggestions which of my 'golden oldies' decks I can
actualise and have some kind of a chance in the current format? I might
be able to borrow a *few* newer cards to include in the deck, but not a
whole deck. ('newer' for me means everything after the Urza's block


Thanks for any replies!!

Sam

<sam.goutsmit RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> this weekend is a Grand Prix Trial tournament really close to where I
> live, so I'm thinking about temporarily ending my Magic retirement and
> competing once again.
>
> The Problem is: I've skipped the last 15 or so expansion sets, and I
> don't feel very motivated to get to know them all in one week
>
> However, since it is Legacy Format, I do have plenty of old cards
> available, so what I would like to do is take an 'old' deck archetype,
> which I have familiarity with, and bring it a bit up-to-date with the
> current scene.
>
> These are some of the decks I'm very familiar with:
>
> * Monoblue control (20 counters, 4 disks, Impulses, Stalking Stones)
> * CounterSliver
> * CounterPhoenix
> * PT Junk (U/W/R variant, Lions, Knights, Frenetics)
> * Discard decks (Hymn, Spectre, ...)
>
> Now, I don't believe the tournament will be *extremely* high level, so
> the number of combo decks present might actually be quite low. I'm
> primarily concerned with being able to beat goblins and other weenies.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions which of my 'golden oldies' decks I can
> actualise and have some kind of a chance in the current format? I might
> be able to borrow a *few* newer cards to include in the deck, but not a
> whole deck. ('newer' for me means everything after the Urza's block
>

From what I've seen, there's not much you'd have to concern yourself with in
the newer sets. For Type 1 (Vintage - and yes, I *know* you said Legacy, but
most of what counts in one format will do the job in the other as well, with
a small handful of exceptions):

Masques block: Squee, Goblin Nabob; Misdirection; Foil; Daze; Rishadan Port;
Land Grant
Invasion block: Fact or Fiction; Meddling Mage; Terminate; Fire/Ice;
Pernicious Deed
Odyssey block: Psychatog; Nantuko Shade; Basking Rootwalla; Arrogant Wurm;
Fiery Temper; Volcanic Eruption; Worldgorger Dragon; Circular Logic;
Cunning/Living/Burning/Golden/Death Wish; Compulsion; Moment's Peace;
Firebolt; Deep Analysis
Onslaught block: Wellwisher; Exalted Angel; Tendrils of Agony; Brain Freeze;
fetchlands
Mirrodin block: Chrome Mox; 'affinity for..' (mostly artifacts); Arcbound
Ravager; Goblin Charbelcher; Darksteel Colossus; Pentavus; Thirst for
Knowledge; Engineered Explosives; Isochron Scepter; Trinisphere; Chalice of
the Void; Tooth and Nail
Kamigawa block: Zo-Zu the Punisher; Ninja of the Deep Hours; Pithing Needle;
Shining/Disrupting/Sickening/Blazing/Nourishing Shoal; Sakura-Tribe Elder;
Cranial Extraction; Gifts Ungiven; Umezawa's Jitte

That's all I can think of that really had any impact on older formats.
Ravnica is IMO too new, but so far the big stars seem to be the neo-duals,
Putrefy, Flame Fusillade, and Dark Confidant. The list is incomplete, of
course, but if you can get your brain wrapped around what these cards do,
you'll be covered for most of the big stuff - and you can build and tweak
your deck accordingly.

Hope this helps!
Erich