Noob Thoughts gets to Legacy

This week I’m going to talk about the format where you might see goblin lackeys walking around and is completely Tarmo infested. I’m talking of course about legacy.

One of my friends challenged me to make a GBW (The Rock Deck) that could beat goblins and still be competitive (so no plague main or other gobbo hate). So I started analyzing the format and realize that average number of lands is about 22 (including about 6 to 8 fetchs) and I thought “Man, a land destruction deck can really hurt some decks”

So I started to think about a land destruction deck that could be effective. The best land destruction currently in legacy are:

-Wasteland, eye for an eye land for a land.
-Sinkhole; just the best land destruction spell ever…
-Vindicate, very flexible, can either destroy the opponent’s Tropical Island or his Tarmogoyf.
-Stifle, targeting a fetch it can be a 1 mana sinkhole.
-Molten rain, sinkhole and shock together….

CACHIM, 3 top cards of land destruction fit in a GBW deck. Now I had a small idea of how the deck could be I started look for cards that fit my deck idea:

-Terravore: This guy just loves Wasteland and your enemy fetchs feeding him.

-Knight of The Reliquary: One side Terravore, also can fetch for Wastelands or other non-basic lands.

-Smallpox: I thought I needed some more land destruction, also smallpox most of the times eats a creature from the opponent.

With no further delays I present you my deck:

NT Rock (Noob Thoughts Rock)

2 Terravore
4 Knight of The Reliquary
4 Sinkhole
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Smallpox
4 Vindicate
4 Thoughtseize
2 Duress
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Pernicious Deed
1 Savannah
3 Bayou
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Forest
1 Plains
3 Scrubland
1 Swamp
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
3 Mishra's Factory

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Duress
4 Engineered Plague
2 Krosan Grip
2 Choke
1 Ravenous Trap

I ‘ll now explain my choices : XD

-Knight, Terravore, Smallpox, Sinkhole and Wasteland are already explained (see above)

-Hymn to Tourach, Duress and Thoughtseize: This is the discard part from the normal rock, I think Hymn to Tourach + Thoughtseize and Duress as backup can make a lot of damage.

- Swords to Plowshares: the best spot removal…

- Pernicious Deed: the MVP of the deck against merfolk, gobbos, affinity, enchantress and other aggro decks

- Mishra's Factory: I really think Mishra's Factory is so good, it’s a 3/3 blocker activated for 1 can be fetched with Knight and can help the beat down.

Sideboard:

-Leyline and Ravenous trap: Dredge can be a pain in the ass for this deck; also Leyline stops a lot of decks that need the grave to work out.

-Duress: 4 Duress, 4 Hymn and 4 Seize hmmm gg combo?

-Engineered Plague: It has to beat goblins remember: P

-Krosan Grip: Best artifact and enchantment removal ever made.

-Choke: A blast against U decks, now most of his lands only have one shot to produce mana.

This decks beats almost any decks that uses only 18 to 21 lands (combo, most of multi-aggro, The Rock, etc).Hymn to Tourach and Thoughtseize take out combo and most of control decks and deed takes the aggro players out.

I’m not sure about lands deck, but I think NT Rock has the advantage.

So I think this deck does well in overall.
I would love to see some NT Rocks in the next top8s, hey I can still dream: P

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Theptkid