![]() ![]() However, if you just run basic Islands instead of the budget alternatives, players think you are just drawing into basic Islands instead of the Mutavaults and Wastelands. If a good player sees that you are substituting Ghost Quarter for Wasteland and Mishra’s Factory for Mutavault in Merfolk, they may make the call that you don’t run Force of Will either, and play accordingly-landing a Choke or a Llawan, Cephalid Empress when you are tapped out. Secondly, playing with budget cards can be a tell to good players. Many decks pack at least one basic, so you would need at least 2 Ghost Quarter to make an impact. Wasteland seeks to destroy a nonbasic and keep them off tempo, whereas Ghost Quarter may not do the same. Disrupting Shoal requires a decent curve, and forces you to hold multiple blue cards in your hand that you would otherwise play. Doing so disrupts the natural balance of the deck. Foil, on the other hand, requires a blue card and an Island, so you can’t just swap them out exactly. Force of Will requires a minimum of 16 blue cards (including itself, if you are using 4 Force of Will), and decks are designed to have that amount. First of all, decks are specifically designed to maximize the value of the specific cards. However, there are several reasons not to do this. For example, the Ravnica shock lands or the Ice Age painlands would take the place of their respective dual lands, Foil or Disrupting Shoal would take Force of Will’s place, and Ghost Quarter or Tectonic Edge would be a budget player’s Wasteland. Because of price, players will often try to replace these cards with a budget version of the card. The first question a budget player asks when they encounter a deck they like but includes one, two, or all of these cards are “What can I replace these with?” These are all cards that are heavily used in Legacy and for that reason, are pretty expensive. If you caught our article last week, you read about three relatively cheap decks that can get you into Legacy – now we’ll cover more! However, before we go into those decks (though you’re welcome to skip down to the decks if you don’t want to read about the next topic) we want to cover a topic that is discussed heavily when it comes to budget decks – substitutions. Welcome back to the Breaking into Legacy column.
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