Lands or Elves?

[Thetrufflehunter]

so I'm going to get into legacy.

Should I build Eternal Garden (Lands by Bahra) or Elves (by Ross Merriam)?

[Mattao19]

Both are sweet. They both seem like they're extremely hard to pilot. So chose wisely

I like them both in the end

[Falcon182]

From a practical standpoint, lands is an extremely expensive deck to build, with numerous pieces that would be difficult to acquire in trades. Elves is a more reasonable goal. No offense intended I just think it'd be more attainable.

[ihasfrozen]

From a practical standpoint, lands is an extremely expensive deck to build, with numerous pieces that would be difficult to acquire in trades. Elves is a more reasonable goal. No offense intended I just think it'd be more attainable.

I would argue that they both are somewhat restricting in terms of flexibility, and neither is really going to be capable of trading towards, unless you already have eternal staples. Elves is the only deck that plays more than one {Gaea's Cradle}, while Lands is the only deck to play {The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale}, so you're tying up a lot of liquidity in some very narrow/specific cards either way.

They both have some flexible pieces, such as {Bayou}'s, fetches, {Deathrite Shaman}, {Green Sun's Zenith}, and (debatable) {Natural Order} in elves and {Rishadan Port}, {Wasteland}, {Taiga}'s (and other duals sometimes), and {Grove of the Burnwillows} in Lands.

I think it comes down to what you enjoy playing, and you're really only going to know that from testing both decks, whether with proxies or borrowing from people.

Both decks are too expensive to just buy and find out you don't like the play style, because even the cards I listed are pretty restricting in terms of what you could pivot to. Lands would really only easily pivot to Death and Taxes (another prison/control deck). Elves most easily pivots to a BGx (maverick, jund, etc.) midrange deck of some sort.

[Thetrufflehunter]

I'd be staying away from Tabernacle for the time being. I'll test both decks and choose from there. Replacements for 'Nacle?

[Falcon182]

I'd be staying away from Tabernacle for the time being. I'll test both decks and choose from there. Replacements for 'Nacle?

None, really. Maybe another  {Maze of Ith} or an extra utility land like  {Ghost Quarter}...

[InfinitiveDivinity]

Replacements for 'Nacle?

Probably like 4 {Quirion Ranger}, 4 {Elvish Visionary}, 4 {Wildwood Symbiote}, 4 {Gaea's Cradle}...

Just play Elves like a real man! 😉

[Falcon182]

{Magus of the Tabernacle}

Seriously though, you can run lands without tabernacle. It will not be optimal obviously, but you can still have the deck until you can save up to get it.

The big thing is what do you want play? The only true prison deck in the format is Lands. Death and Taxes can play like a prison deck, but it's not a true one. I would agree with ihasfrozen though, playtest the .poo. out of them and pick the one you like best.

Did you guys see that angel prison deck someone played in an scg event maybe 3-4 months ago? Not tier 1 obv but seemed pretty hateful.

[Munchlax]

Lands is fun. Played it for about a year

[cltrn81]

Lands is fun. Played it for about a year

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjh2cie9h7d3uk8/2f2159fbe10aec139e3bb35eab5880ac.jpg?dl=0

[Falcon182]

Lands is fun. Played it for about a year

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjh2cie9h7d3uk8/2f2159fbe10aec139e3bb35eab5880ac.jpg?dl=0

Hahaha

[Rass]

Lands is fun. Played it for about a year

1up