Building A Better Treshold

Threshold is a control deck in Legacy that only plays under three casting cost spells and wins with Tarmogoyf or Nimble Mongoose. It runs Very effective burn spells and draw spells like Brainstorm and Lightning Bolt. The deck wants to sink as many cards as it can to the graveyard then beat down with a latterly untouchable Nimble Mongoose. Force of Will and other counter spells are here to keep your opponent's spells off the bored. Let's take a look at the shell of the deck by looking at various builds from different 5K Tournaments.




First we have a deck from the Star City Games Dallas 5K that happened just a few weeks ago.



Threshold
Simon Sung
2010 Star City $5k Legacy Open - Dallas
Legacy

Main Deck:
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf

4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Fire // Ice
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
4 Spell Snare
4 Stifle

1 Forest
1 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland

Sideboard:
2 Krosan Grip
2 Pithing Needle
2 Price of Progress
1 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Submerge
3 Tormod's Crypt


As you can see Simon included Grim Lavamancer which is a neat card for taking down zoo decks as it clips away at most of their creatures. Plus, it isn't hard to keep creatures in your graveyard either. Next we have a different 75 from the Los Angeles 5k.



Threshold
Sam Blau
2010 Star City $5k Legacy Open - Los Angeles
Legacy

Main Deck:
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique

4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Fire // Ice
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
4 Spell Snare
4 Stifle

3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland

Sideboard:
4 ?
2 Krosan Grip
2 Mind Harness
4 Submerge
3 Tormod's Crypt

Sam played Vendilion Clique in place of Grim Lavamancer. Although Clique is good I still like Lavamancer better. The decks are both almost exact except for the two card difference in each list.



Now my problem is that I do not own any duals, or Wasteland. So I am resorted to the Ravnica Shock lands.

4c

Without further ado here is my list.




Threshold
phazr
Legacy

Main Deck:
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf

4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Fire // Ice
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
3 Spell Snare
4 Stifle

4 Breeding Pool
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Flooded Grove
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents

Sideboard:
3 Firespout
2 Krosan Grip
1 Pithing Needle
4 Pyroblast
2 Submerge
3 Tormod's Crypt


I decided to play a full set of Lavamancers because they just seem so good. I hope I can Manage to find at least a few duals before the tournament though.



This is what I am going to play in the tournament, Be ready for a report after it!


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Stay Tuned,
Phazr.