Other Legacy Decks to Check Out: Goblin CHarbelcher – https://youtu.be/k9jR4_23GTo
Grixis Law – https://youtu.be/m1692pPUseA
An Introduction To Legacy And Budget Burn: https://youtu.be/9z-3VZEN2s8
–Mainboard–
1 Bayou
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Swamp
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Genesis Hydra
4 Misthollow Griffin
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Tidespout Tyrant
2 Vendilion Clique
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
4 Food Chain
4 Force of Will
4 Manipulate Fate
–Sideboard–
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Misdirection
2 Disfigure
2 Duress
1 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
2 Venser Shaper Savant
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Karakas
2 Leyline of the Void
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Legacy Food Chain is an interesting hybrid of Combo and Control. This is part of its appeal, offering flexible play and strategy, but it is also part of what holds it back, keeping it from not being as fast a combo as Show And Tell, and of course nowhere as good a control deck as Miracles.
Still, while Legacy Food Chain is not a top tier deck, it is a lot of fun to play, and while it may not win a GP, it is competitive and strong enough to do well at your local game store’s Legacy Events.
Let’s take a look at what this deck seeks to do:
Food chain pairs the card Food Chain with Misthollow Griffin to create an engine of infinite mana of any color. Food chain allows you to exile any creature you control and get that creature’s converted mana cost plus one in any one color.
Misthollow Griffin is a ¾ Flying for two blue and two that can be cast from exile. By exiling griffin with food chain you generate 5 blue mana, but you only need 4 of that to recast giffin from exile. Once you’ve cast griffin from exile you have one extra mana, and now can exile griffin again for five more mana.
There’s A LOT of options for what you want to do with that infinite mana engine, and this is where food chain players get to tweak and customize their decks to reflect them and their needs.
The most popular strategy is to mainboard Emrakul and hardcast her, as once you have the Food Chain and Griffin you have infinite mana, but I have seen others enjoy using Banefire for a million points of damage that can’t be countered or prevented.
This Food Chain list actually uses Genesis Hydra, not so much to create to create a 40/40 creature, give or take, depending on how many cards are left in your library, but to essentially be able to reveal the next 40 or so cards and put any one non-land permanent of them into play.