H&L Only

by pumplekin on 21 April 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Planeswalkers (1)

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Deck Description

For those interested in this, it was created for a local tournament run by a shop called "Heroes and Legends" in Surbiton (http://www.heroesandlegendsgames.com/).

The rules of the construction were to build a Vintage legal deck which contained only cards starting with the letters H or L (with the exception of Basic Lands). Only the "main" name of the card counted (front/top side for doublesided / flip cards, or the left side of split cards).

I wanted to play something a little different, but I was expecting lots of R/G/W aggro decks, as "Lighting", "Loxodon" (smiter/hierarch/warhammer), "Hero" are all good words.

In the end, I decided to play a control deck which I thought would have a strong matchup against the midrangey aggro decks I was expecting, and I wanted an excuse to play old cards, so I tried to jam as many as I possibly could into the deck.

I spent about 2 hours with Gatherer brewing for this, and about 2 more hours actually finding all the cards I needed (those Last Gasp's got horribly lost).

How to Play

Designed to hate on creatures, the deck has a combo win in Leyline + Helm, generally you want to keep killing creatures, taking as little early damage as possible and then start turning creatures into non-issues with Humilty. The deck has plenty of synergy, in :-

Humility + Lingering Souls = Good Times.
Humility + Sideboard Hideous Laughter = Good Times.
Land Tax + The Splice cost of Horobi's Whisper comes up in sideboarded games more than you might expect.
Humility + Last Gasp isn't an often used combo, but obviously works.
Leyline (although mostly used for the combo kill aspects) is useful in shutting down Hound of Griselbrand, Hellspark Elemental and Hell's Thunder, all of which I expected to be popular cards.
Halimar Depths (as well as to a lesser extent Lim Dul's Vault) loves the shuffle effects of Land Tax + Lim Dul's Vault and Lat-Nam's Legacy.

Other lines I considered included using "Hedron-Fields Purists", which works really well with Humility, and some more tutor in Liliana Vess, but in the end stuck with the list above.

The sideboard has the 4 hydroblasts, as red is good in the H&L format, Leave No Trace for Leyline of Untargetability, as I didn't want to have zero outs to that card, and Leave No Trace is perfect in that it kills multiples, and some extra creature kill that I could board, mostly so I could trade out Last Gasp if it wasn't going to kill anything useful.

Lim-Dul's Vault is effectively a bunch of extra copies of your kill card, providing you have enough life.

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

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