Legacy is one of my favourite formats and i seek out every opportunity to play. However, it is not always easy to find legacy play. The next best thing? Playing a deck that closely resembles a legacy deck! Today’s deck takes its influence from the legacy staple, Death and Taxes , but with a new modern twist and plenty of exciting and cool synergies.

Death and Eldrazi combines your typical disruption plan of Death and Taxes, combining it with the powerful Eldrazi from the Battle for Zendikar block, giving you more synergy and more interaction than before.

I didn’t get the chance to play this past weekend, instead I got the opportunity to judge. This gave me a very interesting perspective, I got to watch! I got to see the cool decks and tech people came up with, and this deck here caught my eye.

Piloted by Christopher Davies to a top 8 finish, this archetype isn’t new, it’s existed for a little while. That being said there has been very little content on the deck, so today I want to highlight some of the synergies, the power level and all round awesomeness this deck!

Flickerwisp is a very powerful card! This unassuming 3/1 flyer does so so much! Lets start of with the simple part, if you AEther vial it in during your opponents end step, the permanent does not come back till your end step! This is a easy way to remove important blockers for a turn! What it also enables your Wasteland stranger! If the card removed by Flickerwisp gets stranglered, the card is put into the graveyard permanently. That’s a straight 2 for 0 for a creature based deck! Having the ability to reset your Kitchen fink’s and to make an additional token by flickering your blade splicer helps you drag out the long attrition based games by stretching your opponent’s removal spell’s.

Tidehollow sculler and Thought-knot Seer give the deck some very much needed hand disruption in a very combo centric world, but why not Thoughtseize or any of the typical hand disruption? Well it’s simple, we have Flickerwisp and Eldrazi Displacer! Sculler is especially good with flicker effects! Scullers ability, unlike recent cards like Brain Maggot, Scullers effect is spread over 2 triggers. If you were to blink or remove your sculler before the first trigger resolves the card will be removed from your opponent’s hand FOREVER!

Leonin Arbiter is extremely powerful in a format ruled by fetchland mana bases, and along with both Thalia’s and Ghost Quarter’s give this deck a very powerful mana denial plan, which is quintessential in a meta marked by the recent rise in Bant Eldrazi, Jund and Abzan. Arbiter comes with 1 major downside, you don’t get to play fetch lands yourself! In a lot of decks this would normally ruin your consistency, luckily for us our deck is not very mana intensive so we can afford to take the hit.

Dredge and graveyard based decks have recently been on the rise, so the inclusion of a main deck Rest In Peace is not really a big surprise. In this deck though it performs double duty. If you process a card with a Rest in Peace in play, the card will return to the exile and you will get the process ability, making your wasteland strangler even more consistent.

Thalia, Heretic Cather naturally fits into this style of deck. Modern lacks basic lands, with many decks opting to play 4/5, meaning Thalia makes your opposition have to play of curve, which is the exact type of disruption this deck wants! A 3/2 first strike is not something to laugh at either, creating an efficient blocker and a hard to block attacker.

I am very excited to start getting some play time with this deck and discovering more of the hidden interactions! If you wanna see more of this deck, Chris told me he will start streaming soon, and he will be streaming this deck, so keep an eye out for that!

That’s all from me for this week! Until next time!