Spoiler Highlight: Peter Parker's Camera in Legacy!

Smile, Legacy community, it's time for a picture! We already discussed Spider-Punk a few weeks ago, but now the Spider-Man spoiler season is in full throttle! And, this time, there is something that has a lot of potential for our format:

It's no secret that Urza's Saga is one of the most relevant cards in Legacy right now. It sees play in multiple archetypes, from combo to aggro, through midrange, Prison and control. And it will potentially just get better as new sets come out and give us new tools to play with it. It only got better when WotC changed how it interacted with Blood Moon. It's also why artifacts that cost 0 or 1 in Legacy have a huge potential to see play.

Artifacts that you can tutor with the strongest card from Modern Horizons 2 have a huge potential to see play in this format. Particularly when they also have circumstantial abilities that are great in some situations but not always necessary, like Soul-Guide Lantern, Lavaspur Boots, and Pithing Needle.

In that regard, Peter Parker's Camera fits the Saga's toolbox really well. But when is it good? Well... As we'll see ahead, quite often!

As expected of a format as vast as Legacy, it includes an infinite amount of extremely powerful abilities that are worth copying. However, some of them, like Rings of Brighthearth, Illusionist's Bracers, and Strionic Resonator, are quite expensive and can only copy a few abilities. As you can't easily tutor them with the Saga, you'll have to build your deck around them, and none of them are that good for Legacy. This doesn't mean their effects aren't powerful or valuable.

Once you can use this effect without sacrificing too much of your deck, you'll open an array of other possibilities. There are actually many abilities that decks that both use Urza's Saga and are relevant in this format would want to copy. Please remember that, besides the abilities below, we can also just copy another Urza's Saga and fill our board with Construct tokens.

Let's take a look at a few of them:

- Forge Combo: the most basic way to use this card in this deck is to copy The One Ring to draw more cards. But you can also copy Ugin, Eye of the Storms to exile more cards, or Karn, the Great Creator / Tezzeret, Cruel Captain to draw specific cards from your deck. In some situations, you can even create more mana with Candelabra of Tawnos.

- Red Stompy: besides also playing The One Ring, this red list plays a lot of cool stuff you can copy. My favorite is copying Broadside Bombardiers to sacrifice more stuff. I yearn for the opportunity to Evoke a Fury, sacrifice it with Bombardiers, and copy this ability to deal an absurd amount of damage - 14.

You can also copy Fury itself to deal 4 extra damage or copy Pyrogoyf and Reflection of Kiki-Jiki. You can even copy Fable of the Mirror-Breaker.

- Lands: Lands can be brutal if you copy Wasteland, but you can also buy some time by copying Maze of Ith, deal with complicated boards by copying Boseiju, Who Endures, or just copy Expedition Map.

- Artifact Blue/Affinity: these lists have less options to copy than the decks above, but they always create a lot of value when you copy Emry, Lurker of the Loch or Thought Monitor. Eventually, returning 2 creatures to your hand with Aether Spellbomb might just prove too much for your opponent.

- Nadu Midrange: most Nadu Midrange lists don't play the Saga, but those that do also play Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student, and Boseiju, Who Endures.

- Nadu Breakfast: this might be the one Saga list that isn't interested in Peter Parker's Camera, considering the main way it'd use it would be to find Shuko, and it doesn't play as many relevant abilities as the decks above.

Yeah, there are a lot of possibilities to create value with this Camera, and it isn't disposable (if you're old like me, you'll get this reference) - but you can only use it 3 times.

Peter Parker's Camera won't do anything entirely new, and I don't see it inspiring a whole new archetype. But it seems genuinely good to me in Urza's Saga lists. So, the decks we suggested above are nothing new but could become a lot better with some new pictures.

Red Stompy followed this motto to the letter after the Saga rule change, considering the most popular version in the meta right now uses Urza's Saga. This list could also become a lot better with the new artifact above, either by playing it aggressively with Broadside Bombardiers or by creating resources with it and The One Ring. If I had to bet on something, I'd bet on this list playing the new camera.

Forge should also get a lot from the camera, but I doubt if it will be more useful than another Manifold Key. In any case, it interacts with Planeswalkers better than the keys and could give you a lot of resources as it does.

I also believe Lands will get a lot from the new camera. You could break 2 lands with just one Wasteland with it or even make The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale even more impactful. There's a lot you can do with it in this list.

When new cards come out in Standard-focused sets, we typically see some that have potential for older formats, but we don't know where and how we'll play them. This is not the case. Peter Parker's Camera seems to be designed with Urza's Saga in mind and should fit decks that use it like a glove. I'm already waiting for it with my Broadside Bombardiers, ready to throw twice as many things at my opponents!

What do you think? Tell us your thoughts in our comment section below.

Thank you for reading, and see you next time!