Fractured RealityGreetings, Legacy community! I enjoyed some nice three weeks of vacation, but here we are again, apparently right where we always end up: waiting for a new set. Before the Star Trek spoiler season begins, though, let’s look at the cards from the last set, Reality Fracture, that are finding their way into competitive Legacy decks.Boros EnergyBoros has not only migrated from Modern to Legacy. It has also established itself as the most effective aggro deck in the format. As it grows more popular, it's becoming more refined, but there is still room for innovation.By far the most successful new card in this archetype has been Enlightened Confidant. This alternative take on “Bob” (Dark Confidant) fits the main game plan well: Guide of Souls and Ocelot Pride naturally give you life, so they allow Confidant to create card advantage as soon as it enters play.Other cards popping up in Boros lists include Liliana the Faultless and Samut, Hazoret’s Champion. Liliana supports the life-gain game plan and protects key creatures at the same time, and Samut is an extremely aggressive card that really fits a deck looking to spam the board quickly.UWx ControlBlue control decks have been well positioned in Legacy for some time, whether they're Azorius, Jeskai, or Bant. Many play the Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd + Quantum Riddler package. These decks are always looking for situational cards that aren't essential to their game plan, such as Back to Basics, Monastery Mentor, Phlage, Titan of Fire’s Fury, and Narset, Parter of Veils.Chandra, Chill of Compliance is another interesting option in that regard. She creates value, can protect herself, and can even accelerate plays while getting to an ultimate that often wins the game.Another intriguing control card is Theorist’s Sanctum, which is a source of constant value, as well as a land that fetch lands can find.Doomsday and Show and TellAlthough Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun drew all the pre-release hype as a way to protect combo decks, Theorist’s Proxy has proved more successful in that role. It is much more proactive and more useful in games that aren’t decided by counterspells. Proxy has appeared in decks that need to resolve a key spell: Doomsday and Show and Tell.HogaakIn our Reality Fracture review, we predicted that Dark Matter Manipulator would fit Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis decks perfectly. Sure enough, it has shown up in traditional Golgari builds as well as an interesting hybrid version that combines Dimir Aggro with Hogaak elements.StormStorm decks were already using Burning Wish effectively to find cards in their sideboards. Extrapolate is different, but it is in better colors.Lands, Pox, and DepthsCarnivorous Cultivator may be the most successful Reality Fracture card in Legacy, as it appears in three different archetypes. Depths and Lands both want to tutor a land into the graveyard to play the Dark Depths combo, while Pox is more interested in recursion. Either way, both sides of this card are useful to these decks. Marwyn, the Preserver is also showing up in some of them, as is Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes in lists that can play Green Sun’s Zenith.CloudpostEmrakul looked like a card for a big-mana deck. Emrakul is now seeing play in Cloudpost lists. Sometimes everything is as it seems. The Eldrazi abomination helps ramp early and, later on, can produce more mana than you know what to do with.Fortunately, this deck has plenty of ways to spend that extra mana, including Kozilek’s Command and Karn, the Great Creator. Speaking of Karn, The Echoverse Fulcrum has appeared in some sideboards as a target for Karn, though in far smaller numbers than I initially expected.Fracture CompleteLike most Standard-focused sets, Reality Fracture hasn’t impacted Legacy all that much or created a new archetype. It has, however, given several decks interesting new tools and brought Hogaak back from obscurity. Other promising cards, such as Darklight Phoenix, Stingcaster Mage, and Pompous Battlemage, have yet to appear in significant numbers.Now it’s time to engage our warp drives and boldly go where no man has gone before: Star Trek! That’s all for today.Thank you for reading, and see you next time!
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