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Spoiler Highlight: Repurposing Bay in Legacy!

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Do you have a useless artifact and want to turn it into something new? Repurposing Bay lets you turn old artifacts into new ones, and might inspire a new archetype in Legacy!

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  1. > Repurposing Bay in Legacy
    1. Wait, Doesn't That Look a Bit Familiar?
    2. Hey, This Doesn't Cost 7 Mana!
    3. Piecing Everything Together
  2. > Final Words

Repurposing Bay in Legacy

Hello, Legacy community! Though one month of the year has passed, I didn't feel 2025 had truly begun until today because spoiler season hadn't started yet, and it always marks the beginning of a new cycle — that is, another Magic: The Gathering set!

Some Aetherdriftlink outside website cards have already been revealed, and I've been busy digging through them to see if there is anything relevant for Legacy.

I confess that, so far, this set seems quite detached from everything that sees play in our ancient format. Max Speed seems too slow for Legacy, and many synergies with Vehicles and Mounts seem better for Standard.

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However, in the middle of them, I found this:

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Wait, Doesn't That Look a Bit Familiar?

Straight away, we can compare Repurposing Bay to Birthing Pod, a card powerful enough to be banned in Modern, but that practically doesn't see play in Legacy. Then, I remembered we can put artifacts in play much more easily than creatures, that cards like Tinker are banned in Legacy, and that Transmute Artifact sometimes sees some play. Effects that swap one artifact for another are common in decks that use Goblin Welder and Goblin Engineer.

Keep in mind that most powerful effects that tutor cards are also banned in this format. Finally, Repurposing Bay puts the new artifact directly in play, so we can definitely put our minds together and come up with a broken strategy or combo with it.

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Unlike some cards that already have a home before they're even out (my last spoiler highlight was Boltwave, so, you get the gist), Repurposing Bay is a true enigma. It doesn't fit into any existing deck straight away — instead, we'll have to build a deck around it.

Some deck structures, like Forge Combo and 8-Cast, could show us a way to follow, but this card, undeniably, will force us to work if we want to get the most out of it.

Hey, This Doesn't Cost 7 Mana!

When you look at Repurposing Bay, you'll notice that you need to use an ascending chain of artifacts to get value from it: you need to find 1-cost artifacts by sacrificing Seat of the Synod and Mox Opal, and then find 2-cost artifacts afterward by sacrificing those, and so on and so forth.

You can sacrifice Grim Monolith and Basalt Monolith after you create mana with them — the 2-cost artifact can find you a second Repurposing Bay, and the 3-cost artifact can start a new sequence with Mystic Forge or The One Ring. Then, you can sacrifice those to find Paradox Engine. That is, considering a linear flow.

You'll start having fun with Repurposing Bay when you cheat cards into play based on the mana costs of the artifacts you sacrifice. In this case, the full cost of Affinity cards like Thought Monitor and Sojourner's Companion is what matters, even if you put them in play for 0 or 1 mana before you sacrifice them. This will, in turn, let you put in play broken cards like Sundering Titan, Sphinx of the Steel Wind, Darksteel Monolith, or Possessed Portal. Sacrificing artifacts that cost more will let you put in play Portal to Phyrexia or Inkwell Leviathan.

A nice reminder is that, though cards with Prototype might seem useful to cheat out other cards into play, they don't exactly work the same: the cost of the cards you play with Prototype change. So, you can't use their full cost to find cards with Repurposing Bay.

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Piecing Everything Together

Some players are really good at building decks from just a few ideas, others are best at finding archetypes and refining them. I like to think of myself as the latter, so I'm struggling to imagine a functional list that makes the most out of Repurposing Bay. What I know is that this card will find us many combo pieces and start a sequence of artifacts that will be difficult to ignore. Some crazy TCG scientist will certainly find a way to break it, considering a permanent effect that lets you find cards in your deck is nothing to scoff at.

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And, finally, here's the mandatory reminder: this is Legacy and this card is blue. You know what this means - it is fuel for Force of Will if needed.

Final Words

As I said before, in general, Standard-focused sets don't give Legacy many new strategies. Still, there is always something in them that inspires us to build new decks, and Repurposing Bay definitely does that.

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Thank you for reading, and see you next time!