Competitive Legacy League 5-0 Decklists December 8th

DEANMACHINE's 5-0 list this week is the maindeck I would start with, I like the 19 basic mountain deck lists. Not sold on running five 3-drops, but I'm always down to maindeck Sulfuric Vortex people. The alternatives to the 5th 3-drop are Flame Rift, cards that want fetches, or other 3-drops.

Firecraft takes the flex slots, the ones that are sometimes Searing Blaze (with fetches), Flame Rift, Risk Factor, Grim Lavamancer, Sulfuric Vortex, or whatever you feel like that day. Definitely not opposed to only 3 Firecrafts. Point is, the last few cards for the burn deck are all not ideal. Firecraft has the most upside imo.

Your intuition is correct :). I really liked the miracles shell (specifically AK to win control mirrors) but feel the white cards aren't necessary. In general I play it like a synergy deck, trying to maximize the effectiveness of counterbalance w/ 4 snaps and the mission briefing. I kept hymn to a minimum because like you said it messes with the general desire of the deck to hold up mana and doesn't actually contribute to the synergy at all.

Mission briefing is definite worse than snapcaster mage and is often cut in sideboarding, but I do like it's maindeck inclusion. The theory is that in g1 its removal when you need that and permission when you need that, but post board you just take it out for actual removal or actual permission depending on the matchup.

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Counterbalance works great in the deck because you have so many way's to set the top card of your library at instant speed. This deck also plays more 2's than 1's which helps your blind flips in a meta with so many powerful 2 drops (hymn, infernal tutor, exhume, loam, chalice, counterbalance, bitterblossom).

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Daze can come in vs r/b reanimator, but it's main inclusion is for delver matchups. I like trimming 2-3 force against them so that you don't lose on card advantage, so the daze is very nice to keep you from getting tempo'd out of the game and lets you tap out on turn two for CB/Strix/Hymn.

The decision to include red or not is a tough one to be sure and obviously there are lots of people who do well with grixis. But I've always had a bias towards having a rock solid manabase and back to basics is insanely important right now. I think the matchups where red for pyroblast matters the most is against other jace decks, and I think that between CB, AK, Hymn, and To The Slaughter you're matchup vs those strategies is already good.