Legacy Threat Levels: What’s REALLY Going On

About this episode

The episode assesses the health of the Legacy format through various metrics and trends.

Is Legacy getting healthier? In this episode, we assess current Threat Level data , a metric that tracks how dominant cards are based on play rate and deck saturation, as well as: • The rise of Flow State • Why Orcish Bowmasters is finally trending down • Urza’s Saga’s massive surge • The impact of new design vs. bans on format health • How to interpret impact of threat level vs gameplay (and why cards like Thassa’s Oracle should be viewed differently • The cyclical nature of format-defining cards • What trends suggest for the future Full spreadsheet + data references discussed in the episode:

People in this episode

Host: EternalDurdles

Topics covered

• Threat Level data
• card dominance
• format health
• gameplay impact
• cyclical nature of cards
• future trends

Keywords

• Legacy
• Threat Level
• Flow State
• Orcish Bowmasters
• Urza’s Saga
• Thassa’s Oracle
• format health
• card trends

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Legacy

Products: Flow State, Orcish Bowmasters, Urza’s Saga, Thassa’s Oracle

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