Legacy Before Delver Changed Everything

What would Legacy look like if you went back to the format before Innistrad Block completely changed the metagame? That's the idea behind Classic Legacy . Innistrad introduced—or coincided with—the arrival of some of the cards and archetypes that became fundamental to how modern Legacy is played: Delver of Secrets, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Griselbrand, and the Miracles strategy . Classic Legacy stops before that transformation, forcing familiar archetypes to solve their problems without many of the cards we've come to treat as Legacy staples. Zac and Phil go through a series of Classic Legacy decks and ask: What did these archetypes actually look like before their defining cards existed? We look at: CounterTop / Blue-White Control without Terminus Storm without Past in Flames Canadian Threshold without Delver of Secrets Stone Blade-style decks without True-Name Nemesis or Batterskull Lands before Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage Aggro Loam without Green Sun's Zenith Merfolk without Master of the Pearl Trident Dredge before some of its later tools Affinity before the Scars of Mirrodin artifact explosion One of the biggest themes is just how much one card can reshape an entire arch…