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Wizards of the Coast just announced its 2010 Grand Prix schedule, and guess what? We are going to get a double dose of Legacy next year! Not only is Wizards holding a Legacy Grand Prix in Madrid, Spain in February, there will be a Legacy Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio on July 31st! Check it out!

Now is the time to begin learning the format, building your collection and trying out new ideas. You’ve come to the right place.

A month ago I published the Complete Vintage Checklist with trepidation. To understand my concerns, read my article here. I won’t answer all of those questions, concerns or reiterate those caveats except to direct your attention to that article.

This list has several key purposes and uses. First, if you are a Legacy enthusiast, use this list to build your collection. It should enable you to play almost anything in Legacy. Print the list out, and stick it in your trade binder as a handy reference. Second, I’ve keyed the cards that are most commonly played in the format to give you a sense of relative importance. To that end, below the checklist, I’ve organized some information about the checklist that should help you do just that, by listing the double starred cards by themselves. Third, if you are a dealer, a store or a major trader, use this list to acquire Legacy playables and build a Legacy collection for your player base or your Legacy customers.

Key: ** Commonly Played/Format Staples * Niche/ Less Commonly Played

Land:

2 Academy Ruins*
4 Arid Mesa**
4 Ancient Den*
4 Ancient Tomb**
4 Badlands**
4 Barbarian Ring*
4 Bayou**
4 Blinkmoth Nexus*
4 Bloodstained Mire**
4 Cabal Coffers*
4 Cephalid Colsieum*
4 City of Traitors**
4 City of Brass**
2 Darkmar Salvage*
4 Dark Depths*
2 Darksteel Citadel*
2 Dryad Arbor*
2 Dust Bowl*
4 Flagstones of Trokair*
4 Flooded Strand**
X Forest**
4 Forgotten Cave*
3 Gaea’s Cradle*
4 Gemstone Mine**
2 Ghost Quarter*
2 Glacial Chasm*
1 Glimmervoid*
4 Great Furance*
3 Horizon Canopy*
X Island**
1 Keldon Megaliths*
1 Kor Haven*
1 Magosi, the Waterveil*
4 Marsh Flats**
4 Maze of Ith*
4 Mishra’s Factory**
4 Misty Rainforest**
1 Nomad Stadium*
4 Nantuko Monastary*
X Mountain**
4 Mutavault**
X Plains**
4 Plateau**
4 Polluted Delta**
1 Riftstone Portal*
2 Riptide Laboratory*
4 Rishadan Port*
4 Savannah**
4 Scalding Tarn**
4 Scrubland**
4 Seat of Synod*
2 Secluded Step*
2 Serra Sanctum*
X Swamp**
X Snow-Covered (Basic Lands)**
4 Taiga**
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Tomb of Urami*
4 Tranquil Thicket*
4 Tree of Tales*
4 Treetop Village*
4 Tropical Island**
4 Tundra**
4 Underground Sea**
4 Undiscovered Paradise*
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth*
4 Vault of Whispers*
4 Verdant Catacombs**
4 Volcanic Island**
1 Volrath’s Stronghold*
4 Wasteland**
4 Wooded Foothills**
4 Windswept Heath**

Colorless:

4 Aether Vial**
4 Arcbound Ravager*
4 Arcbound Worker*
4 Chalice of the Void**
4 Chrome Mox*
4 Cranial Plating*
2 Crawlspace*
3 Cursed Scroll*
4 Crucible of Worlds**
4 Defense Grid*
4 Engineered Explosives**
4 Ensnaring Bridge*
4 Frogmite*
4 Goblin Charbelcher*
4 Grindstone*
4 Helm of Obedience*
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond**
4 Lotus Petal*
4 Myr Enforcer*
4 Ornithopter*
4 Mox Diamond**
4 Painter’s Servant*
4 Pithing Needle**
4 Phyrexian Dreadnaught*
3 Powder Keg*
4 Relic of Progenitus**
4 Sensei’s Divining Top**
4 Smokestack*
4 Springleaf Drum*
4 Staff of Domination*
4 Tolaria West*
4 Tormod’s Crypt**
4 Trinisphere*
3 Umezawa’s Jitte**
4 Vedalkin Shackles*
4 Zuran Orb*

White:

1 Ajani Vengeant*
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath*
1 Ancestor’s Chosen*
4 Armageddon*
4 Aura of Silence*
4 Baneslayer Angel*
2 Burrenton Forge-Tender*
1 Circle of Protection: Red*
3 Decree of Justice*
2 Disenchant*
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant*
4 Enlightened Tutor*
1 Empyrial Archangel*
1 Eternal Dragon*
4 Ethersworn Canonist*
3 Exalted Angel*
4 Ghostly Prison*
2 Glowrider*
3 Karmic Justice*
1 Kataki, War’s Wage*
4 Harm’s Way*
2 Humility*
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria*
4 Jotun Grunt*
2 Karmic Justice*
4 Magus of the Tabernacle*
2 Moat*
4 Oblivion Ring**
4 Orim’s Chant*
4 Path to Exile**
4 Patrician’s Scorn*
4 Plated Sliver*
4 Ravages of War*
2 Ray of Revelation*
4 Replenish*
1 Reveillark*
4 Rule of Law*
4 Runed Halo*
1 Sacred Ground*
4 Samarai of the Pale Curtain*
4 Seal of Cleansing*
4 Serra Avenger*
1 Sigil of the Empty Throne*
1 Silence*
4 Silver Knight*
4 Sinew Sliver*
4 Solitary Confinement*
4 Soltari Priest*
4 Sphere of Law*
3 Suppression Field*
4 Swords to Plowshares**
4 Tireless Tribe*
4 True Believer*
4 Wispmare*
4 Wrath of God*

Green:

4 Argothian Enchantress*
4 Birds of Paradise*
4 Choke**
4 Elephant Grass*
4 Elvish Spirit Guide*
4 Enchantresses Presence*
4 Eternal Witness*
4 Exploration*
4 Fyndhorn Elves*
2 Garruk Wildspeaker*
1 Genesis*
4 Golgari Grave-Troll*
2 Ground Seal*
4 Heritage Druid*
4 Krosan Grip**
4 Land Grant*
4 Life From the Loam**
4 Living Wish*
4 Llanowar Elf*
4 Manabond*
4 Mold Adder*
4 Muscle Sliver*
1 Naturalize*
4 Natural Order**
4 Nettle Sentinel*
4 Nimble Mongoose**
4 Noble Hierarch*
4 Protean Hulk*
1 Regal Force*
4 Regrowth*
1 Reverant Silence*
4 Seal of Primordium*
4 Skyshroud Elite*
1 Spike Feeder*
4 Survival of the Fittest*
2 Sylvan Library*
4 Sylvan Messanger*
4 Tarmogoyf**
4 Terravore*
2 Troll Ascetic*
4 Tinder Wall*
4 Utopia Sprawl*
4 Vines of Vastwood*
2 Viridian Zealot*
4 Wall of Roots*
4 Wild Growth*
4 Wild Nacatl**
1 Woodfall Primus*
4 Xantid Swarm*

Red:

2 Ancient Grudge*
3 Anarchy*
1 Anger*
4 Arc Slogger*
4 Atog*
4 Boil*
4 Blood Moon*
4 Burning Wish*
4 Chain Lightning**
4 Countryside Crusher*
4 Desperate Ritual*
4 Devastating Dreams*
4 Empty the Warrens*
4 Figure of Destiny*
4 Fireblast**
4 Firespout**
1 Flame Jab*
4 Gamble*
4 Gathan Raiders*
4 Gempalm Incinerator*
4 Goblin Chieftan*
4 Goblin Guide*
4 Goblin Lackey**
4 Goblin Matron**
4 Goblin Piledriver**
4 Goblin Ringleader**
2 Goblin Sharpshooter*
1 Goblin Tinkerer*
4 Goblin Warchief**
1 Grapeshot*
4 Grim Lavamancer**
4 Ingot Chewer*
4 Incinerate*
4 Imperial Recruiter*
2 Jaya Ballard*
4 Keldon Maurader*
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror-Breaker*
4 Kird Ape**
4 Lava Spike*
4 Lightning Bolt**
4 Magma Jet*
4 Magus of the Moon*
2 Meltdown*
4 Mogg Fanatic*
4 Mogg War Marshall*
4 Price of Progress**
4 Pyroblast**
4 Pyroclasm**
4 Pyrokensis*
4 Pyrostatic Pillar*
4 Rakdos Pit Dragon*
4 Red Elemental Blast**
4 Rift Bolt*
4 Rite of Flame*
4 Seething Song*
4 Seismic Assault*
4 Siege-Gang Commander**
4 Simian Spirit Guide*
3 Shattering Spree*
1 Shriekmaw*
4 Stingscourger*
4 Taurean Mauler*
4 Tin-Street Hooligan*
2 Viashino Heretic*
3 Volcanic Fallout*
4 Warren Instigator*
1 Words of War*

Black:

4 Ad Nauseam*
4 Beseech the Queen*
1 Bile Urchin*
4 Bitterblossom*
4 Bloodghast**
1 Body Snatcher*
4 Bridge From Below*
4 Cabal Therapy**
4 Cabal Ritual*
1 Carrion Feeder*
1 Chainer’s Edict*
1 Crippling Fatigue*
4 Damnation*
4 Dark Confidant**
2 Darkblast*
4 Dark Ritual**
4 Deathmark*
4 Diabolic Edict*
4 Disciple of the Vault*
4 Doom Blade*
4 Doomsday*
4 Dread Return*
4 Duress**
1 Dystopia*
4 Engineered Plague*
4 Entomb*
4 Extirpate*
4 Faerie Macabre*
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir*
4 Ghastly Demise*
4 Golgari Thug*
4 Grim Discovery*
3 Haunting Echoes*
1 Helldozer*
4 Hymn to Tourach*
4 Hypnotic Specter*
4 Ichorid*
4 Ill-Gotten Gains*
4 Infernal Tutor*
4 Innocent Blood*
4 Mesmeric Fiend*
4 Nantuko Husk*
4 Nantuko Shade*
4 Necromancy*
4 Perish*
4 Planar Void*
4 Pox*
4 Putrid Imp*
4 Leyline of the Void**
4 Ravenous Trap**
4 Reanimate*
1 Sadistic Hypnotist*
4 Sinkhole**
2 Slaughter Pact*
4 Smallpox*
4 Smother*
4 Snuff Out*
2 Sorin Markov*
4 Stinkweed Imp*
4 Tendrils of Agony*
4 Thoughtseize**
4 Tombstalker**
2 Unearth*
4 Unmask*
4 Vampire Hexmage*
4 Warren Weirding*
4 Yixlid Jailer*

Blue:

4 Ancestral Vision*
4 Annul*
4 Back to Basics**
4 Blue Elemental Blast**
1 Body Double*
4 Brainstorm**
4 Breakthrough*
4 Careful Study*
2 Cephalid Sage*
4 Chain of Vapor*
4 Chill*
4 Counterbalance**
4 Counterspell*
4 Cursecatcher**
4 Daze**
4 Deep Analysis*
4 Diminishing Returns*
4 Disrupt*
4 Divert*
3 Echoing Truth**
2 Energy Flux*
4 Fact or Fiction*
4 Force of Will**
4 Gifts Ungiven*
4 Hydroblast**
2 Hurkyl’s Recall*
4 Intuition*
2 Jace Beleren*
2 Kira, Great Glass Spinner*
4 Lord of Atlantis**
4 Master of Etherium*
1 Meditate*
1 Merfolk Sovereign*
4 Merrow Reejerey**
4 Mindbreak Trap*
4 Mind Harness*
4 Misdirection*
4 Mulldrifter*
4 Mystical Tutor**
4 Narcomoeba*
4 Negate*
4 Pact of Negation*
4 Propoganda*
4 Ponder**
2 Rushing River*
4 Sea Drake*
4 Slivergil Adept**
1 Sphinx of Lost Truths*
3 Sower of Temptation**
4 Spell Pierce*
4 Spell Snare**
4 Spellstutter Sprite*
4 Standstill**
4 Submerge*
4 Stifle**
1 Telemin Performance*
4 Tezzeret the Seeker*
2 Tolarian Winds*
4 Thoughtcast*
4 Threads of Disloyalty**
2 Trickbind*
4 Trinket Mage*
3 Vendillion Clique**
3 Venser, Shaper Savant*
2 Wake Thrasher*
4 Weatherseed Faeries*
4 Winged Sliver*
1 Wipe Away*

Multi-Colored:

2 Boartusk Liege*
2 Cold-Eyed Selkie*
4 Crystalline Sliver*
1 Dovescape*
2 Flame-Kin Zealot*
4 Fire/Ice**
4 Gaddock Teeg*
3 Harmonic Sliver*
1 Hull Breach*
4 Kitchen Finks*
4 Knight of the Reliquary*
4 Lorescale Coatl*
4 Lightning Helix*
4 Manamorphose*
2 Maelstrom Pulse*
4 Meddling Mage*
4 Pernicious Deed*
1 Progenitus**
4 Putrid Leech*
3 Putrify*
4 Qasali Pridemage**
4 Rhox War Monk*
4 Sterling Grove*
4 Terminate*
4 Tidehallow Sculler*
3 Trygon Predator**
4 Vexing Shusher*
4 Vindicate*
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon*
4 Wooly Thoctar*
1 Worm Harvest*
1 Wort, Boggart Auntie*

There it is! That’s about 450 cards. According to Gatherer, there are 10,604 cards legal in Legacy. That means that about 4% of the card pool sees play in Legacy or is Legacy playable.

Here are the double starred cards, separated out:

Land:

4 Arid Mesa**
4 Ancient Tomb**
4 Badlands**
4 Bayou**
4 Bloodstained Mire**
4 City of Traitors**
4 City of Brass**
4 Flooded Strand**
X Forest**
4 Gemstone Mine**
X Island**
1 Keldon Megaliths*
4 Marsh Flats**
4 Mishra’s Factory**
4 Misty Rainforest**
X Mountain**
4 Mutavault**
X Plains**
4 Plateau**
4 Polluted Delta**
4 Savannah**
4 Scalding Tarn**
4 Scrubland**
X Swamp**
X Snow-Covered (Basic Lands)**
4 Taiga**
4 Tropical Island**
4 Tundra**
4 Underground Sea**
4 Verdant Catacombs**
4 Volcanic Island**
1 Volrath’s Stronghold*
4 Wasteland**
4 Wooded Foothills**
4 Windswept Heath**

Colorless:

4 Aether Vial**
4 Chalice of the Void**
4 Crucible of Worlds**
4 Engineered Explosives**
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond**
4 Mox Diamond**
4 Pithing Needle**
4 Relic of Progenitus**
4 Sensei’s Divining Top**
4 Tormod’s Crypt**
3 Umezawa’s Jitte**

White:

4 Oblivion Ring**
4 Path to Exile**
4 Swords to Plowshares**

Green:

4 Choke**
4 Krosan Grip**
4 Life From the Loam**
4 Natural Order**
4 Nimble Mongoose**
4 Tarmogoyf**
4 Wild Nacatl**

Red:

4 Fireblast**
4 Firespout**
4 Goblin Lackey**
4 Goblin Matron**
4 Goblin Piledriver**
4 Goblin Ringleader**
2 Goblin Sharpshooter*
4 Goblin Warchief**
4 Grim Lavamancer**
4 Kird Ape**
4 Lightning Bolt**
4 Price of Progress**
4 Pyroblast**
4 Pyroclasm**
4 Red Elemental Blast**
4 Siege-Gang Commander**

Black:

4 Bloodghast**
4 Cabal Therapy**
4 Dark Confidant**
4 Dark Ritual**
4 Duress**
4 Leyline of the Void**
4 Ravenous Trap**
4 Sinkhole**
4 Thoughtseize**
4 Tombstalker**

Blue:

4 Back to Basics**
4 Blue Elemental Blast**
4 Brainstorm**
4 Counterbalance**
4 Cursecatcher**
4 Daze**
3 Echoing Truth**
4 Force of Will**
4 Hydroblast**
4 Lord of Atlantis**
4 Merrow Reejerey**
4 Mystical Tutor**
4 Ponder**
4 Slivergil Adept**
3 Sower of Temptation**
4 Spell Snare**
4 Standstill**
4 Stifle**
4 Threads of Disloyalty**
3 Vendilion Clique**

Multi-Colored:
4 Fire/Ice**
1 Progenitus**
4 Qasali Pridemage**
3 Trygon Predator**

There it is. Now, a couple of caveats beyond those I already referenced from my Vintage Checklist article. First, I’m certain that there are cards that are Legacy playable that aren’t on this list. Let me know what those cards are. I’ve omitted a few cards that really haven’t proven themselves, like Dream Halls, or cards that haven’t been played to success in some time, like Reset High Tide. I’m sure there are plenty of cards that aren’t on this list, but probably deserve a spot. I made this list from the most recent SCG $5k results and other recent Top 8s.

Second, there are probably a few cards on this list that don’t deserve to be there. Let me know what those cards are as well.

Finally, I’m certain there are cards that should be re-categorized from * to ** and from ** to *. Let me know what those cards are.

I will make changes based upon player feedback and I will make the updated checklist available, through SCG, to premium SCG members as an excel spreadsheet. I haven’t decided whether I’ll do this with the Legacy list, but with each set review, I will update my Vintage list. With each set review, I will include the cards that have become a part of the list from the previous set. I will also paste speculative cards onto the list with a special symbol marking them as possible additions.

I hope you enjoy this resource, and don’t forget to let me know if I’ve missed something important.

Until next week…

Stephen Menendian