Alright, let’s cut straight to the chase. Last week, I whet your appetites for the newest Planeswalker to be spoiled, Mr. Fayden. This week, I give you my first pass at several varieties of lists that we can jam our new Superfriend into. These are by no means finished products, as we have yet to have any chance to actually test them out and optimize them. I should also mention that we may yet get even crazier new cards for Legacy in Conspiracy, since WotC has never shied away at a chance to introduce mega-pushed, format-warping cards in sets that bypass Standard and Modern. That said, let’s run through some of the ideas that have been stewing in my head.

The first list isn’t incredibly original. I’m just jamming Dack and a tutorable Liquimetal Coating into an existing Tezzeret shell. I mostly just like the fit due to that combo, but there are probably more powerful things that we can do with Dack than this.

Dack Tezzerator

Creature (4)
Baleful Strix

Instant (4)
Force of Will

Sorcery (2)
Transmute Artifact

Planeswalker (28)
Dack Fayden
Tezzeret the Seeker
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Liquimetal Coating
Nihil Spellbomb
Ratchet Bomb
Sword of the Meek
Ensnaring Bridge
Talisman of Dominance
Thopter Foundry
Chalice of the Void
Dimir Signet

Land (22)
Academy Ruins
Mountain
Island
Seat of the Synod
Swamp
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
City of Traitors
Scalding Tarn
Volcanic Island
Underground Sea
Ancient Tomb
Polluted Delta

Up next, we have a RUG list that seeks to abuse the interaction of Dack and Punishing Fire. If we have two P.Fires, his +1 just turns into a “draw two!” Other supporting cast members that can play friendly with Dack include Squee, Life from the Loam, and a single copy of Liquimetal Coating. A copy of Intuition helps tie all the pieces together. And who loves a full graveyard more than ‘goyf?

Punishing Dack

Planeswalkers (6)
Dack Fayden
Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Creatures (12)
Bloodbraid Elf
Deathrite Shaman
Squee, Goblin Nabob
Tarmogoyf

Spells (19)
Liquimetal Coating
Brainstorm
Force of Will
Intuition
Lightning Bolt
Spell Pierce
Life from the Loam
Punishing Fire
Lands (23)
Academy Ruins
Forest
Grove of the Burnwillows
Island
Misty Rainforest
Mountain
Scalding Tarn
Tropical Island
Volcanic Island
Wasteland
Underground Sea

This next list is quite deranged. I think I just liked the name “Dack Stax,” and felt that I needed to make it happen. I’ve actually goldfish tested this one using a randomizer in Excel (I guess I could’ve also just proxied some Dacks), and tweaked the numbers to get this to a point that I was happy with. The early iterations had some hella clunky draws, and I’ll be honest, this version does, as well. I initially ran only two Jaces, but found that with the acceleration that this deck has, it’s not uncommon to power out a turn two Jace, so a third copy was pretty worth it. This deck has some serious nut-draw potential. Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, the clunky draws do exist, and playing four copies of Chalice makes it hard for us to fix that with cantrips. Still, I think this has potential. It’s pretty filthy when you can get a live Smokestack, and you’re coating their permanents with metal and stealing them with Dack. If there were a flex slot here, it would probably be Staff of Nin.

Dack Stax

Planeswalkers (7)
Dack Fayden
Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Spells (29)
Chalice of the Void
Crucible of Worlds
Ensnaring Bridge
Izzet Signet
Liquimetal Coating
Mox Diamond
Smokestack
Staff of Nin
Trinisphere
Transmute Artifact
Lands (24)
Academy Ruins
Ancient Tomb
City of Traitors
Island
Mountain
Scalding Tarn
Tolaria West
Volcanic Island
Wasteland

Here, we have a Grixis midrange deck, putting Dack into the slot that would typically be occupied by Lily. My favorite interaction in this list is the Dack-Notion Thief combo, where you get to turn Dack’s +1 into “draw two; target opponent discards two.” It feels a little inconsistent, and probably could use a little more synergy, but I think we have something worth building around. Maybe we should try to find room to jam in the trifecta of IntuitionAcademy RuinsLiquimetal Coating, since that seems like a fine play in any Dack list.

Grixis Dack

Planeswalkers (5)
Dack Fayden
Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Creatures (14)
Baleful Strix
Deathrite Shaman
Notion Thief
Snapcaster Mage
True-Name Nemesis

Spells (18)
Brainstorm
Dismember
Force of Will
Lightning Bolt
Spell Pierce
Spell Snare
Thoughtseize
Lands (23)
Bloodstained Mire
Island
Mountain
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Swamp
Tropical Island
Volcanic Island
Underground Sea
Wasteland

The last list that I want to explore for this week is a take on Sam Black’s Zombie-Bombardment and some of the newer Pyromancer-based builds. You might notice the conspicuous absence of countermagic, particularly Force of Will, in this list, but I felt that we didn’t have enough blue cards to support Force (at least in the main), and there wasn’t enough room to cut enough red/black to make it work. Blue is the tertiary color, here, and it’s mostly just to get Dack out.. but I can’t resist Brainstorm, so we’re playing that, too!

Grixis Dack (zombie-bombardment)

Planeswalkers (3)
Dack Fayden

Creatures (19)
Blood Artist
Bloodghast
Gravecrawler
Rotlung Reanimator
Tymaret, the Murder King
Young Pyromancer

Spells (16)
Goblin Bombardment
Brainstorm
Lightning Bolt
Cabal Therapy
Faithless Looting
Gitaxian Probe
Lands (22)
Badlands
Bloodstained Mire
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Volcanic Island
Underground Sea
Wasteland

There were also two ideas that I tried to flesh something out, but couldn’t quite find a mix that I was satisfied with posting. I’ll leave the challenge to you to come up with something. I tried to come up with a Dack-dredge list and a Painted-Dack (Grindstone-Servant combo) list, but ended up getting.. uhh.. “brewer’s block.” I think solid lists exist for each of those, though, especially if Dredge ultimately decides to up their land-count (and maybe cut the LEDs) with the new-found ability to run eight copies of City of Brass.

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