Ways to enjoy Legacy - Samurai Showdown-only Format (Order Sogetsu)

[MarcoPulleaux 0]

Legacy is a pretty daunting format. With everything legal, it's hard to decide what to run, and what to counter. Furthermore, people simply do not enjoy playing it.

So I figured I'd do legacy differently. From now on, any time I create a Legacy event, it's going to be themed. For this theme, I used a Samurai Showdown only format, and I think it looks pretty sweet.

Order Sogetsu

Actions: 3

3x High Tide 4/5

Assets: 4

2x Dark Chichiushi 3/5 +2-LOW [breaker: 1] [unique]
2x The Blue Dragon 3/4 +2-LOW [unique]

Attacks: 14

3x Lunar Slash 6/1 +1-MID [Multiple: 2]
3x Gama Jigoku 5/2 [stun: 2]
4x Moon Glow 4/3 +1-LOW
4x Chikemuri Kuruwa 4/3 +2-MID

Foundations: 39

2x An Efficient Method to Slay People 3/4
4x Blood Runs True 2/5 +1-HIGH
4x Familial Loyalty 2/5 +2-MID
3x A Samurai’s Life 2/5
3x Soichi Jinmu 2/5 - 5/5
3x Distractible 2/5
3x Exist Within 2/5 - 4/5
3x Kabuki Artist 2/4
4x Weapons are Unnecessary 1/5 +1-HIGH
3x Personal Style 1/5 +2-MID
4x Aquakinesis 1/5 +3-HIGH
3x Dancing Battle Kabuki 0/4 +1-LOW [breaker: 2]

Samurai Showdown is one of my favorite licenses UFS has, and it has never had its standalone set. Using only Samurai Showdown cards, I feel you have a limited enough card pool so that not too terribly much is broken.

As you can tell, my deck capitalizes on all of Sogetsu's strengths, both his draw and discard (and as there is truly no anti-discard in the format, I can do so without fear). Using his ability with Exist Within allows me to choice snipe cards. Gama Jigoku is great because of its versatility. If their board is strong, I'll Stun them. If I need to draw or get momentum I'll let them pick their poison. Moon Glow and Chikemuri have "if these attacks deal damage" effects, so they're great block baiters.

I highly suggest people participate in such legacy formats. They're fun and help stimulate creativity while still utilizing the older cards. Tell me what you think of the deck and format idea!

[Tifer 0]

 Sogetsu is just stupid fun, regardless of whether he's played as legacy or not, ha ha. I played him for a while and had a blast with the crazy discard. 'Specially after Bitter Rivals got banned... xD

He still is one of my favorites, if not THE favorite.

[MarcoPulleaux 0]

Sogetsu is awesome, but my fav will always be Yoshitora, followed by Genjuro and Sankuro.

I considered running him for Worlds, but am definitely happy I went with D-Van.

Nevertheless, Sogetsu IS awesome, esp. when combined with his insane draw of Aqua, Familial, and TBTA.

[Tifer 0]

 Fatherly Love and Researching the Past work pretty well in him too. But that kinda messes up your thing with working with only one set.