Eternal Durdles

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Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EternalDurdlesTCGPLAYER AFFILIATE LINK:https://partner.tcgplayer.com/OexAAn🧠 Legacy Theory: Sideboard Packages, Power Outliers & How to Actually Build a 75Phil debuts a new framework he’s been developing for Legacy deckbuilding: Sideboard Packages — a way of organizing your 75 around axes of interaction rather than individual hate cards. If you’ve ever wondered why your sideboard feels too tight, why certain cards never come in, or why powerful decks “always have it,” this is the theory episode you’ve been waiting for.This one goes deep into Legacy fundamentals after the Entomb + Nadu bans, including how decks generate axes, how to attack them, and why some answers are fundamentally better than others in a world of Tamiyo, The One Ring, and Urza’s Saga.🔥 In This Episode:📌 What IS a Sideboard Package?How powerful decks generate multiple “axes” you must respectWhy single-target answers often fail in the current Legacy metaThe difference between beating cards vs beating plans⚔️ Legacy’s Modern Power OutliersTamiyo as a standalone axisThe One Ring and why it invalidates most reactive plansUrza’s Saga as a one-card endgameWhy these cards define post-ban Legacy even without Nadu/Entomb📚 Classic Examples (ANT, Doomsday, Breakfast)Old Ad Nauseam Tendrils: 3 axes (Ad Nauseam, Tutor Chain, Past in Flames)How Cephalid Breakfast still has 3–4 functional axes even post-NaduWhy multi-axis decks feel like they “always have it”🧩 Sideboard Cards That Cover MULTIPLE AxesEngineered Explosives vs Prismatic EndingWrath of the SkiesCelestial Purge vs Hydroblast (Blood Moon, Bowmaster, Kaito)Extract in low-Thassa’s Oracle metagamesChoosing cards with maximum crossover📋 Building Your 75How to evaluate whether a sideboard card actually gets brought inHow to avoid over-indexing on narrow bulletsShoring up your weak matchups without wasting slotsLearning to think in “packages” instead of “piles”💬 Community Question:Do YOU use sideboard packages?Or do you prefer playing stock lists and tuning card-by-card?Drop your philosophy in the comments — we want to hear it.🙏 Support Eternal DurdlesGet ad-free episodes, bonus content, and deck guides:👉 https://patreon.com/EternalDurdles#MTGLegacy #MagicTheGathering #LegacyMTG #Sideboarding #Deckbuilding #Tamiyo #TheOneRing #UrzaSaga #CephalidBreakfast #Doomsday #ANT #EternalDurdlesJOIN US ON DISCORD: https://discord.gg/hrC7PxQZTEProudly supported by Three For One Trading: shop.threeforonetrading.comCardmillhttps://cardmill.com/EternalDurdlesMOXFIELDEternal Durdles Moxfield: https://www.moxfield.com/users/EternalDurdleshttps://www.moxfield.com/users/Durdlemagushttps://www.moxfield.com/users/ForceofPhil

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