Death and Taxes 
- Player
- Jon Goss
- Finish
- #1 of 41, 6-1
- Event
- The Legacy $5K,
- Archetype
- Death and Taxes
- Format
- Legacy
- MTGO price
- 353.45 TIX (GoatBots, 3 Nov)
- Paper price
- €1836.40 / $3002.38 (non-foil: the prints chosen, otherwise the cheapest, 3 Nov 2026)
- Source
- Melee.gg
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Main deck (80)
Creatures (26)
Instants (12)
Sorceries (10)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (26)
Sideboard (15)
Main deck (80)
Creatures (26)
- 4 Baleful Strix
- 4 Cephalid Illusionist
- 3 Narcomoeba
- 3 Nomads en-Kor
- 4 Recruiter of the Guard
- 1 Skyclave Apparition
- 2 Snapcaster Mage
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
- 1 Thassa's Oracle
Instants (12)
Sorceries (10)
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Return
- 4 Ponder
- 4 Thoughtseize
Artifacts (6)
- 4 Aether Vial
- 1 Kaldra Compleat
- 1 Shuko
Lands (26)
- 4 Flooded Strand
- 1 Island
- 2 Karakas
- 4 Marsh Flats
- 4 Polluted Delta
- 1 Scrubland
- 3 Tundra
- 3 Underground Sea
- 4 Urza's Saga
Sideboard (15)
Compared with the average Death and Taxes list
Average of 48 decks in the last 30 days.
Main deck
More than usual
- +4 Baleful Strix (4 vs 0.0)
- +4 Polluted Delta (4 vs 0.0)
- +4 Ponder (4 vs 0.0)
- +4 Brainstorm (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Cephalid Illusionist (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Force of Will (4 vs 0.2)
- +4 Urza's Saga (4 vs 0.2)
- +3 Underground Sea (3 vs 0.0)
Fewer than usual
- -6 Plains (0 vs 5.5)
- -4 Solitude (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Wasteland (0 vs 3.8)
- -4 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd (0 vs 3.8)
- -3 Overlord of the Balemurk (0 vs 3.0)
- -3 White Orchid Phantom (0 vs 3.0)
- -3 Prismatic Vista (0 vs 2.9)
- -2 Witch Enchanter (0 vs 2.4)
Sideboard
More than usual
- +3 Force of Negation (3 vs 0.0)
- +2 Hullbreacher (2 vs 0.0)
- +2 Spell Pierce (2 vs 0.0)
- +2 Teferi, Time Raveler (2 vs 0.0)
- +2 Prismatic Ending (2 vs 0.2)
- +1 Hydroblast (1 vs 0.0)
- +1 Snapcaster Mage (1 vs 0.0)
Fewer than usual
- -3 Wrath of the Skies (0 vs 2.7)
- -2 Disruptor Flute (0 vs 1.9)
- -2 Erode (0 vs 1.8)
- -2 Deafening Silence (0 vs 1.7)
- -1 Surgical Extraction (0 vs 1.1)
Most unusual list in this period: Lemure90 in Legacy League (5-0) (50 cards away from the average)
Combos in this deck
3 combos from Commander Spellbook with every card in this list, the most popular first.