Legacy Fish deck

Fish is a simple Legacy variant of the known Fish concept, combining small blue creatures with counterspells. It therefore falls into the Aggro-control deck category.

The deck usually plays a varied amount of Merfolk creatures with multiple Lords such as Lord of Atlantis and Merrow Reejerey. It uses Aether Vial to play more of these Merfolk while keeping mana open to counter spells the opponent plays, play additional creatures or additional supporting cards. Aether Vial also enables the player to put threats on the board without triggering Standstill, a card the deck plays to gain card advantage when the opponent is forced to play a card or being downed by creatures. The counterspells of Daze and Force of Will are used to prevent the opponents plays while being tapped out. Other supporting spells like Echoing Truth and Umezawa's Jitte are also used.

Some variations splash into other colors for cards such as Tarmogoyf</c>.

<d title="Fish - Kevin Ambler - StarCityGames Legacy Open January 2010"> Creatures 4 Cursecatcher 4 Silvergill Adept 4 Tarmogoyf 4 Lord of Atlantis 4 Merrow Reejerey 2 Merfolk Sovereign

Spells 4 Aether Vial 4 Daze 4 Force of Will 4 Standstill 2 Umezawa's Jitte

Lands 3 Tropical Island 4 Mutavault 4 Wasteland 4 Polluted Delta 1 Flooded Strand 1 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard 2 Hydroblast Blast 2 Tormod's Crypt 3 Divert 3 Ravenous Trap 3 Spell Pierce 2 Submerge</d> <d title="Fish - Kristoffer H Nelson - Grand Prix Madrid 2010"> Creatures 4 Cursecatcher 4 Lord of Atlantis 4 Merrow Reejerey 4 Silvergill Adept 4 Spellstutter Sprite 1 Vendilion Clique

Spells 4 Aether Vial 3 Daze 2 Echoing Truth 4 Force of Will 4 Standstill 2 Umezawa's Jitte

Lands 11 Island 4 Mutavault 2 Riptide Laboratory 3 Wasteland

Sideboard 2 Blue Elemental Blast 2 Divert 2 Mind Harness 3 Relic of Progenitus 2 Spell Pierce 4 Submerge</d>