Lorehold Legacies Decklist & Guide: Osgir Precon

Overview

Lorehold Legacies is an artifact deck that rebuilds itself. Osgir, the Reconstructor has vigilance, and for {1} and a sacrificed artifact, target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn. For {X}, a tap, and an artifact card with mana value X exiled from your graveyard, he creates two token copies of the exiled card, but only as a sorcery. A graveyard full of artifacts becomes a source of extra bodies.

The 99 cards are 30 creatures, 1 planeswalker, 16 artifacts, 2 enchantments, 3 instants, 9 sorceries and 38 lands. Most of the creatures are artifact creatures, including six Golems, such as Bosh, Iron Golem, Bronze Guardian, Alibou, Ancient Witness and Solemn Simulacrum, and the artifacts include many with enter or leave effects, such as Ichor Wellspring, Mycosynth Wellspring and Archaeomancer's Map. The deck returns artifacts with Sanctum Gargoyle, Daretti, Scrap Savant, Wake the Past and Reconstruct History.

Key Cards

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Alibou, Ancient Witness

Haste · Damage

A 4/5 for {3}{R}{W}. Other artifact creatures you control have haste, and whenever one or more artifact creatures you control attack, it deals X damage to any target and you scry X, where X is the number of tapped artifacts you control. Attacking with artifacts becomes both damage and card selection.

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Bosh, Iron Golem

Finisher · Sacrifice Outlet

A 6/7 for {8}. It has trample, and for {3}{R} and a sacrificed artifact it deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target. It is an eight-mana Golem that turns the rest of your artifacts into burn.

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Feldon of the Third Path

Reanimation · Copy

A 2/3 for {1}{R}{R}. For {2}{R} and a tap, create a token that is a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types, and it gains haste and is sacrificed at the next end step. It makes a temporary copy of your best dead creature each turn.

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Wake the Past

Mass Reanimation

A sorcery for {5}{R}{W}. Return all artifact cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, and they gain haste until end of turn. It is a seven-mana way to turn a graveyard full of artifacts into a lethal attack.

Playing the Deck

The early game is about mana and cheap artifacts. Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Mind Stone, Boros Locket, Hedron Archive and Commander's Sphere ramp you, Steel Overseer, Pilgrim's Eye and Burnished Hart come down cheaply, and Pia Nalaar and Thopter Engineer make Thopters. Quicksmith Genius loots whenever an artifact enters.

The middle of the game is about getting value from artifacts. Digsite Engineer makes a Construct for each artifact spell, Audacious Reshapers sacrifices an artifact to find a bigger one, Losheel, Clockwork Scholar draws cards when artifact creatures enter, and Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer gives creatures +3/+0 with three or more artifacts. Scrap Trawler returns artifacts when it or another artifact is put into your graveyard.

The late game is about huge artifact threats. Steel Hellkite, Hellkite Igniter and Triplicate Titan are large flyers, Myr Battlesphere makes four Myr, Hellkite Tyrant steals artifacts and wins if you control twenty, and Meteor Golem and Duplicant remove threats. Cleansing Nova, Rout and Chain Reaction reset the board when you need to.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths: The deck has a lot of artifacts that replace themselves, a good mana base and many ways to bring artifacts back from the graveyard, so it recovers well from sweepers and removal. It also has useful interaction, including Rip Apart, Dispatch, Excavation Technique, Return to Dust and Dispeller's Capsule.

Weaknesses: Artifact removal and graveyard exile hurt a deck with this many artifacts, and several of its best cards, such as Bosh, Triplicate Titan and Wake the Past, cost seven or more mana. It has only a few ways to protect its creatures and relies on its sweepers and recursion to recover.

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Verdict

Lorehold Legacies is a big, forgiving artifact deck with lots of value and plenty of recursion. It is a good choice for players who like Golems and artifact synergies, and it improves a lot with better removal and mana.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What cards are in the Lorehold Legacies decklist?
The Lorehold Legacies precon is a 100-card Commander deck led by Osgir. The full Lorehold Legacies decklist, with every card, current prices and a button to copy the list into your deck builder, is on this page.

When was Lorehold Legacies released?
Lorehold Legacies was released on April 23, 2021 as part of Strixhaven Commander.

Who is the commander of Lorehold Legacies?
Lorehold Legacies is led by Osgir, the Reconstructor, a Boros (W/R) legendary creature.

How many creatures are in Lorehold Legacies?
The 99 cards besides Osgir, the Reconstructor include 30 creatures.

How many lands does Lorehold Legacies have?
Lorehold Legacies has 38 lands in the 99 cards besides Osgir, the Reconstructor, including basic lands.

Full Decklist

All 100 cards from the out-of-the-box Lorehold Legacies precon, with current prices. Click any card to expand it.

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Osgir, the Reconstructor (commander), Chain Reaction, Cleansing Nova, Excavation Technique, Faithless Looting, Reconstruct History, Rip Apart, Rout, Secret Rendezvous, Wake the Past, Ancient Den, Battlefield Forge, Boros Garrison, Command Tower, Darksteel Citadel, Exotic Orchard, Forgotten Cave, Great Furnace, Lorehold Campus, 12 Mountain, Myriad Landscape, Phyrexia's Core, 8 Plains, Rogue's Passage, Secluded Steppe, Slayers' Stronghold, Study Hall, Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion, Temple of Triumph, Temple of the False God, Boros Charm, Dispatch, Return to Dust, Arcane Signet, Archaeomancer's Map, Battlemage's Bracers, Boros Locket, Commander's Sphere, Cursed Mirror, Dispeller's Capsule, Hedron Archive, Ichor Wellspring, Key to the City, Mind Stone, Mycosynth Wellspring, Sculpting Steel, Sol Ring, Thousand-Year Elixir, Unstable Obelisk, Alibou, Ancient Witness, Angel of the Ruins, Audacious Reshapers, Bosh, Iron Golem, Bronze Guardian, Burnished Hart, Combustible Gearhulk, Digsite Engineer, Duplicant, Feldon of the Third Path, Hellkite Igniter, Hellkite Tyrant, Hoard-Smelter Dragon, Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer, Laelia, the Blade Reforged, Losheel, Clockwork Scholar, Meteor Golem, Myr Battlesphere, Pia Nalaar, Pilgrim's Eye, Quicksmith Genius, Ruin Grinder, Sanctum Gargoyle, Scrap Trawler, Solemn Simulacrum, Steel Hellkite, Steel Overseer, Sun Titan, Thopter Engineer, Triplicate Titan, Darksteel Mutation, Monologue Tax, Daretti, Scrap Savant.