You're explanation cross what i understant now by playing a lot last evenning. Driad is better because we can pump up it by step on more than one turn. I try it and i approve it. Kiln fiend is really strong to ! it offer a lot of big kill.
For my test i change -4 storm entity + 4 dryad -Reckless Charge +Tropical island
So what quickly happened :

- Against MUD, this was a really butcher party. I win all games. No problem. Ancient grudge is awesome, and hurkyll open the road for the win easily.

- Against TPS, it is the race. Our advantage is the counterspell we have compare to TPS. But the MU stay tight and post side we must be the control deck because we have more drawers and disrupts.

- Against drain tendrils, it's harder because of jace and because it has the same number of disrupt.  We have quickness for us. In this MU we must be the aggro deck and we need bolt against jace.

- Against Noble fish, the difficulty is swords and wasteland. we must have backup before drop a creature. Fastbond is harder to play because of qasaly and trygon. Post side, it's better by dealing sword by vines of vastwood and by playing bolt. Vines is very strong in the MU. The Kick offers a big pump for fiend or dryad before berserk(or in response !).

I don't try against Dreadge, or other deck like painter, magus of the moon, gob, elfball... Not enough time.
I'd like to add Yawgwin in the deck. I'll try some tests more this evening.

For my part, i try a different version using more red cards against MUD environment. I don't play Grow-A-Tog but Grow-A-Fiend :

60 Total cards   
14   lands
3   Scalding tarn
3   Misty rainforest
1   Poluted delta
3   Volcanic Island
1   Island
1   Underground sea
2   Tropical island
   
8   creatures
4   Kiln Fiend
4   Storm Entity
   
28   instant
3   Spell pierce
2   Daze
4   Force of will
1   Brainstorm
4   preordain
4   Gush
1   Mystical tutor
1   Vampiric tutor
1   Hurkyl's recall
1   Ancestral recall
2   ancient grudge
3   Berserk
1   Reckless Charge
   
4   Sorcery
1   Demonic tutor
1   Time walk
1   Ponder
1   Merchant scroll
   
5   artifacts
1   Black lotus
1   Mox jet
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox emerald
1   Mox ruby
   
1   enchantments
1   Fastbond
   
15   Sideboard
4   Ravenous Trap
1   Perish
1   rebuild
1   Ancient grudge
1   Nature's claim
2   Greater gargadon
1   Sadistic sacrement
1   Red elemental blast
1   pyroblast
2   Lightning bolt


The idea is to play contrôle until to have kiln fiend or gush/fastbond (or tutor), then we can go for the win into a one strong attack with berserk. Ancient grudge and counter spells offer a good MU against MUD, and is synergic with kiln fiend.
Storm entity is an idea i test because, we can go into a gush draw engine without creature. But maybe driad is better. i need to check.
What is your opinion ?

Hello,

I'm an old french magic player. I beggin to play thirteen years ago with fallen empire. My first deck is a weenie black and my brother a weenie white. But his f...ing wrath of god kill me too many time... So i change my deck optical with a BU discard. I had got so few money, so i took a little break. With fortress, My discard deck became better and better. But again because of money, I had stopped in 1998 with exodus.

During a long time, my cards slept into their cards collector books. My brother, in the same time creat a vintage deck that i couldn't win... And, Magic has been developped on the net. I have discovered it last summer in 2006. With all my old cards i'm going into the legacy format. and I beggin to deal cards by postmail.
Now i have a good collection of cards and I'm trainning to play lot of deck, in particularly Combo decks and combo-control decks.
If i go here, it's to have another point of view than the french one. I hope you will help me (as i hope help you if i have some idea) and i hope you will be understanding with my grammar mistakes  .

See you soon.

Choobak

Hello !

I am french and i decide to go here to have new opinions on legacy decks from overseas. But there is a little problem : i cannot creat a new thread in Legacy development or format discussion. And i don't know why, but i can creat a new topic on Legacy decks : proven or here. I have read all the topic about rules and i don't sea something about that. (Maybe my english comprehension is not so good, it is possible)
Can you explain me, please