Legacy Painter deck

UPDATED MARCH/2022
Painter is a Legacy deck based around combining the effect of <c>Painter's Servant</c> with <c>Grindstone</c>.
==Overview==
Painter is an artifact-based combo strategy that wins from milling the opponent out of the game in one go.
As mentioned previously, the deck will assemble <c>Painter's Servant</c> and <c>Grindstone</c> in order to win.
The effect from <c>Painter's Servant</c> makes it so that <c>Grindstone</c> mills the entire deck of the opponent.
The deck can be found in a somewhat wide variety of combinations of the colors White, Red and Blue.
It is a fairly consistent strategy that can be enabled by tutors from many colors. And all tend to benefit from <c>Urza's Saga</c>.
Graveyard recursion is also found in many versions due to how efficient the strategy is with Legacy's card pool.
==Contemporary Decklists==
The following are some of the possible color combinations in which the Painter strategy is possible.
===Mono-Red Painter===
Mono-Red Painter benefits from the tutoring ability of <c>Goblin Engineer</c> and the Graveyard recursion found also not only in <c>Goblin Engineer</c>, but in <c>Goblin Welder</c> as well.
The deck also benefits from <c>Imperial Recruiter</c>. This allows for the player to find <c>Painter's Servant</c> or <c>Grindstone</c> indirectly (by going for <c>Goblin Engineer</c> first).
Being a Red deck, <c>Blood Moon</c> is a nice choice for Side board options.
<deck title="6th Place: Painter - John Kraska - ChannelFireball Game Center - 06/02/22">
Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
4 Great Furnace
8 Mountain
3 Urza's Saga
Creatures
1 Breya's Apprentice
4 Goblin Engineer
4 Goblin Welder
2 Imperial Recruiter
1 Magus of the Moon
4 Painter's Servant
2 Simian Spirit Guide
Instants and Sorceries
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
Other Spells
1 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Grindstone
2 Karn, the Great Creator
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
3 Lotus Petal
1 Trinisphere
Sideboard
2 Abrade
2 Blood Moon
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Grindstone
1 Karn, the Great Creator
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyrokinesis
4 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Torpor Orb
</deck>
===Mono-White Painter===
The Mono-White version may have access to <c>Enlightened Tutor</c>, but it can also work with the tutoring ability of <c>Oswald Fiddlebender</c>.
The deck has a myriad of utility creatures: <c>Hex Parasite</c>, <c>Esper Sentinel</c>, <c>Ethersworn Canonist</c>, <c>Ingenious Smith</c>.
Since the primary color is white, it can benefit from a powerful Graveyard hate card: <c>Rest in Peace</c>.
<deck title="1st Place: White Painter - Frederik de Keyzer - Demo-Spel (Leuven, Belgium) - 04/02/22">
Lands
3 Ancient Den
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Karakas
8 Plains
4 Urza's Saga
3 Wasteland
Creatures
4 Esper Sentinel
3 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Hex Parasite
1 Hope of Ghirapur
4 Ingenious Smith
3 Mother of Runes
4 Oswald Fiddlebender
4 Painter's Servant
1 Phyrexian Revoker
Other Spells
1 Aether Vial
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Grindstone
2 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Opal
1 Pithing Needle
1 Portable Hole
1 Retrofitter Foundry
1 Smuggler's Copter
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
Sideboard
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Meekstone
1 Ratchet Bomb
2 Rest in Peace
1 Shadowspear
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Torpor Orb
</deck>
===Boros Painter===
The Boros version inherits a bit of both previous versions.
It has the tutoring of <c>Enlightened Tutor</c>, <c>Imperial Recruiter</c> and <c>Goblin Engineer</c>. And it benefits from Graveyard recursion from <c>Goblin Engineer</c> and <c>Goblin Welder</c>.
<deck title="7th Place: Boros Painter - Killian Cooley - Cornelius (North Carolina) - 19/02/22">
Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Arid Mesa
2 City of Traitors
1 Great Furnace
4 Mountain
2 Plateau
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Urza's Saga
1 Wooded Foothills
Creatures
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Goblin Cratermaker
3 Goblin Engineer
3 Goblin Welder
3 Imperial Recruiter
4 Painter's Servant
1 Simian Spirit Guide
Instants and Sorceries
2 Enlightened Tutor
3 Lightning Bolt
4 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
Other Spells
1 Blood Moon
1 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Grindstone
2 Karn, the Great Creator
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
2 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Opal
1 Smuggler's Copter
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
Sideboard
1 Breya's Apprentice
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Grindstone
1 Karn, the Great Creator
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Liquimetal Coating
1 Pithing Needle
1 Portable Hole
1 Pyrokinesis
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt
</deck>
===Blue Painter===
The Blue version contrasts some more with the previous versions, but still uses the same combo to win. However, it has access to <c>Force of Will</c> for defense.
The deck also benefits from <c>Emry, Lurker of the Loch</c> and <c>Urza, High Artificer</c>.
The deck also has access to more card draw with <c>Thought Monitor</c> and <c>Preordain</c>.
<deck title="8th Place: Urza Painter - Eduardo Moura - Caverna do Dragão (Recife, Brazil) - 30/01/22">
Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
2 Flooded Strand
4 Island
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Urza's Saga
Creatures
3 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
4 Painter's Servant
3 Thought Monitor
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer
Instants and Sorceries
4 Force of Will
4 Preordain
Other Spells
4 Grindstone
2 Karn, Scion of Urza
3 Lotus Petal
4 Mox Opal
1 Retrofitter Foundry
1 Shadowspear
1 Soul-Guide Lantern
3 Urza's Bauble
Sideboard
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Flusterstorm
2 Force of Negation
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Hydroblast
1 Pithing Needle
2 Resculpt
1 Surgical Extraction
1 The Antiquities War
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Walking Ballista
</deck>
==Notes on Painter==
As seen, Painter has a wide variety of color combinations for players to choose from. And it is also one of the decks in which Reserved List cards are not mandatory.
And the need for Reserved List cards in the list is not mandatory. This makes it more interesting for new players because the competitive play styles are available in a wider range of options for the player to choose from.
Painter is a somewhat unique strategy when it comes to its color combinations. It isn't common to find a deck that has such a wide, contrasting variety of possible competitive decklists.
In the end it is totally up for the player to choose which color they want to build their Painter deck in.
==See also==
*Legacy
*Vintage
*Modern
*Combo
*Red
*White
*Blue
*Reserved List
*Revitalization of Legacy
Category:Tournament decks