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The artifact acceleration is definitely worth it.  It's great if you can get Olivia into play on turn three instead of turn four or five, and artifact mana is the only way that you're going to do that in black/red.  I checked through my Commander decks, and I'm usually running 6-8 ramp cards (mana dorks, artifact mana, Cultivate, etc.) in each deck.  It's enough that it generally helps hit your 6+ drops more quickly, but not so much that you're always drawing lots of mana acceleration in the late game.  Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse have their place, but if you play one as your land on turn four, you're not casting Olivia until turn five.

The problem with saying that you're building a Legacy deck is that people expect a competitive, focused deck.  If you wanted to build a casual deck, it would be better to label it as casual instead of Legacy.

For reference, the deck that you're closest too with the current build is called Elves and you can find one build here:

http://deckbox.org/sets/298334

You can find some discussion of the deck here:

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/27 … rt-1-.html

Even if you don't adopt some of the combos and strategies, you could borrow some ideas, such as using Craterhoof Behemoth and Natural Order.

If you're curious about 12 Post (aka Turbo Eldrazi), here is a deck list:

http://deckbox.org/sets/241273

and here's an article that talks about the deck, though not very thoroughly:

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/28 … egacy.html

I don't recommend picking up Turbo Eldrazi as one of your first Legacy decks.  It's a complicated deck to play properly.

I would add Mayor of Avabruck, Moonmist, and maybe Huntmaster of the Fells.  The Huntmaster doesn't work great with Immerwolf, but otherwise fits the theme well.  I'd also add at least one Hunter's Insight to fit the wolf theme.

To make room I think that I would make cuts from Khalni Heart Expedition, Growing Ranks, 1 Howl of the Nightpack, Parallel Evolution, and Druid's Deliverance.

Are you gearing this toward multiplayer?  You seem to be aiming much more toward the long game than I would expect from a wolf deck.

The deck won't win any tournaments, but it'll be fun to play and fine against casual decks.  It's perfect for someone new to the game.

I think that in playing this deck you are already 'all in'.  If you don't get the Quest or Erayo plus Canonist then you are just left with a pile that can't do much.  At least with Signal Pest you can still reliably attack with evasion creatures.  I'm also not sure that the payoff of getting the Quest into play and getting an equipment is worth the contortions that you have to put the deck through.

If you want to go the Quest route then consider adding Idyllic Tutor.  You'll also need more mana as you'll need three mana on turn three if you want to trigger the quest.  Without Mox Opal or Springleaf Drum you're going to have a hard time doing that with only 18 lands.  I would at least consider adding the Springleaf Drums back in.

Just to follow up in case anyone is playing a similar deck, I played this deck today at Game Day.  The deck felt great all day, and I ended up undefeated.  After sideboarding it was great to have 4 Dreadbores and 4 Abrupt Decays in certain matchups.  I was expecting to side in the Gruul Charms against mono-black, but the Dreadbores and Abrupt Decays were good enough on their own.  I didn't have any mana problems as I would either have OK mana from my lands or I would have a Caryatid or two on board.  The extra temples were great to aid Courser in hitting my land drops.

Expanding on my post above, now that I have more time, here is an example of how I would like to structure my collection with tags:

Inventory (top level -- set default options to private and not available for building decks)
|-Collection (uses default options set at top level of inventory)
  |-Sets
  |-Promos
  |-Precons
|-Cube (uses default options set at top level of inventory)
|-Decks (uses default options set at top level of inventory)
  |-EDH
    |-Mayael
    |-Sedris
    |-Trostani
  |-Standard
    |-BW Enchantments
    |-UGw Control
  |-Legacy
    |-Turbo Eldrazi
    |-Delver
  |-Modern
    |-BW Liliana
    |-RDW
  |-Casual
    |-Wolves
  |-World Champs
  |-Vanguard (override default to set to public)
  |-Planechase (override default to set to public)
|-Deckbuilding (override default to make available for building decks)
  |-EDH
  |-Standard
  |-Eternal
|-Trade Binders (override default to make public and available for building decks)
  |-Foils
  |-Standard
  |-Eternal
|-Misc. (override default to make public and available for building decks)

After writing out all of this, I've realized a few things:

1. I would really like to tag my wishlist so that I know whether I am looking for a particular card for my Cube section, for a particular deck, or for my Deckbuilding section.

2.  This setup would let me set the various inventory subsections so that a card in a deck or in my Collection section is not available for building other decks.  If I was OK with shifting cards between decks then I could set my Decks section (or even specific decks) so that cards listed there are available for building decks.  Then I would know whether I need to trade for more copies of a card.

3.  Ideally I would also be able to have a single card present with multiple top level tags within my inventory.  Say that The Abyss is tagged with both Collection and Cube, this would let me know that I'm am borrowing a card from my Collection section to temporarily play in my cube.  Once I'm done with the card in my cube, I would know which section to return it to.

4.  Similarly, by selecting the proper tag (say Decks -> EDH -> Mayael), I would get a listing of all matching cards and be able to remove that particular tag.  That would remove the full path of the tag (Decks -> EDH -> Mayael), but would leave any other tags on the cards.  I could then refile those cards based on any tags still present (so it would be great to see this list of cards again, grouped by the remaining tags).

5.  In addition to being able to search for specific tags, I would like to be able to search for cards with no tag set.  I'm sure that some cards would slip through with no tag set, or removing a specific deck tag from a card might leave no tags left.  I'd also like to be able to search for multiple tags, such as 'Collection->Sets' combined with 'Decks', to see where I'm borrowing cards.

Based on the information in your initial post here, I think that your proposal would largely let me do what I want to do.  If you are able to add the 'available for decks' options to cards, and that you're able to nest tags, then I think your proposal covers 98% of what I would like.

Price issues should go in this thread:

http://deckbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19406

Did you see the recent article on SCG about BUG Devotion:

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/28 … otion.html

It may have some good ideas for you.