In Legacy, Blue is the undisupted best color in the format. The overwhelming majority of aggressive, combo, and control decks play Blue cards, relying on cantrips to let you play fewer lands and find key cards. Even the midrange decks frequently touch on Blue. That’s part of why it’s always so exciting to see decks performing well that don’t rely on Blue cards. In particular, this midrange deck is a flashback to a time when Vindicate was a commonly played card in Legacy:

White-Black Midrange - Legacy | Andoneko, 5-0 Legacy League

• Creatures (12)
• 4 Dark Confidant
• 4 Deathrite Shaman
• 4 Stoneforge Mystic

• Planeswalkers (5)
• 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 4 Liliana of the Veil

• Instants (4)
• 4 Swords to Plowshares

• Sorceries (14)
• 1 Council's Judgment
• 1 Vindicate
• 4 Hymn to Tourach
• 4 Lingering Souls
• 4 Thoughtseize

• Artifacts (2)
• 1 Batterskull
• 1 Umezawa's Jitte

• Lands (23)
• 1 Plains
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Karakas
• 1 Shambling Vent
• 2 Windswept Heath
• 3 Scrubland
• 4 Marsh Flats
• 4 Verdant Catacombs
• 4 Wasteland

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Disenchant
• 2 Duress
• 1 Engineered Plague
• 2 Ethersworn Canonist
• 2 Fatal Push
• 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 4 Leyline of the Void
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 1 Zealous Persecution

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Your goal is to use your discard to prevent opponents from leveraging their combotastic or card advantage-based gameplans while your spot removal prevents them from pulling ahead on the board. Then you can utilize Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Dark Confidant, or Stoneforge Mystic to stay ahead on resources. With Deathrite Shaman to help you ramp out your interactive elements and keep opponents from utilizing the graveyard to pull ahead of you, you can frequently keep yourself one step ahead of your opponents who aren’t applying fast pressure.

If you’re looking for a non-Blue midrange deck with the efficiency of interaction and card advantage necessary to take on the rest of the format, this seems like a very reasonable choice. You’ve got plenty of options if you’re looking to customize your deck to match your metagame. Cards like Cabal Therapy and Inquisition of Kozilek are completely reasonable, as are Bitterblossom and other White and Black Planeswalkers. There’s a lot to explore here, and different flavors of midrange are always a good thing for a format.