With Modern Horizons 3, Wizards of the Coast set out to revitalize combo in Modern. When people talk about the heyday of Modern in 2017-2018, Izzet Gifts Storm was the premier spell-based combo deck. Since then, the printings of Force of Negation and other interactive spells have pushed it out ...
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Final Selesnya Depths Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Boseiju, Who Endures Lion’s Eye Diamond Lotus Petal Mox Opal Misty Rainforest Commercial District Lotus Petal Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand offers a strong combination of mana sources and potential plays. With double Lotus ...
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Good Grief! Legacy is in an interesting (and potentially unfortunate) spot right now. With a “no changes” format update in the most recent Banned & Restricted announcement, many Magic: The Gathering players are crying out against a “Lame Duck” format. The purported ...
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Necrodominance Necrodominance Necrodominance Legendary Enchantment Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards. Your maximum hand size is five. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it ...
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Final Black Saga Storm Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Lion’s Eye Diamond Lion’s Eye Diamond Lion’s Eye Diamond Chrome Mox Brainstorm Ponder Veil of Summer Keep or Mulligan? Keep The plan involves going all in. First, play Chrome Mox and imprint Brainstorm. Then, play ...
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Special Guest Dan Neeley (Twitter: danneeley1 | MTGO: DNEELEY) Dan Neeley is a Legacy player known for playing Selesnya Depths, Maverick, and four-color Loam. Dan has a Star City Games Legacy Open Top 8, multiple MTGO Challenge Wins, and other smaller achievements. Dan is a father of three ...
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Goodness gracious. Is The EPIC Storm (TES) a Control deck now? Let’s discuss. Two major things have happened in the last month of Legacy. First, TES started playing a full set of Force of Will. The second is all cards that introduce stickers or Attractions to the game are banned. ...
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Traditionally in Legacy, any playable combo deck must be able to beat a Force of Will. Some combo decks play Force of Will like Sneak & Show and Doomsday. Storm decks of the past have avoided playing the best counter spell in Magic for a few reasons. Lion’s Eye Diamond and Infernal ...
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Final Dimir ReScaminator Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Echo of Eons Lotus Petal Mox Opal Echo of Eons Lion’s Eye Diamond Volcanic Island Galvanic Relay Keep or Mulligan? Keep I can’t imagine sending this hand back! There’s the fear of Grief discarding Lion’s Eye ...
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Special Guest Michael Reed (Twitter: Eureka22422 | Spotify: Legacy Small Talk | MTGO: Eureka22422) I’m Michael Reed from Saint Louis. I almost exclusively play Legacy, which I started playing around 2010. Originally picking up Merfolk as a budget-friendly deck, I have mostly played Dark ...
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The EPIC Storm puts two pilots into a Challenge Top 8! What a fantastic headline, right? There is a lot to unpack with that title though. Let’s start basic. Daybreak Games, the company that manages the MTGO client, added several evening Challenge events (using US-based time zones) for the ...
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This is part of an approximately quarterly tier list article series. Methodology Everyone builds a tier list differently. I built mine based on Magic: The Gathering™ Online (MTGO) Challenge results (As collected by Joe Dyer and the Legacy Data Collection Discord). A data-driven approach ...
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