TES Matchup Battles: Miracles

Matchup Battles

Miracles is one of legacy's premier control decks of the format and has been around ever since the "Miracle" keyword was printed in Avacyn Restored. It is a UW deck that often splashes black or red for utility cards. Over the past year and a half since, Sensei's Divining Top got banned, Miracles has evolved Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Turbo Depths

Matchup Mulligan

4c Loam Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) » Keep or Mulligan? Keep I'm a little shocked by the number of people that thought this hand was a mulligan. Burning Wish represents both an answer to Chalice of the Void (assuming you draw another Mountain or fetchland) as well as an answer to Thalia, Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Death & Taxes with Phillip Gallagher

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Phillip Gallagher (@MangaraLock): Phil Gallagher is a Death & Taxes (D&T) specialist, though he’s expanded his range quite a bit since he started streaming last year. He’s had a number of good finishes with D&T, including 59th at GP:Richmond and 48th at GP: Louisville. He enjoys making Legacy content, and Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Dredge (Mana) with Patrick Schuster

Through the Looking Glass

Special thanks to Patrick Schuster for his contributions to today's article. Since the metagame has settled after the bannings of Deathrite Shaman and Gitaxian Probe, graveyard decks such as Dredge have started to become very strong in the Legacy metagame. A lot of this has to do with the newly found lack of mainboard graveyard Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: Landstill

Matchup Battles

UX Landstill has been one of the older decks of the Legacy format. Being around for nearly two decades, older than many players, but has been getting less popular over the past several years. Landstill is a blue-based control deck that gets its name from the combination of Standstill and manlands. This "combo" in play Read More »

TES 2018 — Deck Showcase

TES 2018 Deck Showcase

Main Deck: Dividers: Sideboard: Changes since 2017 No Gitaxian Probe! — ...or Cabal Therapy. Thoughtseize was added! New Empty the Warrens signature — thicker marker, large, centered. New Rite of Flame signature — thicker marker, large, centered. Hello Word! Meet Hope of Ghirapur. — It's actually insanely good. Playing all four Chrome Mox. All signed fetchlands! — Scalding Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: 4c Loam

Matchup Mulligan

Dredge Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) » Keep or Mulligan? Keep This isn't a fast hand, which is an issue. That said, you're on the play with a discard spell on the first turn which should buy you a little bit of time. What's interesting with this hand to me is that it Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: BR Reanimator with Eric Landon

Through the Looking Glass

Special thanks to Eric Landon for his contributions to today's article. BR Reanimator is not only one of the most popular fast combo decks in today's metagame, but it is also known as one of the worst matchups for The EPIC Storm. For this month's edition of Through the Looking Glass, we brought on BR Read More »