Through the Looking Glass: Lands with Jarvis Yu

Through the Looking Glass

Special thanks to Jarvis Yu for his contributions to today's article.  Lands is a legacy mainstay that has grown in popularity over the last few years. Until recently, Lands was always seen as a free win for The Epic Storm, but as Lands players have gained access to more powerful lands such as Thespian's Stage, Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: Eldrazi

Matchup Battles

Eldrazi is a fairly new deck thanks to the recent Eldrazi additions from Oath of the Gatewatch. The "Stompy" archetype itself has been around for a very long time and its plan is to use fast mana to accelerate out lock pieces, and then follow them up with a fast clock to pressure the opponent. Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Eldrazi

Matchup Mulligan

4c Pile Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) » Keep or Mulligan? Keep Correctly, most people determined this is a keep. However, I think it is't an immediate decision. What this hand needs is a "tutor effect", specifically Infernal Tutor since we're short on initial mana sources. Thankfully there's three looks with the scry Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: Turbo Depths

Matchup Battles

Turbo Depths is a combo deck that tries to generate a Marit Lage token (20/20 Flying Indestructible) by either removing all of the counters with Vampire Hexmage or by creating a copy of Dark Depths with counters using Thespian's Stage. They try to do this very quickly (hence the name "Turbo Depths"), but also trying Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Miracles with Anuraag Das and Sam Roukas

Through the Looking Glass

Special thanks to Anuraag Das and Sam Roukas for their contributions to this article.  Miracles, with and without Sensei's Divining Top, has been a natural predator of The Epic Storm for many years. Force of Will, Counterbalance, and Terminus combine to form a suite of cards that can be pretty difficult to beat at any Read More »