I have been playing The EPIC Storm (TES) on and off for a couple of years now. I really started doubling down on the deck at the beginning of 2025. Playing this list means a lot to me because a very close friend first introduced me to it. In total, I went 6-1 in the...
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I’ve been playing Storm for a couple of years now. The EPIC Storm (TES) is the deck I had the most experience with, and I did not feel comfortable playing Black Saga Storm, so I went with TES. In total, I went 6-3 in the Legacy RCQ for Top 64 and 11-2-1 in the main...
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On August 26th, 2024, Wizards of the Coast banned Grief out of Legacy. This was fairly expected and was the last major change that Legacy would receive going into North America Eternal Weekend. This gave about three months of testing for everyone attending that tournament. Removing Grief from ...
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Eternal Weekend. This is often the pinnacle of participation for eternal format Magic players. The events certainly have a allure to them, drawing in players from across the globe to compete more vehemently than even competitors in the Magic Pro League. I have participated in a handful of these ...
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My name is Aryaman Tummalapalli, and though I was born in India, I never really lived there, growing up mostly in Singapore, with stints in DC and Tokyo. I went to college in New York City, and I’m now a software engineer living in San Francisco. I have been playing Magic for almost six ...
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In the weeks leading up to The Legacy Pit Open, I have been “heating-up” so-to-speak after a prolonged slump. With the addition of some powerful white cards to The EPIC Storm (TES), which you can read about below, I was feeling very confident heading into this weekend. I traveled ...
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A lot like the Leaving A Legacy Open V, the From the Vault Games crew decided to leave Syracuse, N.Y. at 4:30 a.m. in order to get to Acton, Mass. in time for the main event. The six of us that were sponsored by our favorite local game store knew it was going to be...
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On my way home from the second Leaving A Legacy open, I calculated how much I spent on gas and tolls driving back to Syracuse, NY from Boston, MA — it was roughly $120 (three full tanks). On top of that, I spent 10 hours driving in one weekend and unfortunately got a speeding ticket...
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…and to think on Wednesday afternoon I was telling Jerry Mee (host of Leaving A Legacy) I wasn’t sure If I wanted to go. I had just checked how long it would take me to get to Acton, MA from Syracuse, NY. In the northeast there’s really only two seasons – winter & ...
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Deck List Main Deck 4 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 Goblin Electromancer 4 Pyretic Ritual 4 Desperate Ritual 4 Manamorphose 4 Serum Visions 4 Sleight of Hand 3 Opt 3 Remand 1 Repeal 4 Gifts Ungiven 2 Past in Flames 2 Grapeshot 1 Empty the Warrens 1 Noxious Revival 4 Scalding Tarn 1 Polluted Delta...
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In the last month or so, I took a hard look at data from my spreadsheet and came to the conclusion that the reason I wasn’t spiking any events is that I needed to be better than 50% against Grixis Delver. When talking to AJ Kerrigan, he had a lot of success when returning to...
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Warning: I didn’t realize I would be writing a tournament report until the very later rounds of the tournament, so I didn’t keep detailed notes in my earlier matches, and as you can imagine after playing 11 rounds in a day my memory was beginning to get fuzzy about the beginning rounds. ...
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