Final 8-Cast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Dark Ritual Lotus Petal Mox Opal Lion’s Eye Diamond Rite of Flame Burning Wish Taiga Keep or Mulligan? Keep A common play-pattern as 8-Cast against The EPIC Storm is to play Chalice of the Void with one counter. The hand above is capable ...
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Final Rakdos Reanimator Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Burning Wish Lion’s Eye Diamond Lion’s Eye Diamond Volcanic Island Veil of Summer Ad Nauseam Thoughtseize Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan What does this hand do? You’re not even remotely close to casting Ad Nauseam, you ...
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FRODO: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. GANDALF: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. The Lord of...
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Last year, I set out to write a comprehensive primer for The EPIC Storm (TES). I could not have anticipated how much the deck would change after just one set release. Beseech the Mirror obsoleted the primary engine of the deck and added several more, almost transforming TES entirely. Check out ...
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It is time for yet another edition of the TES Matchup Battles series and this episode we take on Moon Stompy! Moon Stompy is a prison aggro deck. It uses different lock pieces to disrupt the opponent’s mana and making it more difficult to cast their spells. Moon Stompy then follows up ...
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Special Guest A few words on Aldrich Saplan (Twitter: @Dopedafi | MTGO: Dopedafi | Instagram: drizz_707) Aldrich Saplan is a longtime MTG competitor from the Bay Area in California where he grew up and has lived his whole life. He’s been playing since Ice Age and loves to play aggressive tempo ...
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Goblins is a deck that has been around since the earliest days of Magic’s history. It has always played a role in older formats ranging from fringe playable to being the best deck in Legacy. Goblins is a tribal deck that focuses on using goblin creatures that can play lots of different ...
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BUG Ninjas is a fairly new deck that takes advantage the Ninjutsu ability, using Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow and Ingenious Infiltrator. This allows the deck to draw multiple cards a turn to overwhelm the opponent in card advantage. In order to do this as early as possible, they play cards ...
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Maverick is a green-white-based creature deck. The creatures are used to be disruptive, aggressive, and to combat the opponent’s strategy. Maverick plays many different creatures, so it plays four copies of Green Sun’s Zenith to help find the appropriate creature for any given ...
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Death & Taxes looks like a white weenie deck to the casual observer. In reality, Death & Taxes is a creature-based control deck that focuses on disrupting the opposing deck. Their goal is to play creature spells that delay the opponent just long enough to try and win the game by ...
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BR Reanimator is an accurate name to describe this deck. It’s a red and black deck that’s trying to put a Griselbrand and other expensive creatures into play from the graveyard. It does this by using cards like Faithless Looting, Entomb, Reanimate, and Exhume. By using cheap spells ...
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What is The EPIC Ruby Storm? Ruby Medallion Birgi, God of Storytelling Echo of Eons The EPIC Ruby Storm is a variant of Ruby Storm that has borrowed some of the most powerful components from The EPIC Storm and plugged them into Ruby Storm: Lion’s Eye Diamond, Echo of Eons, Peer into the ...
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