About two weeks ago, I was testing against Geoff Smelski (konsultant) and Geoff was just destroying me with Landstill. The issue wasn’t being over-loaded against too many counterspells or being outdrawn, it was that Ad Nauseam kept on failing. I knew I needed to make a change (see below). ...
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I decided to stay at college the night before needed to wake up at 7AM to begin the drive to Syracuse to meet up with The EPIC Syndicate. I get to Adam Barnello’s by 8:45AM and we’re off! We had decided to start a new tradition on the ride down. If someone in the car...
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Mystical Tutor was banned, but we had two weeks left to play it. This event was essentially a farewell to the card for me. I’ve received a number of messages about my plans for The EPIC Storm (TES) moving forward, some even thinking the deck is dead — it’s not. Mystical Tutor was a ...
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This tournament report really starts here where I began to qualify for the Jupiter Games Invitational event. After this I top 8’d Grand Prix Columbus but because of college I’ve barely been able to play and when I have been able to play, I’ve been cold. Luckily I graduated with ...
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For the last few large events I’ve gone to (mainly Star City Games events), I’ve been avoiding my classic Tendrils of Agony playmat for two reasons. The first reason being that it directly telegraphs what I’m playing for those who don’t know. Although, I’ll admit, ...
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The trip down was a little rough, having to leave Syracuse the night after my job’s holiday party by 7AM wasn’t ideal. Brian Finlayson-Schueler, Nick Patnode, and myself made decent time on the way down — Brian was nice enough to offer to drive. Honestly, if he didn’t I ...
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Final Mono-Green Cloudpost Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Taiga Polluted Delta Bloodstained Mire Bloodstained Mire Mox Opal Chrome Mox Ad Nauseam » Keep or Mulligan? Keep Think of how Mono-Green Cloudpost tries to attack The EPIC Storm, its generally with Pithing Needle, Force of Vigor, ...
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Final Death & Taxes Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Echo of Eons Lion’s Eye Diamond Burning Wish Chain of Vapor Abrupt Decay Mox Opal Wishclaw Talisman » Keep or Mulligan? Keep I’ve found that it’s fairly unlikely that your Death & Taxes opponent will have ...
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GW Depths focuses on trying to assemble Thespian’s Stage with Dark Depths to create an instant-speed Marit Lage Token. GW Depths uses cards like Crop Rotation, Elvish Reclaimer, and Knight of the Reliquary to assemble the combo and to find other disruptive lands like Wasteland and Bojuka ...
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Jeskai Ragavan is a midrange deck made up of counterspells, removal spells, and cheap creatures with the main one being Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. Ever since its printing, many decks have been trying to use Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, and the Jeskai shell seems to be doing it the best. Jeskai ...
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Lands gets its name from the entire deck being based around lands. Land tutors, assembling land combos, using lands to disrupt the opponent, ramping with lands, and even generating card advantage with lands from one of the more important cards, Life from the Loam. Ultimately, it wins by trying ...
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Final Lands Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Ponder Brainstorm Abrupt Decay Badlands Scalding Tarn Lotus Petal Rite of Flame » Keep or Mulligan? Keep One of the most crucial components to the Lands matchup is being able to answer Sphere of Resistance when on the draw, and this hand does ...
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