Matchup Mulligan: Lands

Matchup Mulligan

Before we get started with Lands, here's the answer from last month's Sneak & Show article: Sneak & Show Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan This hand was even tough for me to decide, I want to keep it but ultimately it's a mulligan. Leyline of Sanctity is very Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Sneak & Show

Matchup Mulligan

Before we get started with Sneak & Show, here's the answer from last month's Grixis Delver article: Grixis Delver Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) » Keep or Mulligan? Keep You have roughly a 64% chance of hitting what you need off of Gitaxian Probe. These cards are: 4 Duress, 4 Cabal Therapy, 4 Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Grixis Delver

Matchup Mulligan

Hey! We're back with another Matchup Mulligan! This series goes over 10 opening hands, 5 pre-board and 5 post-board opening hands. The hands are not random, they've been sculpted by me for the purpose of these exercises. Pre-board Hand 1: (on the draw) » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan This hand has a few things wrong Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: Lands

Matchup Battles

It is time for yet another edition of the TES Matchup Battles series and this episode we take on Lands! Jarvis Yu, one of the most well known Lands players, best describes Lands as a Life from the Loam deck. "With the ability to both recur lands and 'draw' three cards a turn by dredging, Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Death & Taxes

Matchup Mulligan

Something I've been working on in recent months is cracking down on myself about mulligans. In the past, I've been very lazy and unwilling or even afraid to go down to six or five. But the truth of the matter is aggressive mulliganing in certain matchups will result in more game wins than playing with Read More »

Sideboard Musings: Contextualizing Card Values

Contextualizing the Sideboard Today we are talking about the sideboard. We aren’t going to rehash specific matchup analysis which is covered extensively elsewhere on this site: Bryant’s sideboard guide and AJ’s matchup analysis. Instead we are going to take a high level look at how and why the value of specific cards in our deck changes Read More »