As the Pioneer format has come into its own over the past couple years, one deck in particular has been at the top as the premier combo deck of the format. That deck is Lotus Field Combo. The main engine in the deck is to get a Lotus Field into play and then create a...
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Final The EPIC Storm Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Ad Nauseam Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Mox Opal Dark Ritual Silence Burning Wish Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan What does this hand actually do? That’s typically an initial step in determining whether a hand is a ...
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Special Guest A few words on Devin Reilly: (MTGO:xgrave) Devin Reilly is a NYC-metro area local who has been playing Magic in and around NYC since just before the release of Innistrad in 2011. Devin first began playing Legacy in 2014, and since then has been predominantly a Legacy player with ...
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The EPIC Storm is a Storm variant that has had a constant evolving decklist. The current form leans into Galvanic Relay while also being focused on artifacts and Wishclaw Talisman. Being a Galvanic Relay deck gives The EPIC Storm the ability to play through counterspells and have more payoff ...
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GRUUL STORM Even though it has been a few years since being at the top of the metagame, a Pyretic Ritual and Desperate Ritual-based Storm inModern is back and faster than ever in its new Gruul-based form! Instead of relying on the engine of Gifts Ungiven and Past in Flames to give us ...
Read More Final Doomsday Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Thoughtseize Burning Wish Wishclaw Talisman Orim’s Chant Scrubland Bloodstained Mire Lotus Petal Keep or Mulligan? Keep Speed isn’t everything! Players focus too much on this. The hand we’re presented with is resistant to a ...
Read More Special Guest A few words on Bryant Cook: (Twitter: @BryantACook | MTGO:Bryant_Cook) Bryant Cook has one Grand Prix Top 8 as well as nine Star City Games Top 8s (two wins). You can find Bryant’s daily sweet Storm videos for every format on our YouTube Channel, including some recent videos ...
Read More Doomsday is a rather simple deck in concept. Cast a Doomsday to make your library five cards and then win with a Thassa’s Oracle. The actual execution can vary by scenario. For example, how much mana do you have? How many cards can you draw? Can you afford to pass the turn? Questions like ...
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Interacting with The EPIC Storm does not always happen directly on the stack. Often opponents will bring lock pieces and other hateful permanents to the table in an attempt to slow TES down or prevent it from winning at all. These cards present the Storm player with two main options: remove the ...
Read More Final Initiative Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Burning Wish Rite of Flame Crash Chain of Vapor Lion’s Eye Diamond Mox Opal Brainstorm Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan While tempting due to the Crash and Chain of Vapor, we just need to send this hand back. We can’t cast any ...
Read More Special Guest A few words on Max Carini: (Twitter: @wonderpreaux | MTGO: wonderPreaux) Max Carini is an IT auditor hailing from the Bay Area and a self-described “rectangles-with-text” hobbyist. After watching Ad Nauseam resolve during coverage of an SCG Open in 2014, Max decided to wade into ...
Read More Initiative is a new Legacy deck built around the Dungeons and Initiative mechanic. A mono-white Stompy deck was born when two new white creatures – White Plume Adventurer, Seasoned Dungeoneer – both of which have the Initiative mechanic were printed. These creatures with the ...
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