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TES Matchup Battles: Boros Initiative

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Boros Initiative is a fast and aggressive creature-based deck. The entire deck revolves around getting aggressive and disruptive creatures into play as fast as possible. This means the deck is comprised of mostly fast mana and creatures. These creatures are divided into two categories, fast ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Painter II

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Painter is a deck that revolves around the card Painter’s Servant and Grindstone. Painter’s Servant chooses a color, and then all cards become that color. When you then activate Grindstone, you can continue repeating the process because the cards share at least one color since they are all the ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Orzhov Death & Taxes

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Orzhov Death & Taxes has the same core deck as mono white Death and & Taxes, but since the printing of Orcish Bowmasters it has made splash black most of the time. There are many decks in Legacy that draw cards or have one toughness creatures, so Orcish Bowmasters has quickly become a ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Temur Rhinos

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Temur Rhinos is a deck aimed at assembling a pair of Rhino Token from Crashing Footfalls by the first or second turn. Crashing Footfalls can’t be cast off suspend by that early, but instead is cast off of a cascade trigger from Shardless Agent and Violent Outburst. The only card that you ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Death’s Shadow III

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Death’s Shadow is a UB deck that is centered around playing cards that cause you to lose life in order to play an early and big Death’s Shadow. There isn’t much of a comprimise in the rest of the deck since most of the Legacy staples already do damage to yourself or have an exact...

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TES Matchup Battles: Gruul Initiative

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Since the initiative mechanic has been released there have been many different decks trying to utilize it. Mono-white, Esper control, mono-black, and now Gruul decks have attempted to leverage the mechanic. Gruul Initiative is a red-green stompy deck playing eight copies of initiative creatures ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Cephalid Breakfast

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Cephalid Breakfast is an Esper combo deck that is based around Cephalid Illusionist. When Cephalid Illusionist is targeted by either a Shuko or Nomads en-Kor then three cards will be milled into the graveyard. This will be repeated until the entire deck has been milled into the graveyard. In ...

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TES Matchup Battles: The EPIC Storm II

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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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TES Matchup Battles: Doomsday II

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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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