TES Matchup Battles: 8-Cast

Matchup Battles

8-Cast is the evolution of Karn Echoes. Both are mono-blue artifact based decks that play Force of Will and Chalice of the Void. The main differences is that Karn Echos played Karn, the Great Creator with Lion’s Eye Diamond, a sideboard package, Echo of Eons and Hullbreacher to lock the ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Lands II

Matchup Battles

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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TES Matchup Battles: Aluren

Matchup Battles

Aluren is a creature-based deck trying to abuse Aluren. They can do this by playing creatures for free and at instant speed to generate card and mana advantage or by winning through a combo. There are two different combinations that win the game with an Aluren in play. The first is with Cavern ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Madness

Matchup Battles

Madness is a deck looking to abuse the Madness mechanic, discarding cards from their hand. The goal is to try to get cards like Blazing Rootwalla, Hollow One, and Anje’s Ravager into play for free or cheaply. They can do this quickly by using cheap discard effects to get these creatures ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Bant Control

Matchup Battles

Bant Control is an iteration of the previous Snow Control decks that’s using green for cards like Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath, Endurance, Ice-Fang Coatl, and other sideboard cards. The recent printing of Endurance has pushed these previous Snow Control decks from Jeskai or four ...

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TES Matchup Battles: UR Delver III

Matchup Battles

UR Delver is made up of cantrips, burn spells, aggressive creatures, and counterspells. Its game plan is to try to and play an early aggressive creature and then use counterspells and burn spells to disrupt the opponent enough to end the game quickly. Dragon’s Rage Channeler, Ragavan, ...

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Through the Looking Glass: UR Delver with Jarvis Yu

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Jarvis Yu (@jkyu06): Jarvis Yu works during the day as a mathematical statistician for the United States government. He has four Grand Prix T8s (Seattle 2015, Columbus 2016, New Jersey 2017, Atlanta 2019), with Seattle being a win. He has also played 22 Pro Tour/Pro ...

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Legacy Challenge – 12/20/20 – Top 8 vs. UnderwaterBimbo with UR Delver

TES vs. UR Delver | Veil of Summer against Flusterstorm

the epic Storm .dek (MTGO) | .txt Main Deck 4 Burning Wish 4 Wishclaw Talisman 4 Brainstorm 4 Ponder 1 Tendrils of Agony 1 Ad Nauseam 1 Echo of Eons 4 Veil of Summer 2 Defense Grid 4 Rite of Flame 4 Dark Ritual 4 Lion’s Eye Diamond 4 Lotus Petal 3 Mox Opal 3...

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