August 2017

Site Updates: Domain and Hosting Migration

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Hey everyone! I'm going to switch hosting/domain providers to a faster solution. I feel the current site is a little slow, mostly due to an old php version that my current provider won't upgrade. But also, shared hosting. The new providers offers VPS hosting, which should make the website a WHOLE lot faster. I'll pay for the site transfer and the increase in hosting myself as the site is my project/brain child, but Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Death & Taxes

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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 essentially one hand tied behind your back, by keeping a bad hand. While it's still Read More »

Sideboard Musings: Contextualizing Card Values

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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 based on how our opponent is trying to interact with us. Before we get started however I Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: Burn

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It is time for yet another edition of the TES Matchup Battles series and this episode we take on Burn! Burn is a deck that uses efficient creatures and red instant and sorcery spells to deal direct damage to your opponent in an effort to end the game as quickly as possible using little to no disruption. Burn has long been a strategy, and many of the original "burn spells" like Read More »

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