Matchup Mulligan: Lands III

Matchup Mulligan

Final Rakdos Reanimator Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) [[Burning Wish|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Volcanic Island|]] [[Veil of Summer|]] [[Ad Nauseam|]] [[Thoughtseize|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan What does this hand do? You're not even remotely close to casting [[Ad Nauseam]], you don't have the mana to cast either [[Thoughtseize]] Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Lands with Jarvis Yu

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Jarvis Yu: (Twitter: @jkyu06 | MTGO: Samwise_GeeGee) Jarvis Yu works during the day as a mathematical statistician for the United States government. He has four Grand Prix Top 8's (Seattle 2015 (Legacy), Columbus 2016 (Legacy), New Jersey 2017 (Standard), Atlanta 2019 (Legacy)), with Seattle being a win. He has Read More »

TES Infernal Tutoring #66

Infernal Tutoring

Breaking News: Infernal Tutoring is actually playing [[Infernal Tutor]] again! The EPIC Storm has recently undergone a large shift thanks to some dedicated testing focused on how to stay competitive in the current Legacy metagame. It all began with the adoption of [[Mishra's Bauble]] over [[Ponder]] — a change brought about by the recognition of Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: Reanimator II

Matchup Battles

Reanimator is a type of deck that has seen play in every format since the early days of Magic's history. The strategy is to put an expensive creature into the graveyard and then put it into play with cards like [[Reanimate]], [[Exhume]], and [[Animate Dead]]. The creatures they are trying to reanimate are [[Griselbrand]] and Read More »

Tapping back into Modern Storm — Lotus Breach

Lotus Breach

As many of us acutely know for a while now, Storm-based decks have been on the decline for years in Modern with the main exception being the brief rise early this year of Gruul Storm utilizing the power of [[Underworld Breach]], [[Goblin Anarchomancer]] and [[Dragon’s Rage Channeler]]. While it has already been around in the Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: BR Reanimator III

Matchup Mulligan

Final 8-Cast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Lotus Petal|]] [[Mox Opal|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] [[Burning Wish|]] [[Taiga|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep A common play-pattern as 8-Cast against The EPIC Storm is to play [[Chalice of the Void]] with one counter. The hand above is capable of Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: BR Reanimator with John Shindledecker

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on John Shindledecker: (Twitter: @shindymtg | MTGO:shindy) John Shindledecker ("Shindy") has been playing Magic since the age of 13 (original Theros). When I picked up Legacy for the first time a few years into my Magic career, I immediately fell in love with the Reanimator archetype. A veteran of the Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: 8 Cast II

Matchup Battles

8 Cast is a deck named appropriately for playing eight cards like [[Thoughtcast]] in four copies of [[Thoughtcast]] and four copies of [[Thought Monitor]]. It's a slower artifact deck that aims to out card advantage the opponent with eight copies of cards that draw two cards, [[Emry, Lurker of the Loch]], [[Sai, Master Thopterist]], and Read More »