The EPIC Gamble

Gamble

What is The EPIC Gamble? [[Gamble|]] [[Lion’s Eye Diamond|]] [[Echo of Eons|]] The EPIC Gamble is primarily a red Ruby Storm deck that can support a splash color of one’s preference with relative ease. The play patterns are considerably different from previous iterations of Ruby Storm. No other Storm deck is designed to cast [[Echo Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: 8-Cast with David Fleischmann-Rose

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on David Fleischmann-Rose David Fleischmann-Rose was first introduced to Magic when a friend showed him how to play with an Unlimited Starter Deck in 1994. He bought his first cards - Revised and The Dark - at his local video rental store, and has been hooked ever since. David placed Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: 8-Cast

Matchup Mulligan

Final Lands Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Ponder|]] [[Brainstorm|]] [[Abrupt Decay|]] [[Badlands|]] [[Scalding Tarn|]] [[Lotus Petal|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep One of the most crucial components to the Lands matchup is being able to answer [[Sphere of Resistance]] when on the draw, and this hand does that nicely. Read More »

Eternal Weekend (11/19/2021) — 55th Place

EternalWeekend-Wasteland

My name is Aryaman Tummalapalli, and though I was born in India, I never really lived there, growing up mostly in Singapore, with stints in DC and Tokyo. I went to college in New York City, and I'm now a software engineer living in San Francisco. I have been playing Magic for almost six years Read More »

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 using [[Thespian's Stage]] to make a Read More »

8 Thoughts about 8-Cast

Thought Monitor Hero Image

1. What is 8-Cast? [[Chalice of the Void|]] [[Thought Monitor|]] [[Force of Will|]] 8-Cast is the evolution to one of the scariest matchups for The EPIC Storm: Karn Echoes. Both are mono-blue artifact decks that play [[Force of Will]] and [[Chalice of the Void]]. Karn Echoes also played [[Karn, the Great Creator]], which is nearly Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Lands II

Matchup Mulligan

Final Aluren Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Ad Nauseam|]] [[Underground Sea|]] [[Burning Wish|]] [[Tendrils of Agony|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep What does this hand do well? It dodges Force of Vigor entirely. What it doesn't do well is beat four to seven "[[Force of Read More »