Matchup Mulligan: Sultai Beanstalk

Matchup Mulligan

Final Boros Initiative Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Mox Opal|]] [[Beseech the Mirror|]] [[Underground Sea|]] [[Misty Rainforest|]] [[Misty Rainforest|]] [[Bloodstained Mire|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan This hand is a trap! It looks good, but it's actually mediocre. To understand why, think about how the game plays out. On your Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Orzhov Death & Taxes

Matchup Mulligan

Final Temur Rhinos Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Mox Opal|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Thoughtseize|]] [[Empty the Warrens|]] [[Beseech the Mirror|]] [[Chrome Mox|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep It's very risky, but as I said in the last article, you need to take big swings in bad matchups. Against the deck Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Temur Rhinos

Matchup Mulligan

Final Death's Shadow Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) [[Burning Wish|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Echo of Eons|]] [[Echo of Eons|]] [[Veil of Summer|]] [[Abrupt Decay|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand is surprisingly resilient to both countermagic and discard spells due to having a pair of [[Lion's Eye Diamond]] Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Death’s Shadow III

Matchup Mulligan

Final Lands Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Brainstorm|]] [[Mox Opal|]] [[Mishra's Bauble|]] [[Urza's Bauble|]] [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Infernal Tutor|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan Lands decks are back to playing [[Sphere of Resistance]], and in these matchups often mulligan aggressively for hands that can cast it on the first turn. Read More »

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 »

Matchup Mulligan: Merfolk

Matchup Mulligan

Final Death’s Shadow Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) [[Veil of Summer|]] [[Veil of Summer|]] [[Carpet of Flowers|]] [[Carpet of Flowers|]] [[Chrome Mox|]] [[Echo of Eons|]] [[Ponder|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep I'm not overly excited with this hand, but it's secretly effective in the matchup. You're immediately faced with a difficult decision Read More »

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

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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 »

Through the Looking Glass: Goblins with Eli Goings

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Eli Goings (Twitter: goblinlackey1 | MTGO: Caedyrn) Eli is a longtime magic player who moved to a dedicated Legacy Goblins player in 2016. He's moved to making Legacy content on Twitch and Youtube consistently in the past few years, and is always tinkering with new Goblins lists to find Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Delver with Michael Lewis

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Michael Lewis (Twitch: LewisCBR | MTGO: LewisCBR ): Michael Lewis, better known as his Magic Online username LewisCBR, has been playing Magic since 1994, during the Revised era. Originally a Canadian Threshold player in Legacy, Michael will usually sleeve up any Delver variant he deems to be the best Read More »