TES Matchup Battles: Madness

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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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Matchup Mulligan: Madness

Matchup Mulligan

Final Bant Control Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Echo of Eons Lion’s Eye Diamond Lotus Petal Brainstorm Mox Opal Burning Wish Galvanic Relay Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand looks much better than it actually is, there’s some natural friction happening that may not be ...

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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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Matchup Mulligan: Bant Control

Matchup Mulligan

Final UR Delver Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Galvanic Relay Galvanic Relay Abrupt Decay Aeve, Progenitor Ooze Volcanic Island Bloodstained Mire Bloodstained Mire Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand isn’t perfect, but we do have Abrupt Decay to slow the game down. I would lead the ...

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Card Review: Wish

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Wish Burning Wish Wish Death Wish Wish is a flexible new take on the ability to fetch cards from outside the game. Its text has a lot of subtleties that grant it some extra power. By using the word “play”,  Wish allows its caster to play lands in addition to spells from their ...

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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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Card Review: Modern Horizons 2

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Modern Horizons 2 was a set that I was a little bit terrified for, especially after how the original Modern Horizons influenced Legacy. Fortunately, Modern Horizons 2 seems to have provided many new options for The EPIC Storm! Cards For the EPIC Storm Aeve, Progenitor Ooze Aeve, Progenitor Ooze ...

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Through the Looking Glass: UR Delver with Jarvis Yu

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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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