We are back with this month’s Infernal Tutoring article! As always, the Legacy Metagame is evolving. Miracles beat Storm in the finals at Eternal Weekend, with a top eight consisting of Sneak And Show, Czech Pile, Turbo Depths, Grixis Control, Elves, and Turbo Depths. Grixis Delver beat ...
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Hey everyone! As the year comes to an end, I’d like to reflect on where this year has gone. It’s been quite the year for Magic and Legacy. We’ve had the bannings of Gitaxian Probe and Deathrite Shaman that have changed the format and changed our decklist. Looking back at ...
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Special thanks to Eric Landon for his contributions to today’s article.BR Reanimator is not only one of the most popular fast combo decks in today’s metagame, but it is also known as one of the worst matchups for The EPIC Storm. For this month’s edition of Through the Looking ...
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Grixis Control was the most played Legacy deck at Pro Tour 25th Anniversary a couple months ago. One of the reasons it’s so popular is due to it having a slightly higher than 50% matchup against most decks in the field. It plays out like a classic Jund-style deck. These type of decks tend to...
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I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve written a long-winded article, so here it goes! Whether you want to believe it or not, Miracles is currently the best deck in Legacy again. Many Legacy stalwarts feel this way, not to mention the metagame data backs this up between my ...
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Grixis Control Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I would likely keep this hand, but I wouldn’t just jam on the first turn if I drew a land. I would cast Duress. Your opponent likely has Flusterstorm, Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, and Force of Will, ...
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With the release of Guilds of Ravnica, Legacy received one of the most powerful removal spells ever, Assassin’s Trophy. As I was playing leagues, I was really hoping to run into this card more to see it in action. In this version of the list, there are two Past in Flames in the sideboard, ...
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Today, we’re going to deviate a bit from our normal overview article format, and instead do a deep dive into something I’ve been wishing to write about for a while. The desire to share this has simply been…burning within me.. I think you can see where I’m going with ...
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Special thanks to Brian Braun-Duin for his contributions to today’s article.Grixis Control has been one of, if not the most popular deck in legacy for a while now. It’s strong combination of discard spells and countermagic can be a challenge for The EPIC Storm to win through. This ...
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Death’s Shadow Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I would hope most people would keep this, but recently I’ve found less experienced players addressing their concerns about keeping “no-land hands” against blue decks. I think this comes from the Ad ...
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Goblins is one of the most historic legacy decks because it has existed since the inception of legacy. Goblins has significantly decreased in popularity over the past several years due to the printing of Deathrite Shaman, and a few other cards, but since its banning people have been trying it ...
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At this point in the series, I feel that I’ve covered a lot of the very basic concepts that go into piloting The EPIC Storm, and so now it is time to start looking at some more complicated or unorthodox ideas. The next few articles will touch on some ideas that might seem innocuous, but...
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