With Modern Horizons 3, Wizards of the Coast set out to revitalize combo in Modern. When people talk about the heyday of Modern in 2017-2018, Izzet Gifts Storm was the premier spell-based combo deck. Since then, the printings of Force of Negation and other interactive spells have pushed it out ...
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Wizards of the Coast has gifted the Storm community once again with another removal spell! Over the years, my binder has become full of slight sidegrades to Abrupt Decay, Chain of Vapor, and Echoing Truth. Molten Collapse is the most recent removal spell in this long line of cards, and it has ...
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The original Throne of Eldraine gave us Wishclaw Talisman, a card that has turned out to be hugely impactful for how The EPIC Storm has been built ever since. Wilds of Eldraine, Magic‘s newest expansion has yet another busted tutor effect. Meet Beseech the Mirror: Beseech the Mirror ...
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After 20 years, Mind’s Desire has been unbanned in Legacy! After being legal in the format for only a few months, this powerful Storm spell has been released into Legacy. Previously, we thought that even if unbanned, Mind’s Desire might not even be good enough to play and was just ...
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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 ...
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Despite the recent appearance of Gruul Storm in Modern, it has been a couple years since Izzet Gifts Ungiven-based Storm has had much in the way of results. One part of this is the lack of new cards from the past few years of sets. For instance, the most significant new addition to the deck...
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It has been a few weeks since the banning of Expressive Iteration and White Plume Adventurer. In that time, the Legacy Showcase Qualifier happened. With our own Bryant Cook qualified for the tournament, locking in a list became important. Bryant played the list below to a ninth-place finish on ...
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As the Pioneer format has come into its own over the past couple years, one deck in particular has been at the top as the premier combo deck of the format. That deck is Lotus Field Combo. The main engine in the deck is to get a Lotus Field into play and then create a...
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On Monday, March 5th, Wizards of the Coast finally posted a ban update for Legacy. Expressive Iteration and White Plume Adventurer were banned in an attempt to bring URx Delver and Initiative decks more in line with the format. These are good changes and will change the Legacy metagame and how ...
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GRUUL STORM Even though it has been a few years since being at the top of the metagame, a Pyretic Ritual and Desperate Ritual-based Storm inModern is back and faster than ever in its new Gruul-based form! Instead of relying on the engine of Gifts Ungiven and Past in Flames to give us ...
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Eternal Weekend. This is often the pinnacle of participation for eternal format Magic players. The events certainly have a allure to them, drawing in players from across the globe to compete more vehemently than even competitors in the Magic Pro League. I have participated in a handful of these ...
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Welcome to Pauper, the format with most of the fun fast mana of Legacy, but without the unfun answers like Force of Will, Chalice of the Void, and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. The Storm mechanic has had a complicated history in Pauper, with most of the Storm cards that can directly win the ...
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