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 ...
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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 ...
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In the weeks leading up to The Legacy Pit Open, I have been “heating-up” so-to-speak after a prolonged slump. With the addition of some powerful white cards to The EPIC Storm (TES), which you can read about below, I was feeling very confident heading into this weekend. I traveled ...
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The EPIC Storm (TES) has a long history of playing as many colors as it needs to access all of the effects that are relevant for a given metagame. In more recent times, TES has been a three-color deck and then a four-color deck with the adoption of Veil of Summer. Modern Horizons II has...
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For the past six months, The EPIC Storm (TES) team has been experimenting with many lists cutting Rite of Flame. extra lands, main deck copies of Carpet of Flowers, and more moxen were all underwhelming and Rite of Flame was slotted back in. Recently, however, Mishra’s Bauble has taken ...
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What is The EPIC Ruby Storm? Ruby Medallion Birgi, God of Storytelling Echo of Eons The EPIC Ruby Storm is a variant of Ruby Storm that has borrowed some of the most powerful components from The EPIC Storm and plugged them into Ruby Storm: Lion’s Eye Diamond, Echo of Eons, Peer into the ...
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Legacy recently had one of the most monumental shifts in the format: the bannings of Dreadhorde Arcanist, Oko, Thief of Crowns, and Arcum’s Astrolabe. The two weeks since this banning have been a flurry of brewing and seeing resurgences of older strategies that have been dormant during ...
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Over time, it is common for decks to evolve and cut cards that were once essential to their strategy. The EPIC Storm cut Infernal Tutor for Wishclaw Talisman to great success in 2019. Identifying cards that can seem to be linchpins, but can be upgraded is essential to evolving and continuing to ...
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!mbt is a common command in a couple of Twitch chats. It spits back out the meme, “I don’t know what that is, and I’m not playing around it”. For a long time in Legacy, playing against a Mindbreak Trap (MBT) was just someone’s choice addition as a sideboard slot. ...
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Underworld Breach is banned! Though it was in Legacy for just a short time, it proved to be an incredibly dominant and format warping card. Obviously my analysis of the card and its power level were flawed, but some of the ideas were correct. Underworld Breach was not a Yawgmoth’s Will in ...
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A lot like the Leaving A Legacy Open V, the From the Vault Games crew decided to leave Syracuse, N.Y. at 4:30 a.m. in order to get to Acton, Mass. in time for the main event. The six of us that were sponsored by our favorite local game store knew it was going to be...
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How far we’ve come! Really though, it’s been quite the trek. I first wrote about The EPIC Storm (TES) vs. Ad Nauseam Tendrils (ANT) in 2015 and then again in 2017. One of the over-arching themes of the 2017 article was that I expected the two decks to eventually merge and that ...
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