Special thanks to Jarvis Yu for his contributions to today’s article. Lands is a legacy mainstay that has grown in popularity over the last few years. Until recently, Lands was always seen as a free win for The Epic Storm, but as Lands players have gained access to more powerful lands ...
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Eldrazi is a fairly new deck thanks to the recent Eldrazi additions from Oath of the Gatewatch. The “Stompy” archetype itself has been around for a very long time and its plan is to use fast mana to accelerate out lock pieces, and then follow them up with a fast clock to pressure ...
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4c Pile Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep Correctly, most people determined this is a keep. However, I think it is’t an immediate decision. What this hand needs is a “tutor effect”, specifically Infernal Tutor since we’re short on initial ...
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Reading the Ropes! In the last article, we covered the pros and cons of various win conditions in the deck. Hopefully, you took away from that article that a lot of our wins will come from Empty the Warrens or Ad Nauseam. The next step is to figure out...
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In the last month or so, I took a hard look at data from my spreadsheet and came to the conclusion that the reason I wasn’t spiking any events is that I needed to be better than 50% against Grixis Delver. When talking to AJ Kerrigan, he had a lot of success when returning to...
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Turbo Depths is a combo deck that tries to generate a Marit Lage token (20/20 Flying Indestructible) by either removing all of the counters with Vampire Hexmage or by creating a copy of Dark Depths with 0 counters using Thespian’s Stage. They try to do this very quickly (hence the name ...
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Since the last segment, our deck list has switched to the current standard of running the green splash for Abrupt Decay and Xantid Swarm (v3.9). This deck list is much stronger in the current metagame as Miracles has grown to be one of the most popular decks, with Abrupt Decay being the only ...
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Special thanks to Anuraag Das and Sam Roukas for their contributions to this article. Miracles, with and without Sensei’s Divining Top, has been a natural predator of The Epic Storm for many years. Force of Will, Counterbalance, and Terminus combine to form a suite of cards that can be ...
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Miracles Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan In the responses to the last article, players were unsure if this was a keep or a mulligan. I saw a lot of answers on both sides. In my opinion, it’s ultimately a mulligan. In the last article we talked about how ...
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Reading the Ropes! In the last article, we covered the basics of the various win conditions in the deck, and in this article we are going to do a deeper dive into that topic. There are a lot of small intricacies to The Epic Storm that can increase your...
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Lands Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep This is a keep, but a hesitant “loose” keep. I was actually somewhat shocked that no one else found the same way, I think the issue is/was not taking enough time to properly analyze the hand. The most common ...
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Aluren is an archetype based around, and abusing, the card Aluren. It does this by having an instant speed combo, and a lot of value creatures to make removal spells worse. The combo is to resolve an Aluren to play Parasitic Strix + Cavern Harpy to return the Parasitic Strix, and then use the ...
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