TES Matchup Battles: UR Delver III

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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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Metalcrafting the Perfect Bauble

Mishra's Bauble

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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TES Matchup Battles: Rainbow Depths

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Rainbow Depths is among the fastest and most straightforward versions of a Dark Depths deck by dedicating most of the deck to assembling the combo and protecting it. This makes executing the combo brutally effective, but there is no alternative game plan. The Rainbow part of Rainbow Depths is ...

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Beyond Rite of Flame

Carpet of Flowers Hero Image

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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TES Matchup Battles: Mono-Green Cloudpost

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Mono-Green Cloudpost is a ramp deck that takes advantage of Cloudpost, Glimmerpost, and Vesuva to produce large amounts of mana to cast Eldrazi creaturesand Primeval Titan. The deck plays cards like Expedition Map and Crop Rotation to find the key lands. With the recent printing of Elvish ...

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TES Matchup Battles: BUG Ninjas

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BUG Ninjas is a fairly new deck that takes advantage the Ninjutsu ability, using Yuriko, the Tiger’s Shadow and Ingenious Infiltrator. This allows the deck to draw multiple cards a turn to overwhelm the opponent in card advantage. In order to do this as early as possible, they play cards ...

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