TES Matchup Battles: Moon Stompy II

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Moon Stompy is named after playing Magus of the Moon and Blood Moon with aggressive creatures like Legion Warboss and Goblin Rabblemaster. In addition to turning off the opponent’s lands, Moon Stompy also uses Chalice of the Void and Trinisphere to prevent the opponent from casting ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Elves II

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Elves is an creature based combo deck, obviously built around the Elf creature type. The main cards it’s trying to abuse are Glimpse of Nature, Gaea’s Cradle, and Natural Order. They also play a tutor package with Natural Order and Glimpse of Nature to search for any disruptive ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Ad Nauseam Tendrils II

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Ad Nauseam Tendrils is a deck like TES trying to win with the Storm mechanic using Tendrils of Agony. The main difference is Ad Nauseam Tendrils is built to be a little slower of a deck, using cards like Cabal Ritual and Past in Flames, to play into the later turns of a game. It...

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TES Matchup Battles: Sneak & Show II

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Sneak & Show is a deck that focuses on casting and abusing Show and Tell and Sneak Attack in combination with Griselbrand, and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn making the opponent sacrifice six permanents, or Griselbrand drawing many cards to find an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Painter

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Painter is a deck that revolves around the card Painter’s Servant and Grindstone. Painter’s Servant chooses a color, and then all cards become that color. When you then activate Grindstone, you can continue repeating the process because the cards share at least one color since they ...

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TES Matchup Battles: 8-Cast

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8-Cast is the evolution of Karn Echoes. Both are mono-blue artifact based decks that play Force of Will and Chalice of the Void. The main differences is that Karn Echos played Karn, the Great Creator with Lion’s Eye Diamond, a sideboard package, Echo of Eons and Hullbreacher to lock the ...

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The EPIC Gamble

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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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TES Matchup Battles: Lands II

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Lands gets its name from the entire deck being based around lands. Land tutors, assembling land combos, using lands to disrupt the opponent, ramping with lands, and even generating card advantage with lands from one of the more important cards, Life from the Loam. Ultimately, it wins by trying ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Aluren

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Aluren is a creature-based deck trying to abuse Aluren. They can do this by playing creatures for free and at instant speed to generate card and mana advantage or by winning through a combo. There are two different combinations that win the game with an Aluren in play. The first is with Cavern ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Jeskai Ragavan

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Jeskai Ragavan is a midrange deck made up of counterspells, removal spells, and cheap creatures with the main one being Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. Ever since its printing, many decks have been trying to use Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, and the Jeskai shell seems to be doing it the best. Jeskai ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Madness

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Madness is a deck looking to abuse the Madness mechanic, discarding cards from their hand. The goal is to try to get cards like Blazing Rootwalla, Hollow One, and Anje’s Ravager into play for free or cheaply. They can do this quickly by using cheap discard effects to get these creatures ...

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