TES Matchup Battles: Painter

Matchup Battles

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 are all the same color. The process will repeat Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Painter with Callum Smith

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Callum Smith Callum Smith is a casual-competitive player from London, England. He's a host on the Everyday Eternal podcast and these days lover of all things with the artifact type. How has [[Urza's Saga]] changed the approach of Painter? Does [[Urza's Saga]] impact the match-up against The EPIC storm? Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Painter

Matchup Mulligan

Final 8-Cast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Ad Nauseam|]] [[Underground Sea|]] [[Lotus Petal|]] [[Orim's Chant|]] [[Galvanic Relay|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep While this hand doesn't beat their [[Chalice of the Void]] draws, it certainly can combat the eight "Force effects" ([[Force of Will]]/[[Force of Negation]]) hands. To Read More »

Pauper Cycle Storm Primer

Cycle Storm

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 game, like Read More »

TES Matchup Battles: 8-Cast

Matchup Battles

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 opponents out of the game. Read More »

The EPIC Gamble

Gamble

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 designed to cast [[Echo Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: 8-Cast with David Fleischmann-Rose

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on David Fleischmann-Rose David Fleischmann-Rose was first introduced to Magic when a friend showed him how to play with an Unlimited Starter Deck in 1994. He bought his first cards - Revised and The Dark - at his local video rental store, and has been hooked ever since. David placed Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: 8-Cast

Matchup Mulligan

Final Lands Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Ponder|]] [[Brainstorm|]] [[Abrupt Decay|]] [[Badlands|]] [[Scalding Tarn|]] [[Lotus Petal|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep One of the most crucial components to the Lands matchup is being able to answer [[Sphere of Resistance]] when on the draw, and this hand does that nicely. Read More »