Hello everyone and welcome back to Reading the Ropes! In this article, we are going to cover the basics of how to mulligan with The Epic Storm. Knowing how to mulligan is an incredibly intricate concept that can’t easily be covered in one article, but my goal is to provide you the tools ...
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Elves is an aggro/combo engine deck that uses synergy and many small incremental advantages to build up an enormous amount of cards and mana, like storm, in order to play giant monsters and win the game in a single turn. However, while elves is most commonly known for its ability to combo off ...
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Bryant Cook providing reasoning on the experimental list that is v4.4
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Deck List Main Deck 4 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 Goblin Electromancer 4 Pyretic Ritual 4 Desperate Ritual 4 Manamorphose 4 Serum Visions 4 Sleight of Hand 3 Opt 3 Remand 1 Repeal 4 Gifts Ungiven 2 Past in Flames 2 Grapeshot 1 Empty the Warrens 1 Noxious Revival 4 Scalding Tarn 1 Polluted Delta...
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Eldrazi Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan The crowd seemed to be split 50/50 on this decision, which is good, it means people are thinking about these! That said, to me, it’s a Mulligan. If you were to keep this hand, the correct line of play would be to ...
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Since our last Infernal Tutoring session, we’ve had a couple minor tweaks to our deck list. We cut the copy of Telemin Performance in our sideboard for a fourth copy of Empty the Warrens. This decision was brought upon by the fact that Grixis Delver is the best deck in the format, and ...
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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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