The EPIC Storm is taking a big step forward with v13.7 to address the meta shifts that Legacy has seen over the past months. With the addition of Initiative cards to MTGO and a larger player focus on Initiative decks, it was time to change. The EPIC Storm has evolved over the past couple months...
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Doomsday is a rather simple deck in concept. Cast a Doomsday to make your library five cards and then win with a Thassa’s Oracle. The actual execution can vary by scenario. For example, how much mana do you have? How many cards can you draw? Can you afford to pass the turn? Questions like ...
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Interacting with The EPIC Storm does not always happen directly on the stack. Often opponents will bring lock pieces and other hateful permanents to the table in an attempt to slow TES down or prevent it from winning at all. These cards present the Storm player with two main options: remove the ...
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Final Initiative Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Burning Wish Rite of Flame Crash Chain of Vapor Lion’s Eye Diamond Mox Opal Brainstorm Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan While tempting due to the Crash and Chain of Vapor, we just need to send this hand back. We can’t cast any ...
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Special Guest A few words on Max Carini: (Twitter: @wonderpreaux | MTGO: wonderPreaux) Max Carini is an IT auditor hailing from the Bay Area and a self-described “rectangles-with-text” hobbyist. After watching Ad Nauseam resolve during coverage of an SCG Open in 2014, Max decided to wade into ...
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Eternal Weekend. This is often the pinnacle of participation for eternal format Magic players. The events certainly have a allure to them, drawing in players from across the globe to compete more vehemently than even competitors in the Magic Pro League. I have participated in a handful of these ...
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The 2022 Eternal Weekend events have come and gone, and a lot happening in all three Legacy events. There’s nothing quite like a major event to stir up excitement with players getting to bring their “A” game against other devoted Magic players. With two in-person events (Asia ...
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Initiative is a new Legacy deck built around the Dungeons and Initiative mechanic. A mono-white Stompy deck was born when two new white creatures – White Plume Adventurer, Seasoned Dungeoneer – both of which have the Initiative mechanic were printed. These creatures with the ...
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Combo decks in Legacy often get called non-interactive. With Storm, this could not be further from the truth. Usually, between four and eight slots are devoted to interacting in some way with the opponent. The EPIC Storm has played a variety of interaction pieces over the years and ...
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https://twitter.com/unhingedbasic/status/1599163162137624576 Competitive EDH (cEDH, pronounced Seee-Dee-H) is the competitive-player-driven project to use the rules and card pool just as they are in regular Commander (EDH) in games of four players who are all trying approximately their hardest ...
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Final The EPIC Gamble Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Wishclaw Talisman Lion’s Eye Diamond Lion’s Eye Diamond Ad Nauseam Underground Sea Burning Wish Chain of Vapor Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan Even if you’re fortune enough to receive a turn in the Storm mirror against a ...
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Special Guest A few words on Peter van der Ham: (Twitter: @PVDH_Magic | MTGO: Maraxus_of_NL) Peter “PVDH” van der Ham, from the small town of Gorinchem in the Netherlands, has been playing Magic the Gathering since 1999 and Legacy competitively since 2007. While a big aficionado of ...
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