When it came to the decision on what to play at Grand Prix: Columbus, OH my decision was really simple — The EPIC Storm (TES) is what I’m best at. The group of guys for the trip was Colin Chilbert (Di), Carl Dillahay (Carlitobunz), and Dan Walton. We began our journey pretty early ...
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Mystical Tutor was banned, but we had two weeks left to play it. This event was essentially a farewell to the card for me. I’ve received a number of messages about my plans for The EPIC Storm (TES) moving forward, some even thinking the deck is dead — it’s not. Mystical Tutor was a ...
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A Black Lotus event right in my own back yard! I felt ready and confident after my recent changes to The EPIC Storm (TES). the epic Storm Main Deck 4 Burning Wish 3 Infernal Tutor 2 Mystical Tutor 4 Brainstorm 4 Ponder 1 Empty the Warrens 1 Tendrils of Agony 1 Ad Nauseam 4 Duress...
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At the last Jupiter Games event I went to I was running a few sideboard Xantid Swarm — they kicked ass. However, I still missed Pyroblast. I decided that I wanted to run both, but there wasn’t enough room in the sideboard. This meant if I wanted to play Xantid Swarm I would have to...
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After the event last month, I was in a pretty bad car accident. I’m fine but my car was in bad shape, my only goal for this event was to win some cash. I rode with The EPIC Syndicate to the event and received the two Japanese foil Deathmark that I ordered when I arrived!...
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I decided to stay at college the night before needed to wake up at 7AM to begin the drive to Syracuse to meet up with The EPIC Syndicate. I get to Adam Barnello’s by 8:45AM and we’re off! We had decided to start a new tradition on the ride down. If someone in the car...
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The EPIC Syndicate was supposed to get together the night before to test for the event, because that’s what real teams do. That’s not what we did, the team has good intentions which eventually lead to us just playing Elder Dragon Highlander and Skittles. It went way later than we ...
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About two weeks ago, I was testing against Geoff Smelski (konsultant) and Geoff was just destroying me with Landstill. The issue wasn’t being over-loaded against too many counterspells or being outdrawn, it was that Ad Nauseam kept on failing. I knew I needed to make a change (see below). ...
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Alright, fare warning: I didn’t have any truly difficult match-ups — I accept this. Originally, I wasn’t going to write a report, because of that, I didn’t take very good notes. the epic Storm Main Deck 4 Burning Wish 4 Infernal Tutor 4 Brainstorm 3 Ponder 4 Orim’s ...
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