For the past six months, The EPIC Storm (TES) team has been experimenting with many lists cutting Rite of Flame. extra lands, main deck copies of Carpet of Flowers, and more moxen were all underwhelming and Rite of Flame was slotted back in. Recently, however, Mishra’s Bauble has taken ...
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Legacy recently had one of the most monumental shifts in the format: the bannings of Dreadhorde Arcanist, Oko, Thief of Crowns, and Arcum’s Astrolabe. The two weeks since this banning have been a flurry of brewing and seeing resurgences of older strategies that have been dormant during ...
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Over time, it is common for decks to evolve and cut cards that were once essential to their strategy. The EPIC Storm cut Infernal Tutor for Wishclaw Talisman to great success in 2019. Identifying cards that can seem to be linchpins, but can be upgraded is essential to evolving and continuing to ...
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Commander Legends is the newest supplemental set to enter Legacy, and it has fewer cards than expected to impact the format. For The EPIC Storm, the two most impactful cards are both one-sided lock pieces: Hullbreacher and Opposition Agent. Hullbreacher HullbreacherCreature – Merfolk ...
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!mbt is a common command in a couple of Twitch chats. It spits back out the meme, “I don’t know what that is, and I’m not playing around it”. For a long time in Legacy, playing against a Mindbreak Trap (MBT) was just someone’s choice addition as a sideboard slot. ...
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Empty the Warrens has been a defining card of The EPIC Storm for most of it’s existence. There were points in time where there were up to four copies in the 75. More recently, there is only one copy of Empty the Warrens in TES and it is used only about five percent of the...
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Underworld Breach is banned! Though it was in Legacy for just a short time, it proved to be an incredibly dominant and format warping card. Obviously my analysis of the card and its power level were flawed, but some of the ideas were correct. Underworld Breach was not a Yawgmoth’s Will in ...
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I’ve been focusing my efforts over the last few months on Standard as I had two Grand Prix within driving distance. Now that the dust has settled on those, I’ve been back to counting to ten (and sometimes twenty)! Â Recently some of you may have seen me streaming while testing for ...
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With Star City Games: Philadelphia approaching, I’ve been doing more analyzing to the gain the slightest edges in match-ups. Since my last article, Jordon Robbins has won an SCG IQ and top 8’d a classic, with a list similar enough to the standard. The main difference being the ...
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