Bryant Cook vs. Hans Jacob Goddick with BUG Delver
Bryant Cook vs. Hans Jacob Goddick with BUG Delver at Eternal Weekend: Pittsburgh, PA
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Through the Looking Glass: Elves with Julian Knab
Special thanks to Julian Knab for his contributions to today’s article. Today, like Alice, we climb through the looking glass. Elves is one of the most powerful and popular decks in the current meta. The little green men can form a solid grindy game plan, or with the help of Glimpse of ...
Read MoreTES Infernal Tutoring # 12
Welcome back to the Infernal Tutoring series! Hey Stormtroopers, I’m back with another episode of Infernal Tutoring. It has been almost 6 months since Sensei’s Divining Top was banned and it appears the meta is starting to settle. Many people assumed Grixis Delver would become the ...
Read MoreMatchup Mulligan: Grixis Delver
Hey! We’re back with another Matchup Mulligan! This series goes over 10 opening hands, 5 pre-board and 5 post-board opening hands. The hands are not random, they’ve been sculpted by me for the purpose of these exercises. Pre-board Hand 1: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan ...
Read MoreTES Matchup Battles: Lands
It is time for yet another edition of the TES Matchup Battles series and this episode we take on Lands! Jarvis Yu, one of the most well known Lands players, best describes Lands as a Life from the Loam deck. “With the ability to both recur lands and ‘draw’ three cards a turn ...
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Eternal Extravaganza VII Report (9/16/17) – 8th Place
Jim Baxter is a guest writer on theepicstorm.com The Epic Storm was a favorite of mine back in the days of City of Brass, Gemstone Mine, and Silence. I wasn’t terribly good, but I had a blast doing unfair things. At one point I dismantled it because I didn’t regularly play Legacy, and when I...
Read MoreDeck List Updates – EE7
Hey everyone! Here to provide some insight on some of the deck changes over the last few months. If you follow my spreadsheet you’ll know that I test different things quite frequently, always trying to find the best list for the metagame. Since I track deck versions and all of the ...
Read MoreMatchup Mulligan: Storm
Hey! We’re back with the second Matchup Mulligan! Let’s dive in. This series will go over 10 opening hands, 5 pre-board and 5 post-board with the same numbers for being on the play or drawing first. The hands are not random, they’ve been sculpted by me for the purpose of these ...
Read MoreTES Infernal Tutoring # 11
Welcome back to the Infernal Tutoring series! Hey Stormtroopers, I’m back with another episode of Infernal Tutoring. I have been getting tons of practice with the deck since the last installment and feel like I am fast improving with the deck. However, The EPIC Storm still proves to be ...
Read MoreMatchup Mulligan: Death & Taxes
Something I’ve been working on in recent months is cracking down on myself about mulligans. In the past, I’ve been very lazy and unwilling or even afraid to go down to six or five. But the truth of the matter is aggressive mulliganing in certain matchups will result in more game ...
Read MoreSideboard Musings: Contextualizing Card Values
Contextualizing the Sideboard Today we are talking about the sideboard. We aren’t going to rehash specific matchup analysis which is covered extensively elsewhere on this site: Bryant’s sideboard guide and AJ’s matchup analysis. Instead we are going to take a high level look at how and why ...
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