Theory

Deck List Updates - Eternal Weekend & SCG:DC

Articles, Deck List, Legacy, Main Deck, Sideboard, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory, Updates , , , ,
Over the last few weeks I've played in three large Legacy events, this has caused me to question some slots in the deck. Below you can find my thoughts on these questionable slots and possible directions to where The EPIC Storm should be going. Deck Lists Eternal Weekend - Deck List (v3.3) Main Deck 4 Infernal Tutor 3 Burning Wish 1 Empty the Warrens 1 Ad Nauseam 4 Brainstorm 4 Ponder 4 Gitaxian Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Elves with Julian Knab

Articles, Legacy, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory , , , ,
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 Nature and Natural Order, can combo off as quickly as turn two. The storm variants have a faster fundamental Read More »

TES Infernal Tutoring # 12

Articles, Legacy, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory ,
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 top deck, but it appears from the last few months of data that 4c Control is actually the best performing, or at least most represented deck, Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Grixis Delver

Legacy, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory , , , , , , , ,
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 This hand has a few things wrong with it: The first being that you're incredibly light on mana, even if your Bloodstained Read More »

So Meta

Articles, Deck List, Legacy, Main Deck, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory, Updates , , , ,
Intro We are often asked what the best deck is, or the best build of TES and ANT. In truth there is no best version as every shift in the metagame changes the texture of how our deck operates and performs. The best build today won't be the best build next month, and cards that are bad today might just be what take TES to the top 8 of a Grand Read More »

Deck List Updates - EE7

Articles, Deck List, Legacy, Main Deck, Sideboard, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory, Updates , , , ,
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 information is public, I receive a lot of messages and emails asking about things I am trying. I don't answer Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Storm

Legacy, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory , , , , , , ,
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 exercises. Pre-board Hand 1: (on the play) » Keep or Mulligan? Keep Even on the play, this is an ideal Read More »

TES Infernal Tutoring # 11

Articles, Legacy, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory ,
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 the hardest deck I have ever played in Magic: The Gathering. The increased threat density of both Burning Wish and Infernal Tutor can Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Death and Taxes

Legacy, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory , , , , ,
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 wins than playing with essentially one hand tied behind your back, by keeping a bad hand. While it's still Read More »

Sideboard Musings: Contextualizing Card Values

Articles, Sideboard, Strategy, TES, The EPIC Storm, Theory , , , ,
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 the value of specific cards in our deck changes based on how our opponent is trying to interact with us. Before we get started however I Read More »
Page 3 of 712345...Last »
PAGE

Tutoring


Interested in getting better with The EPIC Storm? We have some resources below that will help you accomplish that! We offer one-on-one tutoring sessions to help players analyze things that they might not recognize on their… Read More »