Card Review: Forth Eorlingas!

Forth Eorlingas!

Lord of the Rings: Tails of Middle Earth has had a surprising impact on Legacy. From [[Orcish Bowmasters]] to [[The One Ring]], most fair decks in the format have gotten a powerful upgrade. [[Forth Eorlingas!]] is a card mostly found in control decks and Jeskai Delver. This powerful sorcery might have a home in The Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: Lands III

Matchup Mulligan

Final Rakdos Reanimator Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) [[Burning Wish|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Volcanic Island|]] [[Veil of Summer|]] [[Ad Nauseam|]] [[Thoughtseize|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan What does this hand do? You're not even remotely close to casting [[Ad Nauseam]], you don't have the mana to cast either [[Thoughtseize]] Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: Lands with Jarvis Yu

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on Jarvis Yu: (Twitter: @jkyu06 | MTGO: Samwise_GeeGee) Jarvis Yu works during the day as a mathematical statistician for the United States government. He has four Grand Prix Top 8's (Seattle 2015 (Legacy), Columbus 2016 (Legacy), New Jersey 2017 (Standard), Atlanta 2019 (Legacy)), with Seattle being a win. He has Read More »

TES Infernal Tutoring #66

Infernal Tutoring

Breaking News: Infernal Tutoring is actually playing [[Infernal Tutor]] again! The EPIC Storm has recently undergone a large shift thanks to some dedicated testing focused on how to stay competitive in the current Legacy metagame. It all began with the adoption of [[Mishra's Bauble]] over [[Ponder]] — a change brought about by the recognition of Read More »

Tapping back into Modern Storm — Lotus Breach

Lotus Breach

As many of us acutely know for a while now, Storm-based decks have been on the decline for years in Modern with the main exception being the brief rise early this year of Gruul Storm utilizing the power of [[Underworld Breach]], [[Goblin Anarchomancer]] and [[Dragon’s Rage Channeler]]. While it has already been around in the Read More »

Matchup Mulligan: BR Reanimator III

Matchup Mulligan

Final 8-Cast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) [[Dark Ritual|]] [[Lotus Petal|]] [[Mox Opal|]] [[Lion's Eye Diamond|]] [[Rite of Flame|]] [[Burning Wish|]] [[Taiga|]] » Keep or Mulligan? Keep A common play-pattern as 8-Cast against The EPIC Storm is to play [[Chalice of the Void]] with one counter. The hand above is capable of Read More »

Through the Looking Glass: BR Reanimator with John Shindledecker

Through the Looking Glass

Special Guest A few words on John Shindledecker: (Twitter: @shindymtg | MTGO:shindy) John Shindledecker ("Shindy") has been playing Magic since the age of 13 (original Theros). When I picked up Legacy for the first time a few years into my Magic career, I immediately fell in love with the Reanimator archetype. A veteran of the Read More »

The EPIC Legacy Tier List — Q2 ’23

Tier List

With the Legacy Showcase coming this weekend, understanding the metagame is critical. This is the start of a quarterly tier list article series. Methodology Everyone builds a tier list differently. I have chosen to build mine based on MTGO Challenge results (As collected by Joe Dyer and the Legacy Data Collection Discord). A data driven Read More »