The EPIC Storm is taking a big step forward with v13.7 to address the meta shifts that Legacy has seen over the past months. With the addition of Initiative cards to MTGO and a larger player focus on Initiative decks, it was time to change. The EPIC Storm has evolved over the past couple months...
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Interacting with The EPIC Storm does not always happen directly on the stack. Often opponents will bring lock pieces and other hateful permanents to the table in an attempt to slow TES down or prevent it from winning at all. These cards present the Storm player with two main options: remove the ...
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Final Initiative Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Burning Wish Rite of Flame Crash Chain of Vapor Lion’s Eye Diamond Mox Opal Brainstorm Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan While tempting due to the Crash and Chain of Vapor, we just need to send this hand back. We can’t cast any ...
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Special Guest A few words on Max Carini: (Twitter: @wonderpreaux | MTGO: wonderPreaux) Max Carini is an IT auditor hailing from the Bay Area and a self-described “rectangles-with-text” hobbyist. After watching Ad Nauseam resolve during coverage of an SCG Open in 2014, Max decided to wade into ...
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The 2022 Eternal Weekend events have come and gone, and a lot happening in all three Legacy events. There’s nothing quite like a major event to stir up excitement with players getting to bring their “A” game against other devoted Magic players. With two in-person events (Asia ...
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Combo decks in Legacy often get called non-interactive. With Storm, this could not be further from the truth. Usually, between four and eight slots are devoted to interacting in some way with the opponent. The EPIC Storm has played a variety of interaction pieces over the years and ...
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https://twitter.com/unhingedbasic/status/1599163162137624576 Competitive EDH (cEDH, pronounced Seee-Dee-H) is the competitive-player-driven project to use the rules and card pool just as they are in regular Commander (EDH) in games of four players who are all trying approximately their hardest ...
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Final The EPIC Gamble Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Wishclaw Talisman Lion’s Eye Diamond Lion’s Eye Diamond Ad Nauseam Underground Sea Burning Wish Chain of Vapor Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan Even if you’re fortune enough to receive a turn in the Storm mirror against a ...
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Special Guest A few words on Peter van der Ham: (Twitter: @PVDH_Magic | MTGO: Maraxus_of_NL) Peter “PVDH” van der Ham, from the small town of Gorinchem in the Netherlands, has been playing Magic the Gathering since 1999 and Legacy competitively since 2007. While a big aficionado of ...
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Every so often, Legacy reaches beyond its devoted player base and draws the attention of other Magic players to this awesome format. Now is one of those times. Eternal Weekend is back! Wizards of the Coast announced the return of the beloved in-person events this year (mostly in-person, sorry ...
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One of the most important skills in Magic is figuring out what one’s opponent has in hand. For The EPIC Storm, most games are played in the hand rather than the battlefield. Knowing what the opponent can have in their deck and what that means about there hand is often the difference ...
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Final 4c Minsc Control Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Mox Opal Chrome Mox Brainstorm Burning Wish Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan In the previous article, we discussed the importance of stability as well as leveraging Galvanic ...
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