About a week ago, I was looking for a ride to Hadley, MA and was trying to get some of my teammates to go — that wasn’t happening. I was trying to persuade Zach Tartell into coming, when I said this: Entry fee is $10 and gas will be around $15. You can’t afford 25$...
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Maverick is a green-white-based creature deck. The creatures are used to be disruptive, aggressive, and to combat the opponent’s strategy. Maverick plays many different creatures, so it plays four copies of Green Sun’s Zenith to help find the appropriate creature for any given ...
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At 7:30AM my alarm goes off and I prepare for another Jupiter Games event. When I arrive to the store, I get dragged into a debate on whether or not Preordain or Ponder is better in combo, it’s essentially card quality versus quantity. My issue is that, in combo, there is no such thing as...
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The Early Years | 2006 — 2008 Trinket Mage Priest of Gix Empty the Warrens Let’s be perfectly honest, The EPIC Storm (TES) had very humble beginnings — dating all the way back to 2006. At the time, Bryant Cook became fascinated with Storm combo playing everything from Nausea in Legacy (Helm of ...
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BR Reanimator is an accurate name to describe this deck. It’s a red and black deck that’s trying to put a Griselbrand and other expensive creatures into play from the graveyard. It does this by using cards like Faithless Looting, Entomb, Reanimate, and Exhume. By using cheap spells ...
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Madness is a deck looking to abuse the Madness mechanic, discarding cards from their hand. The goal is to try to get cards like Blazing Rootwalla, Hollow One, and Anje’s Ravager into play for free or cheaply. They can do this quickly by using cheap discard effects to get these creatures ...
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Final Bant Control Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Echo of Eons Lion’s Eye Diamond Lotus Petal Brainstorm Mox Opal Burning Wish Galvanic Relay » Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand looks much better than it actually is, there’s some natural friction happening that may not be ...
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8-Cast is the evolution of Karn Echoes. Both are mono-blue artifact based decks that play Force of Will and Chalice of the Void. The main differences is that Karn Echos played Karn, the Great Creator with Lion’s Eye Diamond, a sideboard package, Echo of Eons and Hullbreacher to lock the ...
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The combo turn of The EPIC Storm is one of the most fun parts of the deck. It also has many little twists and turns once one decides to go off. Keeping one’s options open is the key to winning the most games over time. This article looks at all of the ways to keep...
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Merfolk has been around for a long time and a classic to the Legacy format, ever since the first Merfolk lords were printed. Over time more Merfolk cards were printed, and that continued to improve the deck to keep up with the format. With the additions of Aether Vial, Force of Will, and ...
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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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Since the initiative mechanic has been released there have been many different decks trying to utilize it. Mono-white, Esper control, mono-black, and now Gruul decks have attempted to leverage the mechanic. Gruul Initiative is a red-green stompy deck playing eight copies of initiative creatures ...
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