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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Special Guest A few words on Aldrich Saplan (Twitter: @Dopedafi | MTGO: Dopedafi | Instagram: drizz_707) Aldrich Saplan is a longtime MTG competitor from the Bay Area in California where he grew up and has lived his whole life. He’s been playing since Ice Age and loves to play aggressive tempo ...
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Mox Opal What is The EPIC Storm? The EPIC Storm (TES) is a Legacy deck with win conditions utilizing the Storm mechanic. Over time these win conditions have changed. In recent years, the primary win condition has changed from Empty the Warrens to Tendrils of Agony! In current lists of TES, an ...
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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 ...
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Traditionally in Legacy, any playable combo deck must be able to beat a Force of Will. Some combo decks play Force of Will like Sneak & Show and Doomsday. Storm decks of the past have avoided playing the best counter spell in Magic for a few reasons. Lion’s Eye Diamond and Infernal ...
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Special Guest A few words on Brian Coval: (Twitter: @BoshNRoll | MTGO: Bosh N Roll) Brian has been playing Magic: the Gathering since 1997 and specializes in non-rotating “Eternal” constructed formats (Vintage, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper). He is a Star City Games Invitational ...
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The EPIC Storm (TES) has a long history of playing as many colors as it needs to access all of the effects that are relevant for a given metagame. In more recent times, TES has been a three-color deck and then a four-color deck with the adoption of Veil of Summer. Modern Horizons II has...
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Last month I played my “new list” to a second place finish at Mythic Games. This month, I did the same exact thing. I’ve been playing in two local events a week with the deck as well as a bunch of games online and have been having a lot of success. I think for the...
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I end up coming home from college (it’s my first year) and when I get there, it turns out that the Japanese Abeyance I ordered came in! I begin to goldfish my list for when Ponder is released from Lorwyn using Serum Visions as proxies. In order to add in the slots, I had to...
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I decided to stay at college the night before needed to wake up at 7AM to begin the drive to Syracuse to meet up with The EPIC Syndicate. I get to Adam Barnello’s by 8:45AM and we’re off! We had decided to start a new tradition on the ride down. If someone in the car...
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At the last Jupiter Games event I went to I was running a few sideboard Xantid Swarm — they kicked ass. However, I still missed Pyroblast. I decided that I wanted to run both, but there wasn’t enough room in the sideboard. This meant if I wanted to play Xantid Swarm I would have to...
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