…and to think on Wednesday afternoon I was telling Jerry Mee (host of Leaving A Legacy) I wasn’t sure If I wanted to go. I had just checked how long it would take me to get to Acton, MA from Syracuse, NY. In the northeast there’s really only two seasons – winter & ...
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Bant Control is an iteration of the previous Snow Control decks that’s using green for cards like Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath, Endurance, Ice-Fang Coatl, and other sideboard cards. The recent printing of Endurance has pushed these previous Snow Control decks from Jeskai or four ...
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In the weeks leading up to The Legacy Pit Open, I have been “heating-up” so-to-speak after a prolonged slump. With the addition of some powerful white cards to The EPIC Storm (TES), which you can read about below, I was feeling very confident heading into this weekend. I traveled ...
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Welcome to Pauper, the format with most of the fun fast mana of Legacy, but without the unfun answers like Force of Will, Chalice of the Void, and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. The Storm mechanic has had a complicated history in Pauper, with most of the Storm cards that can directly win the ...
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Painter is a deck that revolves around the card Painter’s Servant and Grindstone. Painter’s Servant chooses a color, and then all cards become that color. When you then activate Grindstone, you can continue repeating the process because the cards share at least one color since they ...
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Necrodominance Necrodominance Necrodominance Legendary Enchantment Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards. Your maximum hand size is five. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it ...
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This is part of an (approximately) quarterly tier list article series. Methodology Everyone builds tier lists differently. Mine is based on Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenge results (As collected by Joe Dyer and the Legacy Data Collection Discord). The data-driven approach helps ...
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Today we will be looking at scenarios from the past month played with v12.5 of The EPIC Storm. This is an awesome new update to the deck that incorporates white as our fifth color. With the continued dominance of Modern Horizons 2 cards, Legacy looks a little different compared to its recent ...
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Peer into the Abyss might surprise as a candidate for inclusion in The EPIC Storm. At seven mana, one might think that any line involving it would be prohibitively expensive and casting Ad Nauseam to unreliable. The second point certainly is valid, and thus, it would be relegated to being ...
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Special Guest Tse Shuen Wan (@LynnChalice) Tse Shuen Wan, better known on MTGO as LynnChalice, is a Singapore born software developer based in Toronto. Shuen has devoted a large portion of his time in Legacy brewing and piloting all flavors of blue control. Despite being somewhat of a newcomer ...
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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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Every Cdeh tweet from you makes me more and more interested in the format. — Dinglis (@unhingedbasic) December 3, 2022 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 ...
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