Grixis Phoenix Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan If you were smart enough to ignore my sideboarding advice and decided to keep in Empty the Warrens, I think this is a soft keep. The issue is that the Arclight Phoenix decks have anywhere between three and five answers ...
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Turbo Depths Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan Yes, we’re on the draw and have roughly 17 live draws (9 that flat out win the game), which is about 33% to win the game for every draw step. The big issue here is that we’re on the draw and that discard...
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4c Loam Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I’m a little shocked by the number of people that thought this hand was a mulligan. Burning Wish represents both an answer to Chalice of the Void (assuming you draw another Mountain or fetchland) as well as an answer ...
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Dredge Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep This isn’t a fast hand, which is an issue. That said, you’re on the play with a discard spell on the first turn which should buy you a little bit of time. What’s interesting with this hand to me is that it ...
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Grixis Control Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I would likely keep this hand, but I wouldn’t just jam on the first turn if I drew a land. I would cast Duress. Your opponent likely has Flusterstorm, Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, and Force of Will, ...
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Death’s Shadow Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I would hope most people would keep this, but recently I’ve found less experienced players addressing their concerns about keeping “no-land hands” against blue decks. I think this comes from the Ad ...
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Burn Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I read a lot of back and forth on this hand. While I’m not sure of a definite answer, I’d probably keep it knowing I had a scry and a draw step to help fix things. The downside is the earliest you can...
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RUG Delver Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I’m a risk taker, you need to find a land and then either a black or red card off of Brainstorm. I like my chances for this (I’ll be honest, I don’t know the exact odds.), there’s also other ...
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BR Reanimator Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Most people correctly answered that this was a keep. This article’s theme will be “Do not live in fear”, and this is a great example of that. While your opponent could have a discard spell or ...
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Moon Stompy Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep Most people correctly answered that this hand is a keep and that’s great. However, about half of these individuals missed a crucial line. With your first Gitaxian Probe if you hit a blue-producing land, ...
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Elves Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? I read a few responses saying they thought this hand was a mulligan due to multiple copies of Chrome Mox, no blue source, and no real business spell. Well, I disagree. The blue source can be issues by drawing any land either fron ...
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Eldrazi Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan The crowd seemed to be split 50/50 on this decision, which is good, it means people are thinking about these! That said, to me, it’s a Mulligan. If you were to keep this hand, the correct line of play would be to ...
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