Goodbye Grief! Wizards of the Coast has finally taken action in Legacy (and several other formats) to return to a healthier metagame. Grief, along with the most maligned portions of the Dimir Rescaminator deck, has been removed from Legacy. Don’t get it twisted, though—Dimir Tempo still ...
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Good Grief! Legacy is in an interesting (and potentially unfortunate) spot right now. With a “no changes” format update in the most recent Banned & Restricted announcement, many Magic: The Gathering players are crying out against a “Lame Duck” format. The purported ...
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Goodness gracious. Is The EPIC Storm (TES) a Control deck now? Let’s discuss. Two major things have happened in the last month of Legacy. First, TES started playing a full set of Force of Will. The second is all cards that introduce stickers or Attractions to the game are banned. ...
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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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The EPIC Storm puts two pilots into a Challenge Top 8! What a fantastic headline, right? There is a lot to unpack with that title though. Let’s start basic. Daybreak Games, the company that manages the MTGO client, added several evening Challenge events (using US-based time zones) for the ...
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SCG CON Philadelphia has never looked so good! Our very own Bryant Cook rose to the challenge and put up a Top 8 finish on March 10th. The deck he played? The EPIC Storm, of course! Let’s break down the updates to the deck and why. Since the release of Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM),...
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The first 2024 set release Murders at Karlov Manor. It was a fairly benign release with little initial fanfare in eternal formats aside from Pick Your Poison. But that all quickly changed! There are eternal format playable cards like Leyline of the Guildpact in Temur Rhinos, Cryptic Coat in ...
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Last year, I set out to write a comprehensive primer for The EPIC Storm (TES). I could not have anticipated how much the deck would change after just one set release. Beseech the Mirror obsoleted the primary engine of the deck and added several more, almost transforming TES entirely. Check out ...
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Welcome to the new year! 2024 kicked off slowly for Legacy Magic — a nice change of pace from the frantic prepping and testing that occurred before Eternal Weekends worldwide. What a series of events! Eternal Weekend proved that eternal Magic is alive and thriving. Beyond that, it showcased our ...
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Our Super Bowls have begun! Eternal Weekend Prague (Europe), Aichi (Japan), and Pittsburg (United States) are the premier Legacy events of the year. Magic players of all kinds will gather to sling the oldest cards of the game’s history in the hopes of walking away with an original Magic ...
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Who would have thought that the past few months would have been a place of massive Combo deck building and brewing in Legacy? Starting with the unbanning of Mind’s Desire and continuing with Pair o’ Dice Lost finally making its way to MTGO, we also get a brand new card that has ...
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Mind’s Desire. A tool that Storm fans have dreamt about for years. Not since 2015 has Legacy experienced an unbanning: back then the community got to play with Worldgorger Dragon and Black Vise again. Players have been swept by a wave of excitement! New and old Storm decks alike are ...
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