Elves is an aggro/combo engine deck that uses synergy and many small incremental advantages to build up an enormous amount of cards and mana, like storm, in order to play giant monsters and win the game in a single turn. However, while elves is most commonly known for its ability to combo off ...
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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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Eldrazi is a fairly new deck thanks to the recent Eldrazi additions from Oath of the Gatewatch. The “Stompy” archetype itself has been around for a very long time and its plan is to use fast mana to accelerate out lock pieces, and then follow them up with a fast clock to pressure ...
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4c Pile Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep Correctly, most people determined this is a keep. However, I think it is’t an immediate decision. What this hand needs is a “tutor effect”, specifically Infernal Tutor since we’re short on initial ...
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Turbo Depths is a combo deck that tries to generate a Marit Lage token (20/20 Flying Indestructible) by either removing all of the counters with Vampire Hexmage or by creating a copy of Dark Depths with 0 counters using Thespian’s Stage. They try to do this very quickly (hence the name ...
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Miracles Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan In the responses to the last article, players were unsure if this was a keep or a mulligan. I saw a lot of answers on both sides. In my opinion, it’s ultimately a mulligan. In the last article we talked about how ...
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Lands Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep This is a keep, but a hesitant “loose” keep. I was actually somewhat shocked that no one else found the same way, I think the issue is/was not taking enough time to properly analyze the hand. The most common ...
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Aluren is an archetype based around, and abusing, the card Aluren. It does this by having an instant speed combo, and a lot of value creatures to make removal spells worse. The combo is to resolve an Aluren to play Parasitic Strix + Cavern Harpy to return the Parasitic Strix, and then use the ...
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This episode we take on Dredge! Dredge is a deck that abuses the Ravnica’s Golgari Guild mechanic: Dredge X (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly X cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw...
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Before we get started with Lands, here’s the answer from last month’s Sneak & Show article: Sneak & Show Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan This hand was even tough for me to decide, I want to keep it but ultimately it’s a mulligan. ...
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It is time for yet another edition of the TES Matchup Battles series and this episode we take on Moon Stompy! Moon Stompy is a prison aggro deck. It uses different lock pieces to disrupt the opponent’s mana and making it more difficult to cast their spells. Moon Stompy then follows up ...
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Before we get started with Sneak & Show, here’s the answer from last month’s Grixis Delver article: Grixis Delver Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep You have roughly a 64% chance of hitting what you need off of Gitaxian Probe. These cards are: 4 ...
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