Reanimator is a type of deck that has seen play in every format since the early days of Magic’s history. The strategy is to put an expensive creature into the graveyard and then put it into play with cards like Reanimate, Exhume, and Animate Dead. The creatures they are trying to ...
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Final 8-Cast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Dark Ritual Lotus Petal Mox Opal Lion’s Eye Diamond Rite of Flame Burning Wish Taiga Keep or Mulligan? Keep A common play-pattern as 8-Cast against The EPIC Storm is to play Chalice of the Void with one counter. The hand above is capable ...
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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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8 Cast is a deck named appropriately for playing eight cards like Thoughtcast in four copies of Thoughtcast and four copies of Thought Monitor. It’s a slower artifact deck that aims to out card advantage the opponent with eight copies of cards that draw two cards, Emry, Lurker of the ...
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Final Gruul Initiative Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Ad Nauseam Brainstorm Lion’s Eye Diamond Mishra’s Bauble Mox Opal Dark Ritual Bloodstained Mire Keep or Mulligan? Keep The “old” Brainstorm plus Mishra’s Bauble trick! We’re going to use ...
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Special Guest A few words on Dmitriy Butakov: (Twitter: @butakov_mtg | MTGO:butakov) Dmitriy Butakov is a pro Magic player and two-time MOCS champion based out of Siberia. A long-time MTGO grinder, Dmitriy has four Legacy Challenge T8s this year, all on 8-Cast. What main deck tools does 8-Cast ...
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Since the initiative mechanic has been released there have been many different decks trying to utilize it. Mono-white, Esper control, mono-black, and now Gruul decks have attempted to leverage the mechanic. Gruul Initiative is a red-green stompy deck playing eight copies of initiative creatures ...
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Despite the recent appearance of Gruul Storm in Modern, it has been a couple years since Izzet Gifts Ungiven-based Storm has had much in the way of results. One part of this is the lack of new cards from the past few years of sets. For instance, the most significant new addition to the deck...
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Final Cephalid Breakfast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Lotus Petal Lotus Petal Dark Ritual Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Badlands Mox Opal Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan While the pair of Mishra’s Bauble represents a pair of redraws, we need a hand with more of a plan ...
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Special Guest A few words on Andrew Ahern: Andrew Ahern is a NYC-metro area local who has been playing Legacy since 2018. An avid deckbuilder (his first Legacy deck was a Worldgorger Dragon homebrew), Andrew has become locally famous his pile of Gruul cards that (until recently) haven’t ...
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Cephalid Breakfast is an Esper combo deck that is based around Cephalid Illusionist. When Cephalid Illusionist is targeted by either a Shuko or Nomads en-Kor then three cards will be milled into the graveyard. This will be repeated until the entire deck has been milled into the graveyard. In ...
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As the Pioneer format has come into its own over the past couple years, one deck in particular has been at the top as the premier combo deck of the format. That deck is Lotus Field Combo. The main engine in the deck is to get a Lotus Field into play and then create a...
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