Lands gets its name from the entire deck being based around lands. Land tutors, assembling land combos, using lands to disrupt the opponent, ramping with lands, and even generating card advantage with lands from one of the more important cards, Life from the Loam. Ultimately, it wins by trying ...
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1. What is 8-Cast? Chalice of the Void Thought Monitor Force of Will 8-Cast is the evolution to one of the scariest matchups for The EPIC Storm: Karn Echoes. Both are mono-blue artifact decks that play Force of Will and Chalice of the Void. Karn Echoes also played Karn, the Great Creator, which ...
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Final Aluren Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Dark Ritual Dark Ritual Ad Nauseam Underground Sea Burning Wish Tendrils of Agony Rite of Flame Keep or Mulligan? Keep What does this hand do well? It dodges Force of Vigor entirely. What it doesn’t do well is beat four to seven ...
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Final Madness Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Lotus Petal Dark Ritual Lion’s Eye Diamond Wishclaw Talisman Prismatic Ending Ad Nauseam Burning Wish Keep or Mulligan? Keep This is one of those hands where you need to just accept if your opponent has one of their two copies of ...
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Aluren is a creature-based deck trying to abuse Aluren. They can do this by playing creatures for free and at instant speed to generate card and mana advantage or by winning through a combo. There are two different combinations that win the game with an Aluren in play. The first is with Cavern ...
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Jeskai Ragavan is a midrange deck made up of counterspells, removal spells, and cheap creatures with the main one being Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer. Ever since its printing, many decks have been trying to use Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, and the Jeskai shell seems to be doing it the best. Jeskai ...
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Madness is a deck looking to abuse the Madness mechanic, discarding cards from their hand. The goal is to try to get cards like Blazing Rootwalla, Hollow One, and Anje’s Ravager into play for free or cheaply. They can do this quickly by using cheap discard effects to get these creatures ...
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Final Bant Control Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play) Echo of Eons Lion’s Eye Diamond Lotus Petal Brainstorm Mox Opal Burning Wish Galvanic Relay Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand looks much better than it actually is, there’s some natural friction happening that may not be ...
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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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Final UR Delver Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Galvanic Relay Galvanic Relay Abrupt Decay Aeve, Progenitor Ooze Volcanic Island Bloodstained Mire Bloodstained Mire Keep or Mulligan? Keep This hand isn’t perfect, but we do have Abrupt Decay to slow the game down. I would lead the ...
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Final GW Depths Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the play — mulliganed twice) Burning Wish Dark Ritual Mishra’s Bauble Mishra’s Bauble Mox Opal Ponder Brainstorm Keep or Mulligan? Keep Honestly, I’m not sure how much better a four-card hand would be outside of having exactly the ...
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UR Delver is made up of cantrips, burn spells, aggressive creatures, and counterspells. Its game plan is to try to and play an early aggressive creature and then use counterspells and burn spells to disrupt the opponent enough to end the game quickly. Dragon’s Rage Channeler, Ragavan, ...
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