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TES Matchup Battles: The EPIC Gamble

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The EPIC Gamble is virtually a mono-red Storm deck. The only non-red card in the main deck is Echo of Eons and some sideboard cards that they can Burning Wish for. The deck is comprised of rituals, card generation, and tutors. The recipe of a typical storm deck, but the main difference is being ...

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TES Matchup Battles: 4C Minsc Control

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4C Minsc Control is a deck with an accurate name. It is a four-control control deck without black cards that is centered around Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes. In typical control fashion, it plays lots of removal spells with Swords to Plowshares and Prismatic Ending, counterspells, card draw, ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Merfolk

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Merfolk has been around for a long time and a classic to the Legacy format, ever since the first Merfolk lords were printed. Over time more Merfolk cards were printed, and that continued to improve the deck to keep up with the format. With the additions of Aether Vial, Force of Will, and ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Death’s Shadow II

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Death’s Shadow plays similar to a Delver of Secrets style deck, but with Death’s Shadow in that role. It is a blue-black deck that plays creature removal, discard spells, counterspells, and creatures,such as Death’s Shadow, that can win the game quickly. In order to play ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Jeskai Control

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Jeskai Control plays all of the typical control cards in counterspells, card draw, planeswalkers, and removal spells. The deck, which ultimately wins the game with Monastery Mentor, has become the main control deck of the format since the printing of Expressive Iteration and Prismatic Ending. ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Moon Stompy II

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Moon Stompy is named after playing Magus of the Moon and Blood Moon with aggressive creatures like Legion Warboss and Goblin Rabblemaster. In addition to turning off the opponent’s lands, Moon Stompy also uses Chalice of the Void and Trinisphere to prevent the opponent from casting ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Elves II

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Elves is an creature based combo deck, obviously built around the Elf creature type. The main cards it’s trying to abuse are Glimpse of Nature, Gaea’s Cradle, and Natural Order. They also play a tutor package with Natural Order and Glimpse of Nature to search for any disruptive ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Ad Nauseam Tendrils II

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Ad Nauseam Tendrils is a deck like TES trying to win with the Storm mechanic using Tendrils of Agony. The main difference is Ad Nauseam Tendrils is built to be a little slower of a deck, using cards like Cabal Ritual and Past in Flames, to play into the later turns of a game. It...

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TES Matchup Battles: Sneak & Show II

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Sneak & Show is a deck that focuses on casting and abusing Show and Tell and Sneak Attack in combination with Griselbrand, and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn making the opponent sacrifice six permanents, or Griselbrand drawing many cards to find an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn ...

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TES Matchup Battles: Painter

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Painter is a deck that revolves around the card Painter’s Servant and Grindstone. Painter’s Servant chooses a color, and then all cards become that color. When you then activate Grindstone, you can continue repeating the process because the cards share at least one color since they ...

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TES Matchup Battles: 8-Cast

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8-Cast is the evolution of Karn Echoes. Both are mono-blue artifact based decks that play Force of Will and Chalice of the Void. The main differences is that Karn Echos played Karn, the Great Creator with Lion’s Eye Diamond, a sideboard package, Echo of Eons and Hullbreacher to lock the ...

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