TES Matchup Battles: 4c Control II
4c Control is a control deck that’s trying to use all of the best disruptive cards like Thoughtseize, Force of Will, Snapcaster Mage, and planeswalkers. There are many flavors of 4c Control, but with the recent printing of Wrenn and Six most are traditional Grixis Control decks, but ...
Read MoreTES Matchup Battles: Grixis Delver II
Grixis Delver’s primary game plan is to stick an early threat, such as Delver of Secrets or Young Pyromancer, and use cards like Daze and Wasteland to disrupt the opponent’s initial development while killing the opponent quickly. There are, and have been, many different flavors of Delver ...
Read MoreThe STORM Count: Ad Nauseam and Expected Value
Today, we are going to look at the exact numbers behind one of the biggest strengths of The EPIC Storm (TES), especially when compared to Ad Nauseam Tendrils (ANT): the card Ad Nauseam itself! The Math The expected value of a random event is analogous to a mean, also known as an average. It has...
Read MoreTES Matchup Battles: Eldrazi Ramp
Eldrazi and ramp decks have existed ever since the printings of Cloudpost and Glimmerpost and the Eldrazi in legacy, and even in modern while they were legal. The goal is to assemble these posts along with artifact mana to accelerate out bigger expensive cards like Ugin, The Spirit Dragon and ...
Read MoreDevelopment and Progress: The EPIC Storm moving forward
”Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”-Benjamin Franklin In a game of variance, there is no one true way to determine the best iteration of a deck. As metagames shift and adapt, one must also adapt the list they are playing ...
Read MoreMatchup Mulligan: Maverick
UW Stoneblade Final Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the play) Keep or Mulligan? Keep I was a little shocked at how many of you would mulligan this hand, you’re only an initial mana source away from winning while being protected by our best disruption spell. I would lead off on Chrome Mox ...
Read MoreMatchup Mulligan: UW Stoneblade
UR Delver Hand Answer Hand 10: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Keep Most people correctly answered this scenario. With a scry and being on the draw, your odds of finding a red source are much better than your odds of winning the game on five cards. It’s difficult to ask for more than a first...
Read MoreTES Matchup Battles: Death & Taxes II
Death & Taxes looks a lot like white weenie to the casual observer. In reality, D&T is a creature-based control deck that focuses on invalidating the opposing deck. The goal is to aggressively land creatures while creating a difficult time for the opponent to execute their game plan. ...
Read MoreSideboard Theory: Extirpate and Surgical Extraction
Before we dive into this article I want to introduce myself. My name is Steve Vultaggio. I am a 25-year-old Masters student living in New Orleans. Who Dat! Originally, I am from Boston, Massachusetts and am a life long Bruins and Patriots fan. I have been playing Magic the Gathering since 2000, ...
Read MoreTES Matchup Battles: UR Delver II
UR Delver is obviously a blue-red deck that combines Aggro-elements of Burn, with Tempo-elements of RUG Delver. Utilizing its red cards to be aggressive and kill the opponent quickly, and the blue cards for interaction and to be tempo based with counterspells. It can be described as a ...
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