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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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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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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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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Hey! We’re back with another Matchup Mulligan! This series goes over 10 opening hands, 5 pre-board and 5 post-board opening hands. The hands are not random, they’ve been sculpted by me for the purpose of these exercises. Pre-board Hand 1: (on the draw) Keep or Mulligan? Mulligan ...
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Hey! We’re back with the second Matchup Mulligan! Let’s dive in. This series will go over 10 opening hands, 5 pre-board and 5 post-board with the same numbers for being on the play or drawing first. The hands are not random, they’ve been sculpted by me for the purpose of these ...
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Something I’ve been working on in recent months is cracking down on myself about mulligans. In the past, I’ve been very lazy and unwilling or even afraid to go down to six or five. But the truth of the matter is aggressive mulliganing in certain matchups will result in more game ...
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Contextualizing the Sideboard Today we are talking about the sideboard. We aren’t going to rehash specific matchup analysis which is covered extensively elsewhere on this site: Bryant’s sideboard guide and AJ’s matchup analysis. Instead we are going to take a high level look at how and why ...
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