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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Final 8-Cast Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Dark Ritual Dark Ritual Ad Nauseam Underground Sea Lotus Petal Orim’s Chant Galvanic Relay Keep or Mulligan? Keep While this hand doesn’t beat their Chalice of the Void draws, it certainly can combat the eight “Force ...
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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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Final Lands Hand Answer Hand No. 10: (on the draw) Ponder Brainstorm Abrupt Decay Badlands Scalding Tarn Lotus Petal Rite of Flame Keep or Mulligan? Keep One of the most crucial components to the Lands matchup is being able to answer Sphere of Resistance when on the draw, and this hand does ...
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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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Modern Horizons 2 has reshaped the landscape of Legacy in the fourth months it has been legal. For The EPIC Storm, the set provided the best removal spell ever printed, Prismatic Ending, and an incredible new engine Galvanic Relay. In my set review article, I call out Galvanic Relay as a ...
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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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