A Black Lotus event right in my own back yard! I felt ready and confident after my recent changes to The EPIC Storm (TES). the epic Storm Main Deck 4 Burning Wish 3 Infernal Tutor 2 Mystical Tutor 4 Brainstorm 4 Ponder 1 Empty the Warrens 1 Tendrils of Agony 1 Ad Nauseam 4 Duress...
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At the last Jupiter Games event I went to I was running a few sideboard Xantid Swarm — they kicked ass. However, I still missed Pyroblast. I decided that I wanted to run both, but there wasn’t enough room in the sideboard. This meant if I wanted to play Xantid Swarm I would have to...
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After the event last month, I was in a pretty bad car accident. I’m fine but my car was in bad shape, my only goal for this event was to win some cash. I rode with The EPIC Syndicate to the event and received the two Japanese foil Deathmark that I ordered when I arrived!...
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I decided to stay at college the night before needed to wake up at 7AM to begin the drive to Syracuse to meet up with The EPIC Syndicate. I get to Adam Barnello’s by 8:45AM and we’re off! We had decided to start a new tradition on the ride down. If someone in the car...
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The EPIC Syndicate was supposed to get together the night before to test for the event, because that’s what real teams do. That’s not what we did, the team has good intentions which eventually lead to us just playing Elder Dragon Highlander and Skittles. It went way later than we ...
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About two weeks ago, I was testing against Geoff Smelski (konsultant) and Geoff was just destroying me with Landstill. The issue wasn’t being over-loaded against too many counterspells or being outdrawn, it was that Ad Nauseam kept on failing. I knew I needed to make a change (see below). ...
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Alright, fare warning: I didn’t have any truly difficult match-ups — I accept this. Originally, I wasn’t going to write a report, because of that, I didn’t take very good notes. the epic Storm Main Deck 4 Burning Wish 4 Infernal Tutor 4 Brainstorm 3 Ponder 4 Orim’s ...
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About a week ago, I was looking for a ride to Hadley, MA and was trying to get some of my teammates to go — that wasn’t happening. I was trying to persuade Zach Tartell into coming, when I said this: Entry fee is $10 and gas will be around $15. You can’t afford 25$...
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I end up coming home from college (it’s my first year) and when I get there, it turns out that the Japanese Abeyance I ordered came in! I begin to goldfish my list for when Ponder is released from Lorwyn using Serum Visions as proxies. In order to add in the slots, I had to...
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My tournament report from the Northern Virginian Legacy Draft event! I opted to play a deck I am quite familiar with and understand — The EPIC Storm. After Kadilak’s Dual Land Draft I decided I needed a new sideboarding plan. I decided that I needed “blasts” (Pyroblast and Red ...
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I wake up to get ready for school when my mom tells me, “You have a two-hour delay, also, happy birthday!” I go back to bed with no intention of going to school that day. I wake up hours later but am now excited for my trip to Connecticut! Before I know it, it’s almost...
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The weekend begins as I wait in line at the bank, that’s when my phone rings, “Hey, you ready to pick me up?” and I reply back “Yeah, I’ll be there in 20.” as I go to pick up my childhood best-friend Pat. In the car on the way home, I ask Pat if he’s...
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