This.
Bryant changing his list to adapt to his metagame doesn't force every TES player to do the same. If any changes are clearly wrong for him, his testing should eventually make that clear....
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This.
Bryant changing his list to adapt to his metagame doesn't force every TES player to do the same. If any changes are clearly wrong for him, his testing should eventually make that clear....
The possibility of Mindbreak Trap is often much better than the actual card. The possibility of MBT in post-board games can mean storm players give you a little more time by playing around it....
ANT typically has fewer main lines of play than TES (Ad Nauseum into Tendrils, rituals/Tutor chain into Tendrils, PiF into Tendrils - although Empty main is becoming a thing) compared to TES (which...
There are many cards which would be nice to have in the wishboard, but there's only room for 15. Sure, it would be nice to have access to Eye of Nowhere for the occasional cases where it's useful,...
For PiF to work out, you need to find an answer in 9 cards.
For DR to work out, you need a good new hand AND for the opponent to not get a new hand that disrupts yours. I don't think this is as...
One of the things I like about TES is it forces many opponents into something of a catch-22. If they board out creature removal, they're vulnerable to Empty. If they keep it in, they have a dead card...
re: PiF, as Tammit67 says it's useful in longer games against decks with discard and countermagic. If you aren't playing against those sorts of decks much you might not be playing the sorts of games...
Opponent on UR delver: 18 life, 3 tapped islandmountains, crucible of world in play, wasteland in GY, 5 cards in hand (which are daze, daze, FoW, stifle/snare + X)
Us: city of brass in play, petal...
I also lean towards preferring to keep a LED in play when resolving Ad Nauseum or Diminishing Returns, for two reasons:
1. Hellbent
2. It's hedge in case I can't actually go off, which particularly...
"I think these two are friends because they have the exact same 75."
Tough. Going for 10 goblins turns the game into "Do you have Force of Will?" I'm not familiar with the RUG side of the matchup, but I imagine there are keepable hands without FoW, but I'm not sure...
Looking forward to it!
This has been an interesting discussion.
I try to err against mulligans with TES - if I'm not sure then I keep. I figure that if I consistently apply this strategy and find myself losing games...
A few points, overlapping with what Lemnear has said:
- mulligans with TES are really painful. Each card your forego makes it that much harder to have initial mana sources + extra mana +...
Past in Flames is nowhere near the league of Storm spells for getting around counterspells. 3R and 4R are not trivial amounts of mana, and will usually require the use of several cards to produce...
Won a local Legacy tournament with the standard list (with 2 Duress 1 Cabal Therapy.) I didn't take detailed notes, so here are some of the more interesting moments from memory (my recollection might...
Why is there a focus on turn 1 or 2? Because you're pretty much guaranteed to get a turn 1 and 2 versus burn. Sometimes on turn 3, and mostly on turn 4, you'll get burnt out if you haven't won the...
(Bolded the part I think is especially useful.)
Undisrupted burn will consistently deal around 20 by turn 4. Between probes and our lands, and given a good hand for burn, they can be in striking...
Silence isn't great against burn, but there's more to it than this. If they have a hand of non-instants and fireblasts, it can be a time walk to get you another turn so you can play another land and...
1) Most likely yes.
2) This hand is missing additional mana and a tutor, and searching for two things is not great. However, it has a duress and multiple blue spells to sculpt a new hand with. It's...
For the purposes of learning the deck, you might want to try just going for it with hands like this more often. You're on the play, and as soon as your opponent gets a turn that opens up Spell...
Goldfishing only goes so far in terms of getting you ready to play live opponents. I'm guessing that maybe you don't have many opportunities outside live opponents to test? If you want to keep...
"Last time I had a TES mirror I kept Empty in when on the play, and boarded it out (and one Infernal) for Tendrils on the draw. I reasoned that an early Empty could still be fast enough to win on the...
Last time I had a TES mirror I kept Empty in when on the play, and boarded it out (and one Infernal) for Tendrils on the draw. I reasoned that an early Empty could still be fast enough to win on the...
Burn, and perhaps Goblins, might have Pyrostatic Pillar