Originally Posted by
Cire
At least for FTW's list, I think it is incorrect to think of this as a storm list. It's not it's just a three card combo. What makes it competitive is that it is a very cheap 3 card combo (2 mana) and that a lot of its pieces have redundancy and are easily tutor-able (Enlightened for Breach and LED, Entomb for Brainfreeze and LED, Tome Scour for Brainfreeze, Gamble if necessary, Infernal for Breach, etc). This makes assembling the 3 card combo surprisingly easy and the deck can go off turn 3 with protection extremely often. Now, Pdingo's list is more Storm based and I haven't tested it or even goldfished it so I can state how similar it plays to TES etc.