[Deck] T.E.S. - The EPIC Storm

[oSeabass]

Random art question... if you had to pick non foil Dark Rituals for your deck, which ones would you go for. A LGS had a set of Beta Dark Rits at $25 a pop and they looked damn good. Right now I use a set of altered ones from different sets with full extended alters of the art. I use currently: Alpha/Beta art, Tempest, Ice Age, and Mirage.

I personally like the Ice Age, MM, and Alpha art the best. I know there are a lot of Dark Rits (even new FTV ones) to pimp out with. Just curious what you all use as your set?

[DarkJester]

Random art question... if you had to pick non foil Dark Rituals for your deck, which ones would you go for. A LGS had a set of Beta Dark Rits at $25 a pop and they looked damn good. Right now I use a set of altered ones from different sets with full extended alters of the art. I use currently: Alpha/Beta art, Tempest, Ice Age, and Mirage.

I personally like the Ice Age, MM, and Alpha art the best. I know there are a lot of Dark Rits (even new FTV ones) to pimp out with. Just curious what you all use as your set?

3rd Edition German BB (the Alpha/beta/unlimited/revised-Artwork). It has everything, many Skulls, a creepy black mage/lich/whatever invoking powerful magic, and the background reminds me of the stage goro's lair from MK1 But, I don't care about pimping at all. Still playing my beautiful, non-foil, full-art ponders. (maybe it's another kind of pimping, choosing the artwork which fits me most. I dislike the including of a playset with different artworks, f.e. 1 beta Ritual, 1 Ice Age-ritual....)

[Megadeus]

Random art question... if you had to pick non foil Dark Rituals for your deck, which ones would you go for. A LGS had a set of Beta Dark Rits at $25 a pop and they looked damn good. Right now I use a set of altered ones from different sets with full extended alters of the art. I use currently: Alpha/Beta art, Tempest, Ice Age, and Mirage.

I personally like the Ice Age, MM, and Alpha art the best. I know there are a lot of Dark Rits (even new FTV ones) to pimp out with. Just curious what you all use as your set?

Iplayed masques ones. I just like the art

[Jay_Gatz]

Before I got foils I played with a set of German BB rits.

[thefringthing]

I use Beta Dark Rituals.

[davelin]

Mirage for my cheap ass

[oSeabass]

I use Beta Dark Rituals.

The text on the Beta ones just looks so bad ass. I may wait til payday and snag a playset of them, cus they look slick as hell.

I dislike the including of a playset with different artworks, f.e. 1 beta Ritual, 1 Ice Age-ritual....

I normally try and go with the 4x same art/style/language etc. I think if the deck went and embraced it, it could look ok. Lorwyn Ponder, Full art, Core set, ???
Brainstorms you have: MM, Ice Age, Beatdown white border, dual decks. Dark rit you have a million choices. Couple Lotus Petals I think, some promo ones were printed???

For now I stick to 4x the same, except the Dark Rituals which are all just full art extensions of the art, so it's "pimp" and different. The Beta's though... damned... now I really want them.

[oSeabass]

"Dear storm-padawans,
don't act like the fact that this deck contains a limited number of concept-cards (mana, biz, protection) equals easy mulligans. It's not that LED and Chrome Mox have the same value in a starting grip or you have infinite time to sculpt your hand. Discard, counter(balance) and hatebears will Dismember you easily with your attitude.

Greetings"

I am still learning when and what I can keep, because I have quickly learned going down to 6, or even 5 is just going to get destroyed. Learning the %'s on drawing into my missing piece is something I still need to learn. Any tips for remembering the %s?

[Barbed Blightning]

Mirage for my cheap ass

It has the sickest flavor text though

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Random art question... if you had to pick non foil Dark Rituals for your deck, which ones would you go for.

4ED BB Messe Noir

[P-E]

japanese coldsnap theme deck are nice if you love IA art

[Tammit67]

It has the sickest flavor text though

Really? For me Tempest flavor text is easily the best:

"If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it."
—Volrath

On another topic- Bryant your updated primer is amazing. I really prefer this style of walking through your decisions instead of having a TL;DR section of +good cards -bad ones at the end. This way people will actually have to read and hopefully thereby retain some of it.

Still the best primer out there, and certainly the most frequently updated.

[Griselpuff]

My question was perhaps not phrased very well. If you empty on turn 1 and your opponent concedes, how should you sideboard? I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to read through every single report/page on this thread (it's not on the primer).

[davelin]

My question was perhaps not phrased very well. If you empty on turn 1 and your opponent concedes, how should you sideboard? I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to read through every single report/page on this thread (it's not on the primer).

Umm....don't sideboard?

[Bryant Cook]

My question was perhaps not phrased very well. If you empty on turn 1 and your opponent concedes, how should you sideboard? I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to read through every single report/page on this thread (it's not on the primer).

You don't.

Really? For me Tempest flavor text is easily the best:

On another topic- Bryant your updated primer is amazing. I really prefer this style of walking through your decisions instead of having a TL;DR section of +good cards -bad ones at the end. This way people will actually have to read and hopefully thereby retain some of it.

Still the best primer out there, and certainly the most frequently updated.

It's Japanese foil Masques or GFTO.

Also, thanks. I try to stay on top of the reports, feature matches, articles and decklists. It's a bit of a pain in the ass to update the sideboarding guide. As I've said before if there's anything that should be included let me know, it's tough to stay on top of the feature matches because I don't always watch.

[phazonmutant]

Really? For me Tempest flavor text is easily the best:

No way. Korean 4th very easily the best flavor text:

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I personally like the Ice Age, MM, and Alpha art the best. I know there are a lot of Dark Rits (even new FTV ones) to pimp out with. Just curious what you all use as your set?

I play with K 4th. The art is cool and iconic. I have to admit that I prefer Rebecca Guay's art on the MM ones. On the other hand, Korean > all.

It's Japanese foil Masques or GFTO.

Here, I found this for you:

[paeng4983]

My question was perhaps not phrased very well.

^_^
I tried my best to rephrase it.

If you empty on turn 1 and your opponent concedes, how should you sideboard?

Well, it now depends on your call.
If it happens that you know what your opponent is with, then remove cards from the main and board-in the cards as Cook suggest. Promise, trust what he had written and you wont get lost.

(it's not on the primer)

It is.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect me to read through every single report/page on this thread .

Well, yes its unreasonable to read every pages in this thread. I agree to this.
If you are going to check again the very first page of this thread, it also have a section wherein it has links to tournament report. Try to read at least the last three reports so that you will have an idea how TES does.
Also, try reading the Heart of Storm.

Before I was using four different art of Dark Rituals. Now, just beta. Currently, I'm looking for an Arabian Nights City of Brass.

Korean 4th very easily the best flavor text:

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LMAO

[Lemnear]

I heared someone wrote those HotS reports to exactly answer those kind of questions ... ;)

[Bryant Cook]

Here, I found this for you:

I said Japanese foil AND it's not even first edition.

[oSeabass]

No way. Korean 4th very easily the best flavor text:
I play with K 4th. The art is cool and iconic. I have to admit that I prefer Rebecca Guay's art on the MM ones. On the other hand, Korean > all.

Just looked up the Korean ones on Ebay..... those are real nice. That being said, Cook's Jap. Foil MM ones DOOOOO look really nice, but they're a bit "pricey". If I was spending that much on them, I might go with Alpha English.

Looking on Troll & Toad, I think it is Italian/Spanish. The copyright date makes it less cool, but the wording is awesome IMHO, "Reserva de mana!". I'm a sucker for lame ones like this, because I can stumble my way through pronouncing the words. Asian foreign languages, I cannot fake my way through.