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

[Lemnear]

Indeed. Merry Christmas to you all and loved ones. Going to remove all the "wrap" from my Christmas present ;DD

[davelin]

Updated the sideboarding guide (It's really not much different) and added a few links.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Thanks for your continuous updating of the primer. Just FYI the protection section still refers to Duress maindeck.

[Bryant Cook]

Thanks for your continuous updating of the primer. Just FYI the protection section still refers to Duress maindeck.

Believe it or not, I have a pretty busy life outside of Magic: the Gathering. I said I updated the sideboarding guide, not the entire opening post. When I find time, perhaps I'll update it.

[davelin]

Believe it or not, I have a pretty busy life outside of Magic: the Gathering. I said I updated the sideboarding guide, not the entire opening post. When I find time, perhaps I'll update it.

Didnt mean to insinuate otherwise, it wasn't an indictment of any kind.

[Bryant Cook]

Didnt mean to insinuate otherwise, it wasn't an indictment of any kind.

My apologizes, that was slightly rude of me. But when I find time, I'll finish doing the entire way. I made a couple edits to a few sections of the main post, there's still a few more to take care of.

[davelin]

My apologizes, that was slightly rude of me. But when I find time, I'll finish doing the entire way. I made a couple edits to a few sections of the main post, there's still a few more to take care of.

No worries at all, your primer, articles and reports are a real boon for wannabe storm pros like myself. We truly appreciate all of the hard work put in!

[Lemnear]

Thx for preventing my HotS Reports from vanishing in the subforum nirvana. Honorable mention in the articles-section folks

[Jay_Gatz]

My apologizes, that was slightly rude of me. But when I find time, I'll finish doing the entire way. I made a couple edits to a few sections of the main post, there's still a few more to take care of.

Bryant being rude?! That's unpossible.
Also Merry Christmas!

[halfie44]

Hey Guys

First time posting but have been following and back reading this thread for about 2 weeks now (when i started playing TES).

Just posting to say a big thanks to everyone in this thread and especially to Bryant (for the kick arse deck and primer) and Lemnear (your 5 tournament write ups have been a huge help) as after only playing legacy (goldfish and proxy) for 2 weeks I went to my first event today (20 man event) and even with a 13 card sideboard (damn xmas post) I managed to top 4 which I'm over the moon about.

Hoping to be able to contribute more towards the development of this deck in the future and to become a member of the source community.

Hope this wasn't too cheesy haha

[Lemnear]

Hey Guys

First time posting but have been following and back reading this thread for about 2 weeks now (when i started playing TES).

Just posting to say a big thanks to everyone in this thread and especially to Bryant (for the kick arse deck and primer) and Lemnear (your 5 tournament write ups have been a huge help) as after only playing legacy (goldfish and proxy) for 2 weeks I went to my first event today (20 man event) and even with a 13 card sideboard (damn xmas post) I managed to top 4 which I'm over the moon about.

Hoping to be able to contribute more towards the development of this deck in the future and to become a member of the source community.

Hope this wasn't too cheesy haha

I'm thankful for every reader who finds something valuable for their own game in those reports. No need to thank; It's a pleasure :)

[Final Fortune]

Have other people tried cutting Chrome Mox altogether for the 13th land and 2 Simian Spirit Guides? It leads to less consistent Diminishing Returns and Ad Nuaseams compared to Chrome Mox but makes much better oppening hands in general. Given Lemnear's success with 2 Chrome Mox lists and the SBing guides pention for SBing out the 3rd Chrome Mox I think it's worth looking into.

[Jay_Gatz]

Makes ad nauseam which is our go to engine and one of our major backup engines (returns) so much worse. Like unbelievably worse..

[Lemnear]

Hot News: TES made it to the Finals of the PlanetMTG.de End-of-Year event in Hanau, beating the reinging Bazaar of Moxen Champion Julian Knab in the Semis!


@Chrome Mox:
With a lot of pretty fair decks in the metagame, playing only 2 Moxen in the main and swamping such as the the SB Tropical in should work without serious problems too. I did this however in a metagame with lots of tempo-decks where losing a land to Wasteland or Stifle can be backbreaking if you want to sculpt a protected kill with Silence. With the traditional RUG Delver vanishing and so a large part of the Stifle in Legacy, I doubt that the 13th land is better than the 3rd Mox MB to overwhelm the opponent game 1. In Sideboard games you can still switch a Mox for the Land if you are paired against the matchups in question even if it feels like a waste of space to have a land in the board like it was to run Discard spells in the side to switch for the Duress a while ago. Still looking for a solution.

[davelin]

Hot News: TES made it to the Finals of the PlanetMTG.de End-of-Year event in Hanau, beating the reinging Bazaar of Moxen Champion Julian Knab in the Semis!


@Chrome Mox:
With a lot of pretty fair decks in the metagame, playing only 2 Moxen in the main and swamping such as the the SB Tropical in should work without serious problems too. I did this however in a metagame with lots of tempo-decks where losing a land to Wasteland or Stifle can be backbreaking if you want to sculpt a protected kill with Silence. With the traditional RUG Delver vanishing and so a large part of the Stifle in Legacy, I doubt that the 13th land is better than the 3rd Mox MB to overwhelm the opponent game 1. In Sideboard games you can still switch a Mox for the Land if you are paired against the matchups in question even if it feels like a waste of space to have a land in the board like it was to run Discard spells in the side to switch for the Duress a while ago. Still looking for a solution.

Nice, was Julian still on Elves?

[Lemnear]

Nice, was Julian still on Elves?

He was according to his short report in the elves thread. Sounded like he splashed blue for Swan Songs

[davelin]

He was according to his short report in the elves thread. Sounded like he splashed blue for Swan Songs

Interesting, was the TES player on the new list?

[Lemnear]

Interesting, was the TES player on the new list?

No, Frank was not

http://www.planetmtg.de/articles/artikel.html?id=6604




Edit: No HotS Vol.6 in 2013 as you might have noticed my friends. There's something bigger in the making though.... stay tuned.

[akmalik]

No, Frank was not

http://www.planetmtg.de/articles/artikel.html?id=6604

Just the list from friday I played in two single elimination trials and ended 6-0. The trial on sunday was won by another tes-player (without decays? :>). Today (monday) I played with -1 Xantid, +1 Pyroblast cause I didn't expected many SneakShow/merfolk/reanimatorplayers and lost in the quarterfinals against uw Miracle.

[Lemnear]

Just the list from friday I played in two single elimination trials and ended 6-0. The trial on sunday was won by another tes-player (without decays? :>). Today (monday) I played with -1 Xantid, +1 Pyroblast cause I didn't expected many SneakShow/merfolk/reanimatorplayers and lost in the quarterfinals against uw Miracle.

Fantastic result non the less. Congratz!

It makes me sad, that I'm unable to see many of the german TES/Elves in person and the ones I met never realized who they are talking with :) (which is pretty funny at times as you can imagine). Looking forward meeting more of you guys in 2014

[cronos]

Hi!

I'd like to start playing this combo deck. I've been testing the last three days with the same list as Bryant Cook, but I wanted to change some sideboard's cards...

4 Gemstone Mine
2 City of Brass
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand

4 Lotus Petal
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
3 Chrome Mox

4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of Flame
4 Burning Wish
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Silence
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Ad Nauseam

Side (At the moment it has 14 cards):
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Xantid Swarm
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Duress / Thoughtseize
1 Grapeshot
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Ill-Gotten Gains
1 Past in Flames
1 Diminishing Returns

So far, I've been testing with that list. I've gotten the following results playing with my friends:
vs. NO Bant: 2-0
vs. Pox: 2-0
vs. Jund: 2-1/2-0/2-0
vs. Patriot: 1-2
vs. Miracle Control: 0-2
vs. Dark Depths: 2-1
vs. Dark Maverick: 0-2
vs. Team America: 2-0
vs. Imperial Painter: 2-0
vs. Reanimator: 0-2
vs. Faestalker: 1-2

I've many doubts xD:
- Do you prefer playing with 4 Silence/2 Duress/1 Cabal Therapy to playing with 4 Cabal Therapy/3 Silence?
- What do you think about to include Carpet of Flowers and Tropical Island in sideboard? It seems an interesting idea.
- I've seen some player running Massacre, Infest, Deathmark, Hull Breach, etc. Has anyone played with them?

Thanks so much. Regards.