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

[sawatarix]

the secret is: There is no Deck wich is powerful enough to beat ant consistently.
ka-tching

[Togores]

I have been playing recentl a lot vs a friend who build up a mono red dragon stompy and if i dont get turn 1 ad nauseam i was loosing most of the games. 4 revoker, 4 chalice, 4 triniesphere, sol lands, simian and moxen and in side 4 ratched 3 earthquake. With TES and ANT Im having a nightmare to play vs him.

just to mention

[Bryant Cook]

At least for a short period of time, I'll be cutting Massacre for another Xantid Swarm. Death & Taxes has died down for the moment in this region and Sneak & Show is picking back-up, just a metagame call.

[jake556]

At least for a short period of time, I'll be cutting Massacre for another Xantid Swarm. Death & Taxes has died down for the moment in this region and Sneak & Show is picking back-up, just a metagame call.

Hey Bryant are you on MODO?

[Bryant Cook]

Hey Bryant are you on MODO?

I am, but not really. I bought a shitty PC off a friend, but it's slow and laggy. Maybe one day when I can figure out how to set up Parallels properly.

[Togores]

Yeah massacre was not great lately. But was fine. Sidding vs blade matchups the grape in and destroying his meddling and sfm. Delvers and so with massacre. I would cut the 2nd chain for the xantid. Have played a lot vs burn and with therapy, racing and so u win most of the ganes vs eidolon. 1 chain is sure enought.

[wonderPreaux]

I am, but not really. I bought a shitty PC off a friend, but it's slow and laggy. Maybe one day when I can figure out how to set up Parallels properly.

It would be absurdly cool for tutorial/demo purposes if we had vod/streams of you in mtgo dailies. granted, it would probably be a bit a time-sink, especially with the impending beta :/

[Bryant Cook]

It would be absurdly cool for tutorial/demo purposes if we had vod/streams of you in mtgo dailies. granted, it would probably be a bit a time-sink, especially with the impending beta :/

I'll be perfectly honest, I have little interest in acquiring the deck online when LEDs are through the roof. Paying that much money for fake magic cards is ridiculous.

[Togores]

Leds have go down a lot due to the reprint in vintage masters. ;)

[wonderPreaux]

Leds have go down a lot due to the reprint in vintage masters. ;)

apparently floating around at $15 for VMA reprints, i feel like a fool for buying in when they were MOCS promos XD

[Royce Walter]

I'll be perfectly honest, I have little interest in acquiring the deck online when LEDs are through the roof. Paying that much money for fake magic cards is ridiculous.

Text me this weekend and I can stream and Skype you in.

[Lemnear]

Text me this weekend and I can stream and Skype you in.

That stuff sounds kinda interresting

[Dark Ritual]

Yeah LED is worth less than infernal tutor on modo last I heard. In fact infernal tutor is the most expensive card in the deck online at 30ish tix a pop if you go with bloodstained mires for fetches since sea is like 15 and volc a little less. The only downside is that modo's clients are hideous really. Although I felt the same way when LED was something like 150+ tix online I thought "no thank you I will never shell out that much for virtual code that I don't own."

[Togores]

Void snare already got.
Gona love to burning for it <3

[saur]

Is there a reason to still play 2x Chain of Vapor-type spells with Void Snare printed? I've only brought it in against Reanimator/Sneak and Show, but it's really terrible if they get Griselbrand anyway.

Get excited everyone, I'm typing up another tournament report. This time with even more lucky draws and misplays.

[wonderPreaux]

Hi everyone, I've been getting some nice results with this build of 3-color TES. I think it has potential, and I'm wondering if anyone has some ideas about what could take up another notch.

Here's where I'm at now:

4 Cabal Therapy
2 Duress
1 Thoughtseize
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Empty the Warrens
3 Infernal Tutor
4 Burning Wish
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of Flame
2 Cabal Ritual
2 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Petal
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
7 Fetchlands

1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Grapeshot
1 Infernal Tutor
1 Past in Flames
1 Bribery
1 Telemin Performance
1 Massacre
1 Thoughtseize
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Pyroblast
2 Pithing Needle

The MTGO meta, from my experience is clustered around Storm/Combo, Miracles, Elves, Burn, and Delver with smatterings of 12 Post, Dredge/Reanimator, DnT, and the occasional rogue brew. By replacing Abrupt Decay and Xantid Swarm with Pithing Needles and Pyroblast, I can play an arguably better long game without worrying over Gemstone Mines, and have very powerful SB cards that come in in more than 1 matchup each. It's nice having really consistent mana, and having across-the board-solid sb cards.

The main is pretty unremarkable, its pretty much the same as the stock list at a glance. More fetches means you can hit threshold about as easily as you could by emptying Gemstone Mines, maybe even easier, I get a lot of Threshold. 2/1 Duress/Thoughtseize split is a concession to Elves/Eidolon and to a lesser extent Clique. It also makes boarding easier against hatebear decks as you can trim 2 Duress, 2 Ponder for Tutor, Thoughtseize and 2 Chain of Vapors, just Belcher people out and have extra discard to feel them out or foil Mindbreak Trap (fuck that card). The only changes I'm thinking of for the main is tinkering with the balance of fetches versus duals, I don't want to get color-screwed by opening, like, 3 Volcanic Islands, Duress, Infernal Tutor, but I also don't want to fold to Stifle out of Delver decks. I'm considering moving up to 6-7 duals, running 7 duals + 5 fetches only would let me run 1 of each island-fetch, then a Bloodstained Mire, and then I could Pithing fetches and only have to worry about deadening one potential card.

The sideboard is where I'm looking for more insight. I like where I'm headed with cards like Pyroblast and Needle, but some cards don't deliver as much, and I'm not sure what to do with those slots. For example, the Telemin Performance was a Diminishing Returns, before that it was a GY hate card, all I can seem to find for that slot are marginally beneficial cards. I also don't like Massacre that much, or the 2nd Pyroblast, the former being less necessary when I lean on EtW and the latter really only being worth the extra slot, imo, against something like Miracles.

For those 2-3 slots, I've been at a loss for what to do. I thought about Young Pyromancer/Bitterblossom to grind decks like Miracles or even some Delver builds, but Idk which is better or how good the plan is with either one. I considered more Pithing Needle, but it seems subpar to open with a lot of them because its a flexible card to side, but a narrow one to actually play. I also considered cards like Surgical Extraction, but, much like how I'm currently disliking Telemin Performance, I think Extraction would be pretty narrow too. Defense Grid has been on my mind, but I've never played with it, and idk how well it compares to Xantid, or how many matchups it'd be useful in, as I'm, again, trying to shoot for a very flexible board overall.

If anyone had some insights, I'd really appreciate the feedback. The sb will likely be subject to change when Void Snare is out for MTGO and 1 or both Chains are removed for the singleton Snare.

[Bloodcookie]

The sideboard is where I'm looking for more insight...

I've been running Gleeful Sabotage/Revoke Existence as a Wish target vs. anything from Painter-Stone to Miracles to Ethersworn Canonist, thought either would be problematic in your 3-color build.

[wonderPreaux]

I've been running Gleeful Sabotage/Revoke Existence as a Wish target vs. anything from Painter-Stone to Miracles to Ethersworn Canonist, thought either would be problematic in your 3-color build.

Void Snare hits MTGO in a couple weeks, so, thats angle is gonna get some better coverage. It might even open a slot in the board if I dont find a need for any copies of Chain

[Bryant Cook]

Top 4'd a small 6 round legacy event today. Losing twice to Merfolk with main deck Chalice of the Void, I also played against that at Worchester last week. If this trend continues I'm going to start siding it in against them just in case.

[Dice_Box]

Yea, fish is switching out Daze for Chalice. I would think these days if you sit down across from them, expect it as a rule not the exception that they have it now.