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The Rise and Fall of DPS By mid-2015, Gush Tendrils, powered by Dig Through Time, was the strongest performing Storm deck. Good old TPS was still kicking around, but it was an uphill battle against Mental Misstep. Two things changed that opened up more space for Tendrils of Agony. The second was...

The only thing I'm seeing in the rules for when the scout marker can be used is still this...

Block Paladin with Ranger.

UUD, Borderland Ranger searching for Island, play Island, done. :( Spidey: 10 Hand: 1 Library: 44 Battlefield: (T,T,T) Mt x3 (T,T,T) Plains x3 (U) Boros Guildgate (~ ETB tapped.; T: Add R or W to my mana pool) (U) Clifftop Retreat (~ ETB tapped unless I control a Mt or Plains.; T: Add R or W...

UUD, Island, River Sneak. It gains haste ueot and a +1/+1 counter. Attack Melkor, done. Melkor: 18 Command Zone: Cannons to Port (The next time you deal combat damage to the player on your left, draw a card.) Hand: 7 Library: 52 Battlefield: (T) Swamp x1 (T) Plains x1 (S) Duskbourne...

Magic 2014: Beginning of the End Burning Tendrils was doing pretty well and was quickly becoming the Storm deck of choice for Vintage. But it went downhill from there, and not for a single, simple, clear-cut reason. The trigger for the decline of a card that had spent nearly a decade as a...

The Return of Burning Wish The synergy between Oath of Druids and Forbidden Orchard has had a presence in Vintage ever since Forbidden Orchard was varied. The exact creature or creatures used with this combo have varied wildly over the years, and I'll make no attempt to cover them all here. I...

Ritual? Who needs it? Traditional TPS decks fueled by Dark Ritual continued to appear in Vintage, but increasingly, the card associated with Tendrils of Agony in Vintage was not Dark Ritual or even Mana Drain from the Drain Tendrils decks, but Gush. For a while, the three coexisted, but Gush was...

Gush Tendrils In September of 2010, Gush was unrestricted again. The blue/black/green decks with both Dark Ritual and Gush, known as TTS, didn't make a comeback. But Gush did return to the format in a big way. There were Gush aggro decks, Gush control decks, and a Gush combo archetype using...

Jekaena: Dorgath, do you recognize them? Revaethan: Jekaena, dwarves don't all know each other! Jekaena: They don't? Oh. I wonder what they're doing here. Revaethan: Shall we go find out?

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ZOMG EXPOSITION CUTSCENE You make your way through a long granite tunnel. The light from the lantern fills the space around you, trailing off into darkness ahead and darkness behind. Throg seems to absentmindedly pull ahead, his daemonic gait naturally putting distance between himself and the...

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When Modern was first created, its card pool was a bit bigger than the Extended card pool had ever been. But WotC had already modified Extended to be smaller, and Modern has only grown from that point forward. So, in a sense, Modern isn't very much like Extended was and will probably only...

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Death Long As mentioned, I dislike the naming trend of Storm decks being anything "Long." But a few of these really never seemed to have been called anything else. With Burning Wish restricted, some Storm players turned to Death Wish as an alternative. Burning Wish offered a bit of a toolbox...

Block the Paladin with the Geist.