Good results! I might start playing
Thought Scour over
Preordain.
Finished that league 3-2, so it's 10-5 overall. Not sure if Intuition is where you want to be; I just wanted to try out my first drawup. I'm going to tinker with some Gamble lists soon.
How has it been against mana denial decks? Did you face much Delver or D&T?
I have yet to face D and T. Intuition is passable against Delver, which I have faced. I cut one post board. You sometimes have to play it into a Daze.
Where has Veil shined for you that Silence wouldn't? I would think that a random draw on the combo turn doesn't make a huge difference if you already committed to going off. Did you face much Counterbalance? I like Silence for beating Surgical and disenchants, but maybe your counters were sufficient to beat those.
Veil has primarily shined against Thoughtseize (which Silence doesn't stop) and winning a counter war on the opponent's turn (vs the New UG Show and Tell deck). Being able to cycle it is also sometimes nice.
Thinking about it more, there are some nice things about Silence that I hadn't thought of. Much better against something like Crop Rotation, for instance.
I was torn about Flusterstorm vs Spell Pierce earlier. In your games how often did it win situations that Spell Pierce wouldn't (i.e. storm >=3 and opponent has 2 open)? I like that Pierce can counter permanent hate like Chalice, Counterbalance, Cage, Crypt....
In the faster builds, I think Spell Pierce or a split makes more sense. As I am more equipped to play a slow game, and often do, the extra storm copies of Flusterstorm have come in handy several times. In builds without FOW Pierce is probably also correct, since you have fewer answers to things like Chalice and Karn.
You can play around Surgical Extraction until you can counter it or stop them from playing spells. What about Faerie Macabre, Scavenging Ooze and Extirpate though? That's why I started with the 3 Gravestones originally. If it was just for Surgical, even Silence stops that. Although note that Silent Gravestone also stops their Snapcaster Mage and Dreadhorde Arcanist in those Surgical decks.
Not gonna lie...Extirpate seems almost unbeatable. If opponent has it and always leaves a black mana available it seems like they should be able to win eventually with a ham sandwich. I've comboed through double Macabre. Macabre is a card that could occasionally "catch you" on an early turn. In general Surgical seems only marginally better against us than it is vs something like ANT. It comes in against ANT, and it is even better vs us (so it's not like we are happy the opponent has access) but most of the time you can navigate around it. Flusterstorm vs Pierce also tends to help here.
It also has a 2nd mode of slowing down Reanimator, which is faster than us. Do we have any other plan against them? We can't race. I figured having a protection piece that doubled as hate was efficient use of SB.
Gravestone is a total beating vs Reanimator to be sure. Forces them to have an answer or exactly Exhume. My plan is force/flusterstorm (4 of each post board) into a combo on t2-4. I guess I can get behind a single Gravestone if you have room. Maybe it does deserve a slot--I'm a fan of the card, and used to play three copies in Ice Station Zebra back in the DRS days. I'd just go with one because of (extreme) diminishing returns and it being somewhat borderline to begin with.
Speaking of Ice Station Zebra, I made a kind of funny Tin Fins mashup with Breach. You can find it on the Tin Fins forum in Established decks. I'm 2-0 in my first league with it! (Def don't think it's actually good).