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You should probably prioritize cutting duress here and leave in Gitaxian Probe. Xantid Swarm doesn't really seem needed - these decks typically run 1 hard counter (Force), and typically they SB...

If you have 3 DON in the sideboard, the Death and Taxes matchup should be very favorable. G1 is kinda a crapshoot (depends a lot on whether both players know what the other is playing and who is on...

Try something like Sensei's Top -- Ignorant bliss is pretty bad, because it's really difficult to hold up 1R when you need to...and it pretty much never resolves against those decks. Top lets you...

...what permanents are you killing against decks with Force, Pierce, and Daze? The occasional Leyline out of Sneak and Show? Maybe, very rarely, a meddling mage out of U/W? The first can't be decayed...

Abrupt decay is much worse than Chain of Vapor, which is the card most people cut for it. If not chain, than slaughter pact, echoing truth, pyroclasm - there are a lot of more situational cards that...

You can play Ad Nauseam in this deck without it being your primary strategy...if you want Ad Nauseam as your primary strategy, you probably need to play 3+ Chrome Mox, and you probably also want BW...

I'm also kind of curious why everyone is saying ANT is better than TES against discard -- Hymn on the draw against TES is way too slow, and they run so much more mana that Brainstorm is pretty much...

Were you running Abrupt Decay? The CB matchup isn't great with that, but 0-4 (with 1-8 in games) seems a little off to me.

That said, are those numbers really that bad? Counterbalance is our worst...

You really shouldn't put an Infernal Tutor in the board -- it's the card you're most often digging for in any game, you really want to have 4 of them main. If you really need a tutor in the board,...

ANT is more consistent (DTB only looks at large tournaments), and it's more popular, RIP is a fairly niche card that's played in a deck that has no clock, DRS isn't really that hard to play around,...

Did you need all those wish targets? It seems like a lot, especially with only 2 red lands main. Usually it seems like people have the 1 PiF main, 1 IGG Side, and then 1 Tendrils and 1 Empty split...

Heh, I'm pretty sure I was the storm player, the only reason I lost that game was because I tutored for a second Ad Nauseam the next turn that I had recently cut. I went for it there because I had...

Why would you play City of Brass over Trop? At least in the Miracles matchup, I've been boarding down to 1-2 Silence, since you don't really want to draw more than one of them, since that deck isn't...

Have you guys considered a Trop or Bayou in the SB? I've been practicing the Miracles matchup quite a bit, and I've had a lot of trouble getting GB up in a reasonable amount of time. Putting a dual...

BW was fairly difficult to cast before the green splash, it's certainly not possible to play 4 BW along with a green splash. You can still play BW if you want, you just can't play Abrupt Decay with...

That's not really true when you're playing against a bunch of decks whose entire gameplan against you is to remove your graveyard and make you discard your hand. In the current meta of Hymns,...

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I agree it feels unintuitive to board in Chrome Mox against discard decks -- it makes sense when you consider that your primary win condition is Ad Nauseam, though. As for the number,...

Has anyone done much testing against the Jund lists? I have found them to be pretty annoying to play against, since, especially post board, since they run enough discard to force us to try and grind...

There HAVE to be better cards than Canonist for the mirror...not only is it about as narrow as can be (You can literally bring it in vs no other decks, as you'll just lose if you do), it also isn't...

I did, basically G1 it was a race between me getting hellbent and him drawing a tutor or solitary confinement (I run no maindeck outs). My hand was a bunch of rituals + IT + 1 land, I hit land for a...

I went to Denver and had a very unexciting tournament

Rd 1: Enchantress (1-2) - kind of an awkward match without ETW, as they tend to overwhelm my 2 chain of vapors
Rd 2: Burn (2-0)
Rd 3: Sneak...

Against Miracles I'd:

-4 Probe
-1 Fetch
-1 Grim Tutor
-2 Cabal Therapy


+3 Abrupt Decay
+1 Trop

People were discussing cutting Ad Naus for EtW a few posts back, I figured that's how you were fitting it in. Do you cut a Grim Tutor for it? I don't know that you can support 2 Grims and EtW in the...

My SB is very similar:
2 Chain of Vapor
3 Dark Confidant
4 Xantid Swarm
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Tropical Island
2 Karakas

If you plan on playing against BUG, Bob is very good, as all their removal...

I think Shaman is a very good reason to not have EtW in your deck if you're cutting Ad Naus for it. When PiF is less reliable, Ad Nauseam is pretty good, especially since most of the Tempo BUG draws...