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Two ANT decks in the Top 16 of yesterdays SCG Classic. Both without the green splash, almost identical maindecks; 14 lands with 1 Empty the Warrens, 1 Dark Petition, and 1 Past in Flames. One cuts...

Presumably Rain of Filth?

Decks that slam Chalice early do so at the cost of deploying their threats a turn later, giving you a card. If you have a Hurkyl's Recall in your hand against a deck like Eldrazi, one reasonable plan...

Vegas report. Not super detailed but there were a couple of interesting spots. Played against every flavour of BUG under the sun, mostly managed to dodge Chalices.

I never bring in Empty the Warrens against Death & Taxes; it's too tough to make one big enough fast enough that it doesn't get raced by Stoneforge Mystic.

Rule of Law is probably acceptable as a split with Rest In Peace. Grixis ANT lists will have twoish ways to remove it postboard, 4-Colour lists will have up to fourish. Coming down on turn three is a...

By Force flips as a 1 to Ad Nauseam, not shut off by Chalice or Prelate on 2.

Surfinbird's got a new sideboard for the 2 DP, 1 PIF, 1 AN, 1 TOA list:

1 By Force
1 Culling Scales
2 Dread of Night
2 Echoing Truth
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1...

Hope of Ghirapur has shown up in at least one 5-0 list from MTGO.

I tried out Surfinbird's list on Monday. Didn't love it, but that might have just been that all my matchups were boring hate vs...

Wished for a By Force tonight. It was better than Meltdown, Pulverize, or Shattering Spree would have been.

You're stuck with Faerie Macabre if you want to have outs to this, I think.

Thanks! I'm probably still on Wishes for now, but I'll give your list a spin at least once before I make any decisions about Vegas.

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Any reason you like Dark Petition over Burning Wish?
Why 3 Dread of Night instead of a split with Massacre?
Can we get a brief sideboard guide for that list?

Surfinbird19 5-0ed three leagues today with the following list:

3 Cabal Therapy
2 Dark Petition
3 Duress
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Infernal Tutor
1 Past in Flames
4 Ponder
2 Preordain

I am. I'm not convinced that configuration would be better overall. Minimizing the need for red mana is nice, I guess, but I think Infernal Tutor is just better than Dark Petition. If you could play...

Quick thought on justifying Burning Wish: if you think it's now unnecessary to fill the sideboard with green cards, then freed-up sideboard space enables Burning Wish to take the place of sub-optimal...

I actually kind of like that TNT deck. I think I'll test that maindeck -1 land -1 Duress, +1 Chrome Mox, +1 Rain of Filth. Playing Burning Wish lets you not be almost colded by a Surgical Extraction....

I've always liked the 3/1 Tarn/Mire split.

Two ANT and one TNT list in today's 5-0 decks on MTGO. Couple of different sideboard approaches.

Is there any consensus currently on what to play in the sideboard for Death & Taxes? I'm looking at ken_cowload's list but it's clearly not designed for the paper metagame.

They do get to draw a card for each Tendrils copy, so if this isn't happening on MTGO, it's a bug.

If we're bringing in Decays for Miracles, Death & Taxes, BUG, Eldrazi, Burn, etc. we surely should be playing them maindeck.

I played some test games with the Jon Alexander's Grinding Station against Eldrazi. Lost every post-board game. I'd Daze a Chalice very consistently and then just die before I could go off.

For real though, the temptation to cut all the Abrupt Decays and Dazes and just run Teferi's Realms maindeck is real.

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Do you dip Scotch bonnet chiles in sriracha as a snack? Do you like it when your opponents have to read your cards? If...

What would you cut from your Grinding Station sideboard if you were going to play graveyard hate?