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I'm pretty sure I would still play Gemstone Mine in some quantity. I would likely just start with -2 City, -4 Silence, +3 Therapy, +1 Duress, +2 Fetch from the current list if I was trying something...

I believe Brandon Adams actually recently suggested that Chant may just be bad right now and Therapy could easily be better. I think he may be right and I could see a higher fetch count, all discard...

I actually don't think I've Wished for that slot in quite a while, but I'm pretty sure that Enchantress + Leyline of Sanctity are both things I want a Wishable answer to. The only time I would want...

First off, I don't think Karakas is necessary to fight Show and Tell decks. If anything, it takes up disruption slots I would rather use on things that can attack their counters or combo as necessary...

Opponent opted to not board out Path and he is attributing it to his opponent not being able to do so or just failing to think about doing so. The corresponding term would be "next leveled" if he...

LOL at you calling the deck that.

Also, Bryant, re: Xantid Swarm vs. High Tide, AFAIK most of the lists are playing a large amount of Flusterstorm and I want Xantid as the most profitable way to...

100% agree on cutting Swarm for major events. I don't think I've seen a Show and Tell list in an SCG top 8 for a long time, meaning the only deck I've seen in those events I want it against is High...

Silence aggressively to Time Walk when they have a guy in bin, kill more on turn 2.

MD:
-1 Empty the Warrens
+1 Tendrils of Agony

SB:
-1 Reforge the Soul
-1 Past in Flames
-1 Grapeshot
-1 Cabal Therapy
+1 Ill-gotten Gains

If anything, the results of the weekend make TES a much better deck. Less Miracles, more lightly disruptive, mediocre clock blue decks.

Split top 4 of a Legacy IQ (for funsies as I already had the invite) going 5-0-2 with TES. Beat BUG Delver, Maverick, GU Eldrazi-Post, Fish, and Bant despite having a terrible last minute sideboard...

Just Silence them on turn 2. And keep aggressive draws. The matchup is actually pretty good. Also, Duress is shocking good against them on the play. Actually, just win the die roll, that helps a ton.

Figured I would chime in after having played Probe. Made the deck significantly better. The math works out that you basically get to cut a land for a Ritual (adjusted percentages out of 56), which...

Just killing them works fairly well. Omni-Tell is also fairly weak to discard as they have to go through a Show/Wish.

TES:

Silence is much better against conditional counters (Spell Snare, Stifle), Storm, and Reanimator (as you can't always be on the play to hit their Entomb and you can't always hit their...

MD Tendrils makes Dim Ret significantly better.

I'm personally on the side of having 2x Ad Naus. I want as many T1/T2 kills as possible in the current metagame, and one of the best ways to have this happen is draw Ad Naus in your opening 7.
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Something I just realized that probably doesn't matter at all anymore: If Reanimator has Exhume they can easily beat the Chant-Reanimate setup by casting Exhume and responding with Entomb. Good thing...

Quick tournament report:

5-0 not Force of Will (2 Dredge, 1 Death and Taxes, 1 Doomsday, 1 Enchantress). Lost 1 game to Dredge on the draw and 1 where my Dim Ret whiffed (R float, Sea untapped,...

Usually if they Entomb EOT you are trying to Silence them on upkeep. Just makes "going off" the next turn easier in that case.

As for the person who suggested Bribery, if I can Wish with five up...

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Can we also Wish for a Reanimate?

Yes, in fact it was. Not that the sideboard was relevant for me, never seen a Belcher deck with Storm hate before.

Went 6-2-1 at the Columbus Open with TES. Quick report

Rd 1- Bant (W 2-1)
G1 kill him on 1, he doesn't have Force. G2 keep a no lander on the draw and brick. G3 I don't remember what happened,...

As someone who has done it a lot of times, I can definitively tell you that Chain > ETruth for Storm ramping. The issue is TES really doesn't care much about that effect as it is rarely setting up...

I would much rather Chant-Walk Dredge then let them do things like Cabal Therapy and plan on just bouncing their Zombies after the fact.