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Being one who play's Pox regularly as well as Mav, this is what I was going to say. If you're counting on casting a 5 mana cost (6 w/ GSZ) card to "beat" Pox... That's just not going to happen.

Agreed. As cool as it sounds to go: T1 land, Hierarch -> T2 rip Temporal Mastery... It's not actually really doing much for you, and it absolutely blows to have in your opener.

Having an EE in the board has been great to supplement the above plan as well. Not to mention it's usefulness in the mirror, etc.

Continuing along the 3rd color splash line of thinking. I'm pretty firmly entrenched with Black, just for personal preference. But I've been tinkering with a Glissa the Traitor as a GSZ target. ...

Obviously I was being sarcastic. SFM to the well-informed legacy player is clearly not a problem card. (The point being WotC is NOT a "well-informed legacy player".)

And yeah, I'm only running 3...

Haha, ugh. And the way all the WotC coverage I've read LOVES to focus/dramatize on SFM being so "unbeatable/ubiquitous/ridiculous" I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow justified it's banning. ...

SB space is admittedly tight, but I always feel better with 2x Krosan Grip in there and not just Pride Mages.

So, after pretty much becoming the defacto "test pilot" playing GW/x Maverick for our Legacy playtesting leading up to GP Indy (which in the end I wasn't able to attend ::sadface) ...I basically fell...