It's relevant when you have a Diamond and they have taxing counters. It's happened to me twice.
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It's relevant when you have a Diamond and they have taxing counters. It's happened to me twice.
Oh. I was planning on burying them with Zealot. Your points about Troll are well taken.
You might keep one Ichorid if you need to kickstart a Bridge after a Breakthrough to grind out a long game. I don't think that would actually happen vs Elves.
Firestorm is fine but against most...
Ancestor's Chosen doesn't even beat Elves. Boarding out Breakthrough against combo decks makes you super slow. I'd board out the Ichorids and probably leave Firestorm on the bench.
I sometimes leave like two in, usually because I don't have enough sideboard slots to have everything I want against every deck and need to cut some corners. Two Forces and two or three Counterspells...
I think people just refuse to stop with Ad Nauseam for no real reason. Once you're at five or six, you're usually missing either a mana or a business spell. If you're short on mana, you can just pass...
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/legacy/21058_Ideas_Unbound_Boarding_out_Force_of_Will.html
I wanted to contribute to the thread about boarding out Force of Will beyond pithy one-liners, but...
Relevant: http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/legacy/21058_Ideas_Unbound_Boarding_out_Force_of_Will.html
It's pretty crucial to note that Goblins can't really apply a ton of pressure while disrupting you unless they have the nut Lackey/Wasteland draw with either Siege-Gang or Piledriver plus two...
Putting your opponent up a land on turn four in an aggro mirror is a lot different from being down a blue spell. The relevant interactions that are generated by the other guy having an extra basic...
Your main point seems to be 'good cards are good.' Force of Will is bad in an attrition fight, and is pretty much only good when interacting for zero mana is worth a card. Interacting for zero mana...
Kinda. You have to peel a mana source because you have to burn your Petal or your Mine so you can't just Tutor up Ad Nauseam.
(why is Petal in play?)
What to do on your next turn depends entirely on what card you draw. What has happened in previous turns is also relevant; which cards you know are in your opponent's hand, what cards he knows you...
Shearer's mana base is actually less stable. For example, sometimes you draw Bayou.
I use Burning Wish to clear out naked Counterbalances all the time. They're pretty much obligated to play Counterbalance on two, so even if they have Top into Counterbalance they still need to hit...
I don't play against many Show and Tell-esque decks, but I win more than I lose against them. You have to hit them with a Therapy or bury them with a draw spell on two, but that's not that hard to...
I mean. If you have a Claim and they don't have a Crypt and you have spare mana, killing a Vial is fine. He's clearly not like 'SHIT HE'S GOT AETHER VIALS BETTER LOAD UP ON NATURE'S CLAIM.'
I...
Firestorm is pretty much just an upgrade over Careful Study if your opponent is trying to beat down.
One of the reasons Ari likes the UB build so much is because you don't need many maindeck answers to hate, fwiw.
Sort of irrelevant now, but I think it's sort of loose to be like 'oh man, this version of Tendrils is bad against a maindecked Canonist' when the Burning Wish builds are more stock, more resilient...
A rule of 'always main phase Brainstorm' is going to have a lot fewer exceptions than 'always end step Brainstorm.'
You can Brainstorm on two, decide you need another land to kill them, and then...
Given that it's not at all uncommon for your Brainstorm to enable you to kill your opponent on the spot, you need a pretty good reason to set up an end step Brainstorm. Good reasons might be to test...
Much more often than I end step it, actually. Are you trying to represent Counterspell or something?
It's not like there's some rule that says that Unmask and Lion's Eye Diamond go hand in hand; they're not giggling teenagers who have just started making out and NOW IT'S TRUE LOVE AND WE MUST BE...