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Bummer man. Did you end up Grapeshotting his creatures and him to buy a couple of turns?

I've heard of storm players doing this. I think Ari Lax ran 3 EtW over Pyroblast in the board.

I think I would go with Badlands, actually. You will really be wanting that second fetch-able black source.

I just won three byes with TES last weekend, so I'm considering going now. It is still a way off, but I'm thinking either TES or Grinding Station. I'm constantly tempted to play Belcher at large...

Save your REB's for his counterbalance, or duress it out of his hand.

But how often do you really see Chalice of the Void at an event?

So, why do you guys run both Deathmark and Grapeshot? I know guys like Bryant love to grapeshot people's faces, but I feel that isn't really a valid reason to run both.

Atta boy. Nice work!

My favorite trick that I read in one of Bryant's reports:

When your opponent has CB + top in play, bait out 1 drop spells like RoF or Rituals. If they are forced to put their Top on their library,...

I would imagine we'll be seeing more Gaddock Teegs and Cannonists in the coming weeks. People will probably try to fight back combo's large numbers at Indy.

Wouldn't something like Carpet of Flowers be better? It costs one less, and can do what Drain Power does every turn (well, just about).

A lot of TES players don't like playing it but Carpet is...

If it is reasonable, make sure you haven't made a land drop when casting diminishing returns with one or two mana floating. Being able to drop a land off your new seven can be REALLY important.

You cast Diminishing Returns when you NEED to win. It is sort of a last resort thing. If IGG and EtW won't cut it and you have some extra mana, go for it. Diminishing returns is kind of a...

This is the last thing I will say about Flusterstorm.

If you need to be hellbent and have IT + Flusterstorm in hand, you can do this:

Cast Infernal Tutor
Cast Flusterstorm targeting IT
Storm...

Oh, my bad. Fair enough.

I disagree. Flusterstorm can reliably hit Stifle, Pact of Negation (vs Hivemind) , Duress, Firespout (for EtW), opposing Silences and other stuff like that. Needing to counter multiple spells at once...

Flusterstorm hitting Hymn or thoughtseize is very relevant. You guys should give it a shot in the board sometime, instead of REB.

This was me. Bryant, would you mind putting my name under that section in the primer?

And to answer your question, I played out the situation 50 times and for each of the 50, I tried every...

An interesting interaction to note is that you can crack LEDs with this card in hand, and then use its flashback with the mana you get.

I've been messing around with Flusterstorm as well. Being able to hit their Hymn's and Thoughtseizes seems pretty good, in addition to protecting your combo.

I've been playing with the second AN main decked for a while and I couldn't be happier with it.

It isn't too bad on its own, but Meddling Mage combined with counters as backup can be pretty devastating. I remember a discussion I had with some guys in the past, and we figured out that naming...

I agree. I really hope you're joking.

As I said, this is really only when you already had a fetch in play.

Additionally, if you have a fetch in play already and think you might be tight on mana post-Ad Nauseam, you should fetch before you cast Ad Nauseam. If you flip your fetchable lands, you can't fetch...