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While I also don't appreciate the extra life loss from Thougthseize, in a Maverick crowed metagame, it has its a leg up when discarding Aven Mindcensor and Canonist.

Also I would like to get some...

With the recent changes I've noticed that the only cards that keeps on the gold lands manabase are the 3 Chants.

I freaking love Chants but is it worth playing a "crummy" manabase just to play...

WTF?
I'm assuming you're talking about Burning Wish. I wouldn't call it training wheels, between having more cantrips and having to:
- make a good sideboard with relevant wish targets
- deciding...

Yeah, that could be relevant too. I've won a game by casting BS, IT just for shuffle, BS, IT just for shuffle and then Ponder finding the BW.

TES plays only 3 dual lands, if you have a fetch in play and draw all 3 dual of the Ad Nauseam, then your fetchland can't fetch anything.

I've actually lost a game becase I had to play a fetch to...

Something that has made the difference in some games: don't play a fetchland in the combo turn before an Ad Nauseam, unless absolutely necessary.

I've ran into situations where I played the...

I try to play BS on these situations:
- I only need 1/2 cards to win now, for example, if I just need LED or IT and am playing against some non-blue deck
- I can shuffle away the 2 bad cards
- I...

I have lost counteless games when I play Seize/Duress and see FoW, FoW and blue card. A Chant effect would have solved that easily, but a discard just leaves me stranded. Also, Spell Snare, Spell...

I know we don't play Cabal Ritual, but there was a sweet play I thought before a tournment and the it actualy came up.

It basically involves having 4 mana in the pool, LED in play, Infernal Tutor...

This discussion is so pointless.

The only time I had a Burning wish to cast I was at like 3-4 storm. After that I cast Gains into another Returns that drew me nothing.

Returns is a great...

If you don't know then don't comment on it.

I was playing against goblins, I knew he had a Matron and Piledriver in hand. He had 3 mountains and a Warchief in play and some other 3 goblins. If...

Don't give that "you did it wrong" crap. At every point of that chain of spells I'm certain that I did the correct line of play. On the first Returns I didn't have IT on the side, didn't have a...

Doomsday gives a sure win. It's conditional to having the right mana and the cantrip, but once you get that you win.

Last tournment I attended I actually went: Returns, IGG -> Returns and still...

Having 3 Brainstorms in your hand is also a reason to blow one off turn one.

There are just too many variables... and the article on BS applies very little to our strategy. The article shows how...

Quoted for truth.

The removal of cards becomes more problematic as the cards you need become more specific. DReturning with zero mana in your pool will take at least a Chrome Mox or Lotus Petal to...

Another good discussion is: do you Duress facing an untapped Island or do you Ponder?

If you're playing against CB you probably HAVE to, as it is you best chance of avoiding a CB. But against...

More than once my hand went from completely shit to godlike in a single mainphase Brainstorm. Even against discard, if you have redundancy like 2 bombs and 2 LEDs the discard might not even hurt you...

Ponder is better for the same reason that we sometimes cast Turn 1 Brainstorm on the play. The deck can be very explosive and sometimes all you need is to dig for a LED or a bomb. And in my book...

Isn't waiting until he makes 3 mana and then Chant better than Chanting on upkeep. You could be caught short when he drops something like Petal, Land, Pyretic Ritual, Spirit Guide into Belcher (no...

Ok, let's say you did get a fast start and go T1 Ad Nauseam flipping 3 Mindbreak Traps. How is Belcher supposed to win now?

Unless he sided in Xantid Swams, you can drop lands and sculpt a perfect...

What's is the point of discussing this here then? Just stick 4 Mindbreak Traps in your SB and be happy.

ourserrateddust postedon StormBoards this set of tests he did on DR. He says he also posted this in here, but I don't have time to find it. I'll just paste it here.

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I woudn't worry too much about this new hatebear as it can only be played in monowhite decks. Playing it in decks with fetchs seems like a waste of time. And even in DnT Canonist + Mother is probably...

I still fail to see how 5cc mana base + chants > 3cc4/4cc stable mana base with Duress/Seize in a metagame where CB is present/dominant. Discard isn't exactly the ultimate answer against CB, but it's...

Naming Chant with Mage is stupid unless you know they have it and you have several counters in hand. Naming Burning Wish is a much safer blind play as it stops their setting up, their answers to the...