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Imho, a RUG player facing ANT should side out Mangoose before siding out Goyfs, and maybe even before siding out Lightning Bolts.

Cut Massacre and some number of Chains and put in 3/4 Dread of night.

Also, 2 LDV main seems a lot, I'd play a second Preordain in place of the 2nd LDV.

Maybe the "rust" you're talking about is referred to the fact you didn't remember you sided AN out, but the decision itself to bring AN out against tempo seems to me like a good idea.

Very true: TES being almost immune to graveyard hate is a good reason to play it over ANT.

On the other hand, TES being weaker against Wasteland and -1 -1 effects is a good reason to play ANT.
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I have the opposite feeling about ANT and TES to be honest: I think in the actual meta ANT is better positioned.

We fight soft counters like Pierce much better than TES for example. (by the way:...

I don't think DnT players will cut Revoker for SotL, I guess they'll prefer to cut some number of Mindcensors and Flickerwisps.
IMHO Revoker is just to good and versatile for their strategy.

Well, I think it's a pretty solid argument to be honest: 4 Bolts vs 3 Swarm means the Swarm will stick very rarely on the ground. And if it's killed we just traded 1 for 1, and the card they lost...

Do you board Swarm in even against a deck playing 4 Bolts?

Do you prefer Chains over Decays vs Jund? Can you explain why?



Speaking in general, the only real issue I got when I have to sideboard with ANT against any deck packing some permanent-hate...

Thanks for the answers.


I'm not convinced on the Warrens plan because probably the Jund player is boarding a couple of Golgari charms and Engineered explosives / Pernicious deed / Engineered...

Don't forget about Merfolk, which is another matchup where the Swarm can win the game alone.

For my part, I never board in Swarm if opponent has removal for it. Against tempo I use Carpet.

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I guess you meant a smart Jund player ;)

Well, it's a matter of preference: I'm not sure Decay is better than Bloodbraid against ANT.
Considering the amount of disruption (let's say the ANT...

This is right, because a smart ANT player should play its LED/Petals immediately, but Jund's sideboard has enough combo hate to reclaim many slots: usually it is 2-3 Duress, 3 Pyroblast, 2...

I don't think that will happen too often, frankly.
Yes, there are some lists playing only Punishing fire and no Bolts, but the majority of Punishing Jund lists play at least a couple of Bolts too....

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Fair enough (and that's why I would never play without 2-3 Decay in a storm deck), but I don't think it's just a MUD-related problem.
A full...

How do you handle Chalice @1 without Decay?

Well, playing D&T vs Storm should be pretty straightforward even for inexperienced players: land Mom/Vial on turn 1, land hatebears on turn 2-3 (Canonist --> Thalia --> Revoker), land Mystic, fetch...