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Sorry, I worded that poorly. I meant with Dredging. Sylvan is an all-star card for sure for all the reasons you mentioned. Run it for those reasons. Not so that you can Dredge three times in a...

http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?21281-Sylvan-Library-and-Life-from-the-Loam-interaction

It's really only useful for Dredging 3 times in a turn.

How about GSZ in Loam?

You mean like most of these?

Yeah, there's no point in playing an Aggro Loam deck in a combo meta. You're just going to lose. And be frustrated while you do it.

Wish/Fires makes any of those slow control decks much easier.

There are three options with Loam and Sylvan:

Replace both Sylvan draws with Dredges: Pay 4 life or put the one card you drew on top of library.
Replace one Sylvan draw with Dredge: For each of...

I'm saying it is ridiculous to say that grave hate makes Fires garbage when it is stronger against GY hate than anything else GY based (Loam, Knight, Goyf, etc...) in the deck.

By that argument, Loam is terrible in the deck. You either hold it until you have enough mana and cycle lands or hope they don't have GY hate. Oh, except that you can protect Fires from Extirpate,...

Then you're not playing Fires right.

Ok, it can be Extirpated. If you're playing correctly, it shouldn't be. The Extirpate is just an example anyway. Extirpate is probably the best GY hate card to play against Loam and even it is...

I like the idea of 4x Punishing Fire 0x Seismic. They really accomplish the same thing by having a late game win condition and removal for creatures that need to die.

The differences IMO:
Fires...

There are answers to Show if you run a Wishboard. Either Retribution of the Meek or Persish. Or Chainer's Edict if they don't have any other creatures. Sneak is much harder if they play correctly...

I don't think you're giving Knight a fair shake at all. I tested both and always wanted Knight over Crusher.

Crusher comes into play as a 3/3. Knight doesn't have to and most of the time it...

I found Knight to be much better than Crusher. I really like the Lavamancer idea though. I don't know that he needs to be played instead of Punishing Fires though. The two can go together.

If...

And blow up your Moxen?

IMO, you can run all 4 colors to get the best of everything:

Dark Confidant
Knight of the Reliquary
Punishing Fire
Seismic Assault

Along with that, the lands to...