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I've been going back and forth on Search for Azcanta in my chalice builds. I do like it, and it's certainly good against Grixis and Miracles, but it's also quite slow. I've been liking Flusterstorm...

As cool an idea as this is, I'm a little confused about what you gain by doing this. If you're that worried about Sneak and Show/Big Eldrazi, you can easily run graveyard hate. You can even get away...

How do you combo on turn 3 if you're holding the Painter in hand until you can go off? I don't see how you're hitting 5 mana to play and activate in the same turn. Or is that a separate point?

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Some nice, grindier lists being posted. To those of you on builds with fewer sol lands (@drude1, @felipe_tardoqui), what would you estimate your average combo turn to be? How well does the...

I think you've misunderstood the point I'm making. What you're doing is exactly what I suggest we should do in terms of evaluating how and why it is worth playing Painter decks. All of the things you...

Yeah, that actually makes sense now that I look at your previous post. Sorry! Yeah, when I played a UB version of the Chalice deck I found Tezzeret, AoB to be fairly underwhelming. You don't have...

In the somewhat limited experience I've had with the whir deck, chalice is a hell of a card, but it's obviously not a brainstorm deck and it felt slower than most other painter decks to me. I would...

Yeah, with a Welder Transmute gets a lot better. I'd just hesitate to call it extra copies of a card like Damping Sphere because the effect isn't game winning against most decks and you'd probably be...

Yeah, you're right that Transmute Artifact gives you a few extra outs to things. Still, Transmute is pretty slow and card disadvantage as opposed to card advantage like Recruiter, so using it to find...

I played a similar list to yours (no Copters) over the weekend in a league, unfortunately finishing 2-3. I found that the deck does powerful things, but that the mana is just atrocious. Baleful Strix...

Don't Sphere of Resistance and Thorn of Amethyst already do this job? The trade-off being that Thorn taxes some of our spells but Damping Sphere makes our sol lands worse. That said, in builds like...

What does Damping Sphere provide the deck with that it can't already get with other cards? Not that I can't see it being useful, but genuinely interested in where people see it as having the most...