Quote Originally Posted by crowe_1 View Post
I’m curious why no one has tried Xantid Swarm too now that you mention it. Works for Storm.
A number of very good Storm players have been having success with Xantid Swarm, but I've never liked it because it's only good against opposing hands with one piece of interaction—an unlikely scenario in a postboard game. Think of it this way: if the opponent has countermagic or removal, it does nothing; if your opponent doesn't, it does nothing. Sure, you'll strip out one piece of interaction with it (if you're lucky), but we're a combo deck. We can't expect our opponents to keep a hand on the strength of a singleton Force or Swords.

Hope just feels worse in every way: it has to connect, it has to dodge Karakas (which is already a danger for this deck), and it can get Pithing Needled.