Quote Originally Posted by Machahiko View Post
Good question, in this deck I just feel like it's a card that can be cut out easily. Other easy cuts are Preordains and the singleton SDT or Cabal Ritual, besides that taking out any of the other cards feels like diluting or taking out too good pieces of your deck. I find Discard hard to cut and the fast mana is very good as well. What would you suggest to take out instead of Gitaxian Probes - Preordains & Lotus Petals or something completely different?
Lotus petal is another card, that quickly creates thresh and is a red initial mana, so i doubt it. Easy cut is duress in matchups against maverick, D&T or Show&Tell (leyline) and the beforementioned preordain and a single ponder/sdt(/CabalRitual/LED). Depending on your opponent you might wanna board out Ad Nauseam (Burn or even tempo) or EtW (Elves, Batterskull, miracles). That should make easily 4 or even more spots to board in hate