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How is the user CabalTherapy recommending Thoughtseize over Therapy? What is the world coming to?

Full Sideboard Plan

Note that this is blue splash, not white or green. I don't remember if it mattered with white or green but obviously you can't bring in moon in matches where you also want...

What Blood Moon is good for

- Denying Deathrite+Delver decks access to Spell Pierce, Daze, and green mana for Deathrite. Because Delver is better at 1for1ing you into oblivion, I often find I...

Considering the event is 20 minutes from my house I ought to be there, but that weekend has several other plans so I'm only about 50% to show up.

If you're actually tracking things, do you mind if I suggest a system for evaluating sideboard utility? I outlined it in this blog post but the short version is this: Every sideboard game should fit...

Agreed. In my version with the blue splash with Iona/Elesh main, I side Elesh out for whatever the most likely to be relevant sideboard card is depending on the current build, and call it a day. ...

Weird. I looked at page one as well and somehow just missed that entire column. My bad then.

This is excellent and definitely looks like you put a lot of work into it.

The only comment I would have is that I think the biggest thing people new to the deck have trouble with is not "what...

They play more creatures than we're going to board in answers. They also play more answers than we play threats. Getting into any sort of back and forth with Delver seems like a very bad place to...

It's *so* bad against Leovold I'm gunshy. If you can come up with a sideboard plan for Pile and such that leaves you with extra slots just for Delver, I suppose that might work. The card has always...

At GP Louisville I played 1 Ashen Rider, 1 Blazing Archon, and 0 Tidespout Tyrant. I beat lands twice, sneak and show twice, and won two reanimator mirrors. In fact I distinctly remember beating...

Don't blame me, blame the flavor text writer.

Agreed.

And yet, I have lost to lands with a Tidespout in play.

I'm not saying Ashen Rider is better than tidespout in all situations. I'm saying that in *some* situations Tidespout is way...

Rider actually answers something permanently. Tidespout bounces it once, then if you can't keep playing spells they just replay it. Very different, especially when you're talking about things like...

OK that's all I was seeing. 8 instants isn't enough to make me include him on the basis of that interaction. To me it's far more likely to have him in play with no cards in hand than to have him in...

Yeah I guess that's the call. I just hate having permanent hate in my board vs Delver. They've got discard and countermagic I need to deal with, diluting my deck with something that answers...

What am I missing that makes his interaction with Animate Dead good?

I prefer Ashen Rider to Tidespout Tyrant, but if you do that you really also need to be playing Blazing Archon. Tyrant gives you both effects in one maindeckable slot, Archon + Rider requires two...

Yeah Pile is definitely better than Delver, but sometimes they just play a turn 2 Leovold and you're staring at a handful of cantrips and want to stab yourself. Sideboarding against that is...

Yeah I bought some after his storm primer and tried it. Never liked it. Holding up two mana, one of them red, against those decks was always super hard.

There were a few 5-0s a while back with...

I've been playing Grixis Control lately and I've lost twice in a row to storm, so it's not unwinnable for storm. But I'll admit those felt like flukes and I think the matchup is in Grixis's favor. ...

I never actually liked Chrome Mox. It's great *after* reanimating Griselbrand, when you can draw a lot and it gives you another starting mana source to cast rituals and stuff with, but before...

No splash is agreed upon. Honestly, I doubt one will ever be agreed upon. If what you're currently playing is working, stick with it. If what you're currently playing is not working, try one of...

True. I've been playing combo decks in legacy for a long time. I sideboard for the cards they're likely to have, not for something they could technically cast. If Death and Taxes shows up with...

I agree completely on Brutality being great, but I think the cut is Thoughtseize, not Unmask. I'd still recommend playing 4 Unmask and also playing Brutality. At Louisville (which was admittedly...