Quote Originally Posted by Brael View Post
My experience has been that with Nic Fit, or any other ramp deck for that matter, that if you don't get your mana sources you're basically not in the game. I've tried solving this for Nic Fit by attacking it from both ends. First of all, I'll continue advocating the idea of going wide, lowering your curve, and increasing card velocity. That way you can still play when you don't have mana, you just do more when you do. The other solution I've found though is to increase my ability to ramp. I don't think that 4 Veteran Explorer/4 Cabal Therapy is enough. Instead, I supplement my Explorers with Deathrite Shamans going up to 6 sources of mana (and in my SB I have another 4 sources, sometimes they swap for Vets, sometimes they just come in), and I increase the sacrifice side too. I run 1 Phyrexian Tower which adds a 5th sacrifice outlet. Additionally, I use 2-3 Crop Rotations (current MB is 2) so that I have 7 draws for a sacrifice effect. Last, I've been using Strangleroot Geist as an additional sacrifice target for the Tower. All of this combines to give me some pretty stable acceleration as long as I still keep in mind not losing to a Swords to Plowshares or a Wasteland.
Is this your GB humans list? This is the direction I am headed for this deck, going wide and using mana to increase velocity/use Top/Deeds rather than casting fatties. Also I've added more removal than my lists with larger threats. It's a little counter-intuitive coming from slamming Rhinos and Prime-Times but it's been working for me.

I see two ways to build NicFit- with cards like DRS, and also Dryad Arbor, Meren, and perhaps other crits like Bob who need to stay in play. Here you need to play many creatures with the same vulnerability to removal to overload their removal. The other way is with only value creatures so that you don't care about removal; and I have moved in this direction.

Quote Originally Posted by Arianrhod View Post
Pulse was good in its versatility. Took out anything ranging from Baleful Strix to Food Chain to Rest in Peace on the day.
Have you considered Living wish? I realize the downside is that it takes too many slots but this card has been a house for me acting as a Maelstrom pulse for 1GBB that can also win the game. I recommend starting with a tight package of Vampire Hexmage, Shriekmaw, Wasteland, and Gaea's Revenge. Also this doesn't kill Baleful Strix. but it seems like it might be awesome in a list that could play Gaea's Revenge (or ANY other fatty) for R.

Edit: I know you have considered the card,but have you recently considered it for this list?