Quote Originally Posted by Echelon View Post
I may be nitpicking here, but if a 4 mana card is too slow to be reliably used as a SB card, why would you replace it with 2 5(!) mana cards..? Seems very counterproductive.
The idea behind Baloth was to have a Sideboard card against discard heavy decks with Liliana and have an additional splash use against Burn. It turned out, the splash use against Burn didn't exist because it was too slow, so it turned into a sideboard card that was only relevant against Liliana decks. So instead i play Nissa to have a different card that's useful against Liliana decks and also useful against other slow decks (like UWx decks), but unfortunately useless against Burn.

I don't have enough data yet to know if i need something against Burn in that slot instead, but probably not - i can disrupt them with discard and race them with Marit Lage, if i want lifegain i have Courser and Scooze. Technically, i don't have enough data to know if i want these slots against slower decks at all, so maybe i end up with something completely different. (Yesterday i tried it with just 1 Nissa and only 1 Explosives and 2 Pernicious Deed instead. In 11 matches Deed was relevant exactly once, but in that spot won me the game.)