Quote Originally Posted by Epeirogeny View Post
If you're splashing black, why not try out some number of deathrite shamans. It's in almost every deck. Why not lands if you're going b/g like everything else.

How does everyone feel about Chalice of the Void? More and more I have thought about cutting it from the sideboard and finally did. I had it in there for several months. I never liked it. Can't cast it on 2 obviously. 1 never seems right even if an exploration is on board, may be a correct line in .01% of board states/situations. Even on 0, it always somehow ended up on the board right before I drew a mox diamond.
Regarding Deathrite, I'm not sure you want to be turning on an opponent's creature removal in the first game. His abilities are also relatively mediocre with our game plan as we'd rather keep lands in our graveyard and chipping away at an opponent's life total often doesn't matter if you're swinging in with a 20/20. The ability to protect your Dark Depths and Loams from Surgical is kind of neat I guess.

Never a huge fan of Chalice as well and it looks like most players have already moved away from it in favor of Sphere effects instead.