Quote Originally Posted by Manroe View Post
Maybe I should clarify slightly what I meant. I don't think boarding decisions are all that hard. I actually board much like I used to with Elves when I played that awhile back. I just shave down numbers of combo pieces slightly, leaving all of the tutors and go from there. If I'm bringing in bridges, I likely want to hedge on Bob and etc. What I meant was more along the lines of colored mana for non-creature spells isn't always guaranteed and I'm not always confident I'll have it. I think this can be limiting in what exactly makes up the sideboard.

For example, something like abrade doesn't seem terrible to me on paper but between accelerating out my pieces and a lot of chalices on 0 game 2 and 3, I can't always expect to have red with my current mana base. I hope that makes sense.
No that makes perfect sense. I agree that going 4-Color/Humans means that you just can't reasonably sideboard a colored non-creature spell. Outside of Petal/Opal and a tutor/Karn turning on LED, you need to go to Spire of Industry to get access to non-white "natural" colored mana, and that's not really enough to support a card like Abrade. I was asking more what matchup you were trying to shore up by including one, but if your comment was meant as a general "this means I can't Abrade", yes, I have to agree.