Quote Originally Posted by square_two View Post
Light up the Stage also greatly enhances sideboard hate like Tormod's Crypt/Surgical and Mindbreak Trap. Dig two cards deeper, and even if you exhaust your mana (say doing a Bolt + LutS on T2) then you can still deploy what you find.

Edit: I guess there is a pro/con. Having Mindbreak/Surgical in exile means they are safe from discard. But there is then a time limit (by next turn) to use them if available this way. Hm.
good catch. exiling mindbreak trap is a straight up time walk vs storm, and surgical can be close to that vs reanimator. really nice find.

interesting idea lyle moving the price of progress to the sb. i think it's a little risky as it is able to steal games. i'd consider only running 2 skewer (b/c it doesn't work super well with swiftspear) or 2 lava spike and keeping 2 PoP.