Quote Originally Posted by Pittplayer View Post
Force of Despair seems like good sidehoard tech vs Elves, Reanimator, Death and Taxes, and Goblins. Pox decks struggle against swarm decks and combo decks. The instant speed and being free to play could break a elves player combo turn. Thoughts?
The exact way this card works makes it an extremely poor fit for pox in my opinion. Mainly because it only hits creatures that entered the battlefield *this turn*, so if you topdeck when you're already behind then it doesn't do anything, and you have no option to cast it for any kind of value so you're stuck between either holding it and waiting for your opponent to play a creature, or discarding it to your Liliana

Then if we assume you start with it in your opening hand every time you can consider the possible matchups where you want this card
- Griselbrand will still draw 7 in response so it's not much different to an innocent blood and just like every other card you could play Iona on black makes this uncastable
- Goblins doesn't really play multiple things in one turn
- Neither does DNT, and in your mono-black removal deck do you really need to force of will a mother of runes or a stoneforge
- Against elves it's okay, you could disrupt a combo turn by killing Nettle Sentinel and Heritage Druid, for example, but this seems like it should already be an easy matchup for Pox

It does seem really good against turn 1 empty the warrens but it seems like there are better options vs basically every other deck where this card would do something (NOSB or engineered plague etc)