Quote Originally Posted by URABAHN View Post
You're right, I forgot about Tarmogoyf, I was thinking of Breakfast before Tarmo-tech. Though Obfuscate Freely and Machinus did lose to some awful black decks at GenCon Champs.

I'm beginning to think the haters are mostly correct in bashing Extirpate. I don't like it in the Landstill mirror because it doesn't advance your goals in that matchup. Maybe you get to tag a Wasteland, but you still need to win the match. Maybe you get to tag a Force of Will, but you still need to win the match. It won't stop opposing Soldier tokens, Angel tokens, Mishra's Factories in play, Nantuko Monasteries in play, or Faerie Conclaves in play. Compare it to Haunting Echoes which is absolutely better in the Landstill mirror (but may not be the perfect choice) because it damn near decks your opponent, just about turns off their Crucible of Worlds, and can remove all copies of up to a dozen key cards. Now that will do more to further your goals in the Landstill mirror than Extirpate.
I suppose this is quite a valid argument and you are definitely more experienced with the deck. But most of my builds of landstill do run haunting echoes, and being able to extirpate either counterspell or force of will and then echoes them when they have a crippled counter wall seems strong. This is assuming you run 2 or 3 maindeck echoes with 3 or 4 extirpate in the board (which does handle the ichorid matchup...that deck is strong and beats the shit outa landstill). I guess it really is subjective to the build, but I've always thought that landstill does well with some yard hate in the board and extirpate should be as good a choice as any. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that it can further your gameplan in the control mirror.