Quote Originally Posted by jamest View Post
I've been trying out Think Twice in place of Standstill.
A quick two problems with this:

1. Standstill always provides more CA for less mana (+2 for 2 vs +1 for 2+3).
2. Think Twice is only better if your opponent is not playing spells after Standstill comes down.

There are only a few decks that have been known to get away with this:

Rabid Wombat
Rifter
Quinn the Eskimo

for a few examples.

Almost every other deck is pretty much declaring how royally screwed it is. The fact that you are both sculpting your hands is not relevant; them popping your Standstill just makes your amazing hand even more amazing. At this point the amount of amazing in your hand should be defined by: The limit as X approaches infinity of X^X.

Anything less would be impossible. Unless you ran Think Twice. In that case you'd have just done +1 to hand earlier and been forced to discard to it.