Quote Originally Posted by Bahamuth View Post
Why do you still play 3 Wipe Away in your sideboard with the Commands mainboard? What is your boarding plan vs. Thresh?
Haha, silly typo.

// Sideboard
4 Spell Snare
3 Echoing Truth
2 Brain Freeze
2 Wipe Away
1 Meditate
1 Rebuild
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Turnabout

vs. balanced Thresh
+ 2 Wipe Away
- 1 Flash of Insight
- 1 Cunning Wish

vs. tempo Thresh
+ 3 Spell Snare
+ 1 Brain Freeze
- 2 Cryptic Command
- 1 Flash of Insight
- 1 Cunning Wish

I didn't test Cryptic Command intensively yet, so my sideboarding advise is made on a 50 % theoretical base.

Fire//Ice doesn't counter Cryptic Command.
My bad! I looked it up via Virtual Judge, as I think it is a common mistake (hopefully):

Q: If I have Counterbalance in play, and an opponent plays a four mana spell, will revealing Fire / Ice counter that spell due to the total converted mana cost being four?

A: No, the converted mana cost of Fire / Ice is two and two. Counterbalance checks to see if the converted mana cost of the revealed card matches the converted mana cost of the spell on the stack. With split cards, you check each converted mana cost separately. In this example neither of the two converted mana costs (which each happen to be two) match, so this spell will not be countered.