Quote Originally Posted by luckymartyr View Post
Thanks for the responses, I appreciate all the help that I can get. Isn't maindeck pithing needle and chalice of the void a nombo. Don't you pretty much always want to chalice for 1 as soon as possible.
You don't always have Chalice in hand, or you may not be able to resolve it. In this case, Needle just acts as redundancy. There's also some matchups where Chalice comes out but Needle is still useful, such as ITF/4c Landstill.