Quote Originally Posted by Silverdragon View Post
I just tried to make a post comparing Nassif's board to Probasco's but the forums make it look ugly so I stopped. Anyway if you compare the functionality of the cards they are very very similar. Both have 3 cheap graveyard hating cards, both have 2 Blasts, both have 1 KGrip (and 2 more cards specifically hating on Affinity) and both have about the same amount of hate for tribal decks and creatures in general. The Duresses are the only big difference but I think Nassif just wanted to tune his deck more against creatures (and maybe focus more on controling the opponents creatures in the mirror instead of controling the stack)
Seriously? Brassman plays Legacy all the time; his board was planned. Nassif plays Legacy...never; his board was random good stuff. That's not a planned side-board, nor did he have a side-board strategy. Nassif is just good enough at MTG that it didn't prevent him from reaching the top 8.