Quote Originally Posted by alfthefurryalien View Post
So at the earliest your answers to vial come online turn 2 (excluding FoW) and thats if you spend your first two turns killing it with EE. If you use pridemage you can kill it turn three by which they can already cast possibly 2 dudes. Im not saying those are bad answers to vial im just saying that if you are dedicating your early turns dealing with vial you are not going to have time to cast your 3 CC sorcery
Test it. You have goyf, stop, knight and counters to buy time. You dont need to wing shards on turn3. You wing shards when you see the oppotunity. You can also daze your own brainstorm (and pay for it) to kill 3 with any help of your oponent if you are desesperate. You are turning your instant cantrips and extra counters to removal.

Wing Shars vs Firespout

Firespout can be better maybe. But i want to stay 3 colors. For me the benefits of the extra color dont pay for the added vulnerability to mana denial. Especially against Tempo Thresh.

Firespout build: Better vs Zoo, Gobos, Merfolk weaker vs mana denial, mirror.
Wing shards: worse vs merfolk, Ok vs Zoo, Gobos, better vs mirror, Thresh, NO-Progenitus, agroo-loam, anything with counters.

People are metagaming hugely for zoo and i expect more combo, reanimator and agroo-control than ever.