Quote Originally Posted by k2thej View Post
Nihil's list def isn't bad. It's actually insanely similar to the list I ran before I started using Emrakul. I just think wish, like you said, is more consistent. I tested GSZ last night by essentially playing with my wish build and then every time I had a wish I asked myself "would I rather have had this be a GSZ?" I will continue to do this to see which one I end up wanting more, though wish was def in the lead after last night.
The way you've described your test doesn't seem like it's doing the test justice. I admit I might be jumping on semantics here, though. Let me ask: are you playing your deck as though you have GSZ in it, or are you just playing your deck like you're packing Wishes and evaluating the GSZs based on situations you naturally play yourself into where Wish would clearly have been the better card? The way you've described it, it seems as though you're playing your deck the way you've practiced since you made the change to a Wish-based list, and when you finally draw the card in question you're evaluating it based on a situation that you would navigate yourself into with the expectation that you would be able Wish for something.

What I'm seeing is that even if your only switch was Wish for GSZ (which probably wouldn't be the genuine case, given that your deck doesn't have any other "combo" win condition in the main), your deck would require an different playstyle that cannot accurately be represented from the testing, as you've portrayed it.

I think you'll find that you're doomed to butt heads over this until you agree to disagree because you are arguing about two different cards that serve two different roles in two different decks--and these decks are specifically tailored to your respective playstyles. Living Wish is your main win condition, and your answer to problem cards. In Nihil's Deck, Green Sun's Zenith isn't the win condition at all. It functions as extra copies of Summoner's Pact. How can you argue which one is better in your deck when the very inclusion of one card over another actually changes the entire focus of the deck?