Quote Originally Posted by Forbiddian View Post
It's like if somebody said Force of Will does nothing because Chant/Silence/Duress/Thoughtseize is game. Combo can always trump any answer by getting Chant/Thoughtseize off, and a Zoo deck (naturally an extremely fast clock) suddenly forcing a combo player to grab answers before trying to go off? Win.
This analogy doesn't work because the kind of decks that have Force of Will almost always have other counters as well. Mental Misstep would be Zoo's only counter, so you would need to have more than one in hand to deal with a Tendrils chain that starts with discard or Chanting. That's fairly unlikely depending on how many turns have elapsed and whether you run Sylvan Library; however, drawing that many Mental Missteps means you're drawing less threats, which slows your clock down. In other decks, there are more possible hands where you have more than one counter simply because there are more counters in your deck.

There's no real way to use Misstep effectively in Zoo because it doesn't have the supporting architecture to use it to its fullest. A random counter that doesn't even hit some of the most important spells in most storm decks is not really frightening, especially when Zoo's other combo hate is not really that great. I mean, maybe you can build a critical mass of combo hate, but I'm skeptical that devoting that much sideboard space to a relatively rare matchup is the best plan, and there are a lot of decks that (a) beat Zoo in a way Zoo isn't geared to interacting with, and (b) don't really fold to the sort of combo hate Zoo would be running (Teeg, Canonist, Mindbreak Trap, Null Rod). If anything, Zoo is probably just going to do what it's always done, which is play the metagame/pairings lottery and hope that SnT decks don't see a sudden resurgence.