Quote Originally Posted by phazonmuant View Post
I definitely like Ingot Chewer. Making W to cast Wispmare seems tricky, but the opportunity cost is so low that you might as well throw it in the board too.

Regarding Leyline of Anticipation - it seems awesome...but not really needed. Unlike Vintage, there's very few Prison decks or decks with quad Leyline of the Void. I suspect that Unmask, Pact of Negation, and Nature's Claim are better board cards.



I tested both configurations of which man to have in the board, and I found Informer to be vastly better maindeck. Think about it this way. The vast majority of our mana sources are +1s, so the additional mana upfront (i.e. before LED, which is just a ridiculous card) is much more than 33% more mana. It's more like 75% more mana because of issues with having all the cards in hand. Therefore, you want to maximize the configuration that allows you to only need 3 mana.

Your reservations about Summoner's Pact are reasonable. The deck does reload quite well. I'm just very nervous about consistancy with 4 fewer IMSs and a color-fixer. The deck seems to be all-in, so maybe it's a reasonable risk to be all-in like that. SI does it somehow.
This deck plays like dredge, its all in the first game and only really a force will or discard stop will stop it . I almost always have an extra spirit guide to pay for taxing counters. Daze or spell pierce are mute game one and even more so on the play. A single un cracked LED pays for just about any soft counter. You only need to win one out of the two sideboard games. They will board in more counters or graveyard hate. Just take out some of the tutors and put in the pacts of negation and unmasks. You will steal a game most of the time by doing this if you mulligan aggressively. This deck mulligans very well unlike belcher, since the magic mana count is only four and does not need mana bridges. Its super easy to top deck more mana sources after a mulligan once you have a win condition and a sideboard card in hand. I have won many games going down to four or five cards. This deck hands down feels faster then the Spanish Inquisition or Belcher. Also show and tell is a funny match up. They will put your win condition into play for you sometimes.