Quote Originally Posted by Esper3k View Post
Is Sheoldred that much better than Angel of Despair though?

Angel just stomps Show & Tell even if they drop Omniscience.
I forgot to respond to this, but basically Tidespout is better than Angel because

- it's blue (relevant because the blue count for FoW is fairly low)
- deals with multiple trouble permanents (very relevant if you face decks like Enchantress, 12Post, any Stax variant, etc. - Angel will rarely be able to cut it here)
- it's a much better stand-alone threat than Angel because it can keep the entire board under control if they have no removal. Angel can easily be raced even if she blows up a threat.

It's true that Angel is better against S&T -> Omniscience -> Emrakul, but this matchup is fairly easy to begin with, and that sequence of plays is fairly unlikely anyway. If they go S&T -> Omni -> Wish, then Tidespout is only worse than Angel if you don't have an instant to cast. If they have Emrakul instead of Wish, you'll need 2 instants, so here Angel is definitely better. But all of this is fairly irrelevant since Reanimator basically murders OmniTell before they can even try to pull any of that off.

I'm not sure what Sheoldred is supposed to do. It seems completely useless and redundant to me, but I do know that most Magic players value winning in spectacular fashion above everything else, so I'm guessing she's a shining star in that regard.



To the people who play Duress: Never ever add this card to your 75 before playing 4 Thoughtseize, and even then you'd probably never want it. Duress is actually almost unplayable in this deck.