Quote Originally Posted by phazonmuant View Post
Nice report, kihachi, congrats on placing in the money!

How do you feel about your list moving forward? Any need to remove S&T or add Silence?
Thanks!

I figured that the lack of Silence and existence of S&T and Decay would be questioned. I don't think Silence would be bad as a 1-2 of, but I wouldn't know what to cut. Don't want to cut a discard spell, as they are protection and potential combo pieces. I could cut what I normally cut to sideboard, which is a Children (bad grammar ftw) and a Chrome Mox, but those both add consistency to the maindeck. On the plus, it would open up Pull from Eternity in the board, but wouldn't allow Abrupt Decay, which I think shores up one of our worst matchups and one that will probably become more prevalent now with two straight SCG wins.

I also loved Show and Tell. It's a great compromise between a transformative sideboard and one with answers. I've also been thinking about Cabal Ritual to go with it in the board to up the off-chance of hardcasting Griz as another way around graveyard hate. S&T is great though because people will just keep hands with graveyard hate and nothing else against you.

As far as the Hulk-Flash inspired version of the deck, I don't know if it'll be that good without Mystical Tutor, but it's probably worth a shot. At the point where you have to cast clunky cards like Lim-Dul's Vault or Spoils of the Vault, it probably isn't better than the original deck (though I definitely could be wrong).

Lim Dul might be an interesting card in its own right, as it offers deep digging for little life loss, but the price of two mana might just be too d*mn high. Spoils looks like it's going to just do too much damage in many cases. When I was testing 4 Probes and 2 Thoughtseizes I honestly had a hard time goldfishing sometimes because of life loss. Granted, not often, but add in the fact that your opponent might slow you down and/or damage you, and its worrisome.