Quote Originally Posted by joemauer View Post
I stop playing magic for a little while and you guys have resorted to sideboarding Unmasks and taking LEDs out against RuG?!?! This thread looks like the aftermath of a doomsday movie.

Don't take LED out when playing against Rug. They run a lot of taxing counters, let that sink in for a second.
LED costs zero and is an additional discard outlet while paying for daze and spell pierce to resolve more important spells like Care Study & Breakthrough.

Also, Unmask is awful. It is one of those cards that are good on paper but not in reality. The deck mulls enough as is. To have a hand that can properly abuse Unmask it would have to look like this:
Land+Dredger+Discard Outlet+Draw Spell+Unmask+Xtra Black Card. Unmask will effectively suck in hands with less than six cards. I will concede that Unmask is good when you get it in a playable hand; the only problem is getting Unmask in a playable hand.
Then play Thoughtseize, but I had similar feelings to you until I realized how important it was to be able to cast Unmask thru' Daze in order to discard Rest in Peace, you actually don't need a hand as nearly as powerful as that in order to leverage Unmask.

I think either choice is ok, the point is you need discard vs RIP or you die.