
Originally Posted by
Arsenal
As someone who has a very skilled AnT player in my playgroup, this certainly isn't how the majority of games go. The vast majority of games involve multiple cantrips to sculpt their hand through multiple turns. If AnT has the nut, sure, it doesn't really matter what you did, but if they don't (and they often don't), then they crutch pretty hard on their cantrips/dig spells. SoL shuts down 12-16 of them.
Also, AnT doesn't run Thoughtseize maindeck, virtually all builds are going with Cabal Therapy/Gitaxian Probe + Duress package. I've seen a couple builds run 1-2 Thoughtseize in the SB, but even that's not very common.