Quote Originally Posted by sawatarix View Post
has there been a discussion about silence vs. cabal therapy ?

I'm far from a Doomsday expert so i was wondering which kind of protection you prefer and why.
It seems that in a metagame without that many wastelands as it is now, a whitesplash for chants looks appealing.
There has been a lot of discussion about it in the past. There is a whole thread about on Stormboards if you are interested.

Typically it is a metagame call. One package usually has an edge over the other in some matchups. That being said, some people have objective and subjective reasons for chants vs discard beyond just metagame. Wasteland isn't awful for the UBRWg DDFT since you can fetch the basics and the deck functions well off those.

Discard gives you more information on your opponents hand which can help sculpt your decision tree (urgency, angles of disruption, foreshadowing the need for an answer, etc). Chants have advantages in beating certain hatecards, ie an opponent who has Stifle, Surgical Extraction, Pryoblast, Hydroblast is easy for Silence but could be tough for Duress.

This is all obvious stuff that I'm sure you get. I typically favor the setups on either end of the spectrum of 7 chants or 7 discard. I've found the splits to be kind of clunky. There are certainly some good arguments for them. I just like having clearer mana requirement priorities. In matchups when you need to fetch basics you then have to decide whether you need swamp over plains.