Quote Originally Posted by limbo View Post
Why not split 1 surgical and 1 coffin purge, so you can fetch it via entomb?
the idea of the sideboard was :

a card that beat nearly everything (in instant, if possible) --> decay
a card that beat the rest --> needle
and free cards to be daze/pierce-proof and playable with thalia on board

the problem of a combo deck is the in/out. And i think that this sidetech was good for a tournament like this.

i know that a split would be great but i prefer use my mana to combo fast and keep free cards to crush my opponent's hand / graveyard.

coffin purge is great with entomb to kill any great card in a graveyard but surgical the Fow's of your opponent before the combo let you "safe" : you win the counter war and look at his hand ... so you know everything that you need.

and next time, the archangel will be in MD with sphinx in SB cause of the W.deck > R.deck in my meta.

hope my answer help you ;)