Quote Originally Posted by The_Dingo View Post
Thanks for the report and congrats on a good run with some interesting SB technology.

I thought I'd point our that merfolk is a MU where we don't want to bring in chalice OTV. They very frequently play 4 maindecked copies of their own, and the only 1 CMC spell in the deck is cursecatcher. In contrast, we like out 1 CMC spells quite a bit. Even if you had found a gamble, exploration, or crop rotation while hiding under chasm your own chalice would have countered it.
Yeah, that's true for sure, things I had in mind choosing this card from sideboard were: Vial first, Needle on Stage second. After Game 1 I was sure he would counter Cropp or Gamble anyway and I could Grip my own Chalice anytime (what I did in the end, so I could play Gamble... that was countered immediately :) ), but I'd rather play differently next time. All in all, I feel I should win this one, but I was facing a player who plays merfolks since they emerged as competitive deck, so I can try to excuse myself to myself