your deck is markedly worse for including trash cards like boil and guttural response in the mainboard
I dunno, a card like Guttural Response or Burnout is useful to protect your spells if you're not in blue. Also works on Rift.
I'm not saying they don't have an upside, or they can't win the game, of course they can. But if no one is playing blue, those cards are complete blanks. Or even if someone is playing blue, but is playing few instants. Or maybe they're playing counters but they don't counter your spell, but someone else's. And in the absolute best case, the perfect case where you counter their spell and it was super critical? Congrats, you just played dispel. That's your maximum possible value. How many people play dispel? I mean some, but it's far from an auto-include. It's a solid 5x better than guttural response, and it's still just playable.
If you really want to protect your spells so bad just play insist or overmaster. At least it cantrips, plus it pushes that counterspell onto someone else, so your opponents lose CA instead of you.
your deck is markedly worse for including trash cards like boil and guttural response in the mainboard
I dunno, a card like Guttural Response or Burnout is useful to protect your spells if you're not in blue. Also works on Rift.
I'm not saying they don't have an upside, or they can't win the game, of course they can. But if no one is playing blue, those cards are complete blanks. Or even if someone is playing blue, but is playing few instants. Or maybe they're playing counters but they don't counter your spell, but someone else's. And in the absolute best case, the perfect case where you counter their spell and it was super critical? Congrats, you just played dispel. That's your maximum possible value. How many people play dispel? I mean some, but it's far from an auto-include. It's a solid 5x better than guttural response, and it's still just playable.
If you really want to protect your spells so bad just play insist or overmaster. At least it cantrips, plus it pushes that counterspell onto someone else, so your opponents lose CA instead of you.
Well, Burnout (slow) cantrips, while Dispel doesn't (although 2 mana vs. 1 can be relevant). And there are plenty of times where I've countered a counterspell targeting something that's not mine, because I want the original spell to resolve (eg, forcing through a Wrath of God when the UG player is threatening Craterhoof). Overmaster's not useful if you're trying to force through a creature (and if you're not in green, you can't run Insist or Savage Summoning, and vice versa).
It probably helps that my deck with Burnout is Jaya Ballard, so even if there's no blue player at the table, I can turn it into Incinerate or Inferno.
If you really want to protect your spells so bad just play insist or overmaster. At least it cantrips, plus it pushes that counterspell onto someone else, so your opponents lose CA instead of you.
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It probably helps that my deck with Burnout is Jaya Ballard, so even if there's no blue player at the table, I can turn it into Incinerate or Inferno.
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