Green isn't seen as necessary anymore, being only used mostly for three different cards: Abrupt Decay, Carpet of Flowers, and Xantid Swarm. Each of these cards is good and has some potential use, but it was really only Decay's uniquely uncounterable property and its necessity against Counterbalance that made it ubiquitous. Once you've got green in the deck, Carpet and Swarm open up and were often used on that basis.
Carpet really shines against decks with a lot of taxing permission, Pierce and Daze, but there's not so much RUG Delver any longer. Grixis is more common and uses discard. Carpet is helpful there too, in that it can make up for a discarded ritual, but this effect isn't really worth splashing for by itself when the straight Duress/Therapy and basic lands should be fine for the matchup.
Xantid Swarm was also a card folks brought in for Miracles, and it still has a bunch of value against decks with a sort of "mono counterspell' plan. IE, Landstill, new Miracles, Sneaky Show, etc. Since discard is also fine for these, however, they are quite fine to play instead of the insects and don't involve any contortion of the manabase.
Keeping the manabase as lean and streamlined as possible pays a lot of dividends that aren't always immediately obvious when looking at the deck.
I am looking for some insight on a couple things about ANT. Firstly is dark petition vs grim tutor. In my initial testing I find I like grim tutor a lot more but I am also relatively new to the deck, so it's very possible I am entirely missing lines of play though.
My second question is side board. Caleb Scherer has 2 extra tendrils of agony and 3 chrome mox in board but I haven't seen it in any others. So in a way I am looking for the best sideboard ideas and explanations.
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Carpet really shines against decks with a lot of taxing permission, Pierce and Daze, but there's not so much RUG Delver any longer. Grixis is more common and uses discard. Carpet is helpful there too, in that it can make up for a discarded ritual, but this effect isn't really worth splashing for by itself when the straight Duress/Therapy and basic lands should be fine for the matchup.
Xantid Swarm was also a card folks brought in for Miracles, and it still has a bunch of value against decks with a sort of "mono counterspell' plan. IE, Landstill, new Miracles, Sneaky Show, etc. Since discard is also fine for these, however, they are quite fine to play instead of the insects and don't involve any contortion of the manabase.
Keeping the manabase as lean and streamlined as possible pays a lot of dividends that aren't always immediately obvious when looking at the deck.
Overall record: 139-98-15
Total number of matches: 252
Win percentage ignoring draws: 58.649789
Win percentage including draws: 55.158730
My second question is side board. Caleb Scherer has 2 extra tendrils of agony and 3 chrome mox in board but I haven't seen it in any others. So in a way I am looking for the best sideboard ideas and explanations.
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