..just to name a few, and there are more! For only 2 mana it stops the majority of the combo decks and leaves you with mana up to counter their counters if they have them. So why is this card not seeing more play? or is it already being played and if so, in what decks? what alternatives do people prefer in their sideboards?
Because it's completely blank vs some very prominent and strong decks like Burn, Infect, and Affinity. Even then against a majority of decks its dead except against the very top end of the curve.
Just because it counters Splinter Twin doesn't mean its good against the Twin deck.
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If you couldn't tell I hate greedy blue decks.
Negate also hit Jeskai Ascendancy back in the day (while Disdainful Stroke couldn't).
If all you expect are combo decks, you're willing to lose percentage points against UR Storm, and you're willing to need other Living End hate, Disdainful Stroke looks decent. If you expect some control decks with cheaper board wipes, Negate starts looking better. (If you're on UR Twin, I'd steer you far away from Disdainful Stroke and push you right into Negate, as Negate is much better combo protection for Twin.)
Disdainful Stroke can't hit most Burn and Infect spells, so it is probably be an sideboard card. But it being so narrow even just to mainboard why not just put Negate in it's place?
Consider that negate hits all of burn's spell, infect pump spells, summer's bloom, scapeshift, splinter twin, planeswalkers (liliana and karn), other counters (Cryptic Command, Remand, etc), Artifacts (Amulet) while costing the same CMC, this is why it doesn't see play.
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Okay so the consensus is that it's better to answer all non-creature spells than all spells above 4cmc.
I'm curious to know then, what if your deck ran a lengthy low cmc counter suite of Spell Pierce, Spell Snare, Remand, and Mana Leak. The bases are covered main deck, is Disdainful Stroke still not worth running in the sideboard for the matchups with the big spells? being played over something like Gaddock Teeg or Negate? It can hit creatures, I feel like that is being overlooked?
Okay so the consensus is that it's better to answer all non-creature spells than all spells above 4cmc.
I'm curious to know then, what if your deck ran a lengthy low cmc counter suite of Spell Pierce, Spell Snare, Remand, and Mana Leak. The bases are covered main deck, is Disdainful Stroke still not worth running in the sideboard for the matchups with the big spells? being played over something like Gaddock Teeg or Negate? It can hit creatures, I feel like that is being overlooked?
Normally creatures are easier to remove via removal spells, such as lightning bolt, path, dismember, smother, etc.
And normally it's spells that matter since they could instantly win games (Splinter twin, scapeshift, burn spells, infect pump, unburial rites etc) outside of creature spells like kiki-jiki or primeval titan.
Also countering planeswalkers are much more reasonable as there are not much spells that remove planeswalker in the format yet.
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Scapeshift
Splinter Twin
Unburial Rites
Batterskull
Wurmcoil Engine
Karn Liberated
Primeval Titan
Wrath of God
Cryptic Command
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Siege Rhino
..just to name a few, and there are more! For only 2 mana it stops the majority of the combo decks and leaves you with mana up to counter their counters if they have them. So why is this card not seeing more play? or is it already being played and if so, in what decks? what alternatives do people prefer in their sideboards?
Just because it counters Splinter Twin doesn't mean its good against the Twin deck.
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Negate also hit Jeskai Ascendancy back in the day (while Disdainful Stroke couldn't).
If all you expect are combo decks, you're willing to lose percentage points against UR Storm, and you're willing to need other Living End hate, Disdainful Stroke looks decent. If you expect some control decks with cheaper board wipes, Negate starts looking better. (If you're on UR Twin, I'd steer you far away from Disdainful Stroke and push you right into Negate, as Negate is much better combo protection for Twin.)
Consider that negate hits all of burn's spell, infect pump spells, summer's bloom, scapeshift, splinter twin, planeswalkers (liliana and karn), other counters (Cryptic Command, Remand, etc), Artifacts (Amulet) while costing the same CMC, this is why it doesn't see play.
Modern : Huh?
EDH : UBGW Thrasios / Tymna Combo UBGW // GRW Mayael Big Stuff GRW // GU Edric Timewalkers GU
I'm curious to know then, what if your deck ran a lengthy low cmc counter suite of Spell Pierce, Spell Snare, Remand, and Mana Leak. The bases are covered main deck, is Disdainful Stroke still not worth running in the sideboard for the matchups with the big spells? being played over something like Gaddock Teeg or Negate? It can hit creatures, I feel like that is being overlooked?
Normally creatures are easier to remove via removal spells, such as lightning bolt, path, dismember, smother, etc.
And normally it's spells that matter since they could instantly win games (Splinter twin, scapeshift, burn spells, infect pump, unburial rites etc) outside of creature spells like kiki-jiki or primeval titan.
Also countering planeswalkers are much more reasonable as there are not much spells that remove planeswalker in the format yet.
Modern : Huh?
EDH : UBGW Thrasios / Tymna Combo UBGW // GRW Mayael Big Stuff GRW // GU Edric Timewalkers GU