On a whole, the avoidance of anti-synergistic elements, or “nonbos” is one of the most overstated concepts in competitive Magic. Turns out that’s a pretty good trade-off on his end. ![]() Sure, the Lands player couldn’t resolve a good chunk of his deck, but I couldn’t resolve the spells I needed to beat him. I thought about it a little bit, and realised that it didn’t. My friend’s response to my complaint that the Lands player’s Chalice turned off most of his own spells: “Does it matter?” After losing the game convincingly, I wished my opponent good luck in the Top 8, and ventured off to complain to a friend about what I had just experienced. Chalice wasn’t even on my radar, as I had seen their whole deck with my Surgical Extractions in the game prior. ![]() Their deck has Gamble, Exploration, Crop Rotation, Manabond, and sometimes even Molten Vortex, and their Chalice just turned off all of that! It appeared my opponent brought in some spice for Game 3, and I was not prepared. My opponent opened with Taiga, Crop Rotation into Ancient Tomb, Chalice of the Void for 1. I had a Deathrite Shaman, a Surgical Extraction, a Wasteland, and enough other lands to not randomly lose to a Wasteland of theirs. ![]() Opening hands for Game 3 were drawn, and I felt great. I had convinced myself that I had finally figured out how to play the matchup, and after quickly losing to a Marit Lage in the first game, managed to rally back and Surgically Extract all of my opponent’s win conditions in Game 2. At a fateful win-and-in some time ago, I was playing Legacy Grixis Delver against my old nemesis, Lands.
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