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Jun 9, 2012 -- 11:27PM, Mise_Mage wrote:

Jun 9, 2012 -- 4:26PM, Kinsonal wrote:

or should i replace the pithing needle for another grace?

Don't replace the Pithing Needle as it can help against decks that have activated abilities and helps against hate cards, if anything I would take out 2 Relic and consider adding 2  Early Frost  its like a "pusedo" timewalk in the early game against most decks or 1 Spell Pierce and 1 Angel's Grace , the thing to remember about artifacts in our sideboard is that we can search for them through Reshape when they are in our main deck.

I still don't get- why angels grace? If you want to defeat burn, I say the best card is Thopter foundry .

Jun 10, 2012 -- 10:58AM, Kfir wrote:

Jun 9, 2012 -- 11:27PM, Mise_Mage wrote:

Jun 9, 2012 -- 4:26PM, Kinsonal wrote:

or should i replace the pithing needle for another grace?

Don't replace the Pithing Needle as it can help against decks that have activated abilities and helps against hate cards, if anything I would take out 2 Relic and consider adding 2  Early Frost  its like a "pusedo" timewalk in the early game against most decks or 1 Spell Pierce and 1 Angel's Grace , the thing to remember about artifacts in our sideboard is that we can search for them through Reshape when they are in our main deck.

I still don't get- why angels grace? If you want to defeat burn, I say the best card is Thopter foundry .

Angel's Grace isn't anti burn tech, its anti-Storm, anti-Mirror, anti-Living End, anti-Affinty.

Jun 10, 2012 -- 2:19PM, Kinsonal wrote:

i updated my sideboard.  I thought 1 crypt might be enough since i can tutor for it for 2 mana with reshape. and it can be put back into play.  Other than spell pierce is there any other way to deal with extraction effects? Maybe extraction itself?

I think you are concentrating too much on cards that wreck the deck, have a look here www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=2671&d=217284 you will see exactly one deck playing an extraction and guess what we got that one covered with  Conjurer's Bauble , Noxious Revival and Silence on our upkeep on the turn we go off, worst case scenario is they exile Misty Rainforest or Star or sphere if we didn't have a white source, but like I said we have Conjurer's Bauble and  Noxious Revival too.

Jun 10, 2012 -- 9:55PM, Kinsonal wrote:

The point of a sideboard is to defend against hate and wreck other decks.

I guess a sideboard could be viewed as a way to defend against hate and wreck other decks, but I prefer to think of a sideboard as  an extension of your deck and should be designed with cards that would give you the best answers, my sideboard are cards I would play main deck against decks if I had prior knowledge I would face that deck, my sideboard has what is called "generic" answers to  most decks, the reason is the same  way I hinder aggro by using Silence on thier upkeep to "pusedo timewalk" thier turn to victory, is the same way I hinder the person who sided in Surgical Extraction , Extirpate , Pact of Negation or Mindbreak Trap  by using the exact same spell Silence but this time on my upkeep on the turn I can go off.