Sideboarding Silence in Burn
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Posted on Aug. 10, 2023, 1:31 p.m. by Icbrgr
Does Silence work as a good sideboard card in Burn?
Im looking to bring "Life Total Control" ....Burn... to my LGS looking to capitalize on people running The One Ring but Cascade decks are in my opinion "The Deck to Beat."
I saw an Aspiring Spike Video on ChannelFireball and he was using it as a sideboard card for that matchup over Hallowed Moonlight which is what I usually ty to use. But I haven't seen anyone else using it on MTGTop8 or anything that I've noticed... admittedly the Video I watch was over a year old at this point.
It seems like a neat card... Does anyone have any insight or tips on using Silence? or have an alternative? or perhaps a different mindset altogether?
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I think because in my decklist in particular i'm running Shard Volley the mana would probably be relevant and come up a lot. Silence in general just seems like a really odd card; ive known about it for years now but I have never really been sure how to use it outside of Isochron Scepter abuse in Turbofog decks shotgunning the spell at the beginning of the opponents upkeep... I've never used it strategically before.
can you think of another relevant scenario silence could be used in burn? or is it pretty much a cascade hate card? because that's something about Hallowed Moonlight that kinda bugged me.
August 10, 2023 5:09 p.m.
wallisface says... #4
The applications I can think of:
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as already mentioned, to stop cascading into Rhinos or LivingEnd. This will be its main application.
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to stop Prime-Titan decks from automatically winning the turn they cast a Summoner's Pact. As they’ll probably waste a turn paying for the pact, this might buy you 2 turns so is probably worth it.
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used at the right time completely turns off Storm.
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in response to a Grief/Fury cast from scam to prevent it being reanimated & beating you down
August 10, 2023 6:40 p.m.
Wow those sound like some really neat tricks!
As always wallisface you are just an outstanding source of help/information/insight. You have helped me many times before and I just wanna say thanks and I appreciate it!
August 10, 2023 6:56 p.m.
wallisface says... #6
Icbrgr thanks heaps! It means a lot :)
Also note while those ideas feel strong on paper, i’m not super-sure if it is correct to sideboard in Silence for all of those matchups/situations, so will require playtesting. In burn the card has to buy you at least 2 turns to be worth it imo, to compensate for the fact its not dealing 3-to-face.
August 10, 2023 7:11 p.m.
plakjekaas says... #7
I thought the sideboard card Burn uses to fight Cascade is Roiling Vortex, because the "5 damage to the face"-line of text punishes it really well.
August 12, 2023 6:57 p.m.
@plakjekaas I think Roiling Vortex has outright become a mainboard card in burn. Eidolon of the Great Revel seems to be being pushed out altogether due to the rise of popularity of answers to it without punishment i.e. Leyline Binding/Fury/Solitude.
wallisface says... #2
It probably comes down to whether you think the 1-mana cost is more important than the card draw.
August 10, 2023 3:29 p.m.