Mono Black Sideboard Options Against Storm

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Posted on July 10, 2015, 4:26 p.m. by Coinman1863

Currently, I have I have an answer to everything except storm. Are there any sideboard options for black or do I have to hope they wiff?

GlistenerAgent says... #2

Discard and Leyline of the Void. Or Relic of Progenitus or other grave hate of choice.

July 10, 2015 4:34 p.m.

Coinman1863 says... #3

Would Surgical Extraction be good as well?

July 10, 2015 4:36 p.m.

filledelanuit says... #4

Surgical is good against storm. Just be aware that Leyline is only good against ANT. Against TES or most of the other variants it sucks because they don't rely on Past in Flames. You can also play hand disruption like Duress or Tseize.

July 10, 2015 5:05 p.m.

Coinman1863 says... #5

Yeah, lordoftheshadows I already play tseize, Duress, and hymn. It's just that once they get the combo pieces I can't stop them. So, does extraction seem like the best option here?

July 10, 2015 5:41 p.m.

filledelanuit says... #6

Yea. Surgical is better than leyline against storm although it doesn't guarantee anything.

July 10, 2015 5:43 p.m.

Coinman1863 says... #7

Well, it is better than nothing which is what I currently have.

July 10, 2015 5:51 p.m.

On top of the above, Grafdigger's Cage and Chalice of the Void. Chalice is a gamble, as you can often screw yourself. I use Chalice in 12 Post and in MUD, so it may not be the best choice in mono with a low curve.

July 10, 2015 6:48 p.m.

filledelanuit says... #9

Cage is even worse than leyline because all it takes in one Chain of Vapor or just using Ad Nauseam instead. However Chalice is a real pain in the arse and will bother most storm players.

July 10, 2015 6:56 p.m.
July 10, 2015 10:33 p.m.

filledelanuit says... #11

Trap actually isn't that great because storm should be able to easily discard it. You want something that will stop them from going off in the first place not stop the combo itself.

July 10, 2015 10:54 p.m.

odds are they will cabal therapy for force or hymn or tseize or inquisition so they will be forced to wait for a duress or other cabal therapy if they see trap in order to get it out of your hand, which gives you time to stabilize and draw into hymns and inquisitions and tseizes that will buy you even more time. So even though it may not ever exile all of their tendrils of agony it still prevents them from going off and eventually wins the game.

July 10, 2015 11:13 p.m.

filledelanuit says... #13

First of all, this is game 2 and 3 so I know what to be on the look out for. Since this is a mono black discard deck, I'll name hymn if I have a slow hand and if I have a fast hand I'll name Trap because it is the only card that could kill me. Also Storm runs Gitaxian Probe and Duress both of which make it easy to deal with a Mindbreak trap.

July 11, 2015 7:48 a.m.

Next_rim says... #14

Since you are ramping, Chalice of the Void or Trinisphere will shut down storm for a while. Null Rod can slow them down a bit as well.

Gravehate is ok, but storm can go off w/o using the graveyard, so it's not a 100% solution.

General discard and free counters like Mindbreak Trap work decent as well.

July 27, 2015 6:01 a.m.

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