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…Pithing Needle, Abrupt Decay, Duress, Thoughtseize and Detention Sphere also do a nice job of shutting down Connections. Speaking of…

…card opening hand consisting of Land Grant, Brainstorm, Impulse, Duress, Swords to Plowshares and Wall of Blossoms. Casting Land Grant…

…for a Wild Nacatl, and eight Brainstorms for a Duress. Granted, it’s worse than each of the cards it…

…Maindeck Duress Perhaps this choice isn’t all that unusual anymore. Indeed, a Grand Prix was won by a deck…

…ridiculously unfun except in one-for-one ways like Duress and Cabal Therapy. Fascinatingly, Force of Will is by itself…

…2 x Kitchen Finks 1 x Thoughtseize 1 x Duress 1 x Golgari Charm Buy This List Jund is one…

…Adding cards like Duress and Negate to the maindeck help against the mirror and any other controlling decks. The sideboard…

…the Saheelis and Arclight Phoenixes that had me under duress, and when I thought I finally ran them out of…

…Abrupt Decays for the fast decks or cheap NLPs, Duress for control matchups, Deathrite Shaman for a creature-light and…

…it again. *Black can force discards.* Coercion (which displaces Duress and Ostracize), Mind Sludge, and others means that Black can…

…black control decks deal with the format at large. Duress and Divest are both just on the wrong side of…

…Inquisition of Kozilek, Cabal Therapy, and Duress all see significant play in the non-rotating formats as well, demonstrating the…

…You miss out on first turn Brainstorm, Duress, and Sleight of Hand / Opt opportunities. This means the rest of your…

…a bunch, and have five chances to hit a Duress, for example (or the land to cast it). There are…

…In game 2, our opponents drew far fewer Terminates and far more relevant cards like Duress, Goblin Ruinblaster, and Manabarbs…

…Similarly, cards like Duress and Ostracize are limited discard and can whiff. I’ve also moved away from Skittering Horror…

…Four Duress is a bit excessive in the deck because there are some matchups that demand just a few. The…

…Tog has a much better chance inherently against Aggro and Aggro Control, and has Duress for control and combo. The…

…Place > Premodern Side Event at Lobstercon 2024 presented by Duress Crew > Mono Blue Dreadnought > Deck designed by David Raczka pic…

…could easily see them in Storm combo deck, but Duress or Thoughtseize would work just as well there. There’s…

…and threw a wrench into opposing game plans with Duress and Rapid Decay. To generalize, the deck disrupted opponents, generated…

…who you think will give you any time (Reanimator?). Duress is another Sin Collector that’s friendlier on the curve…

…If your Jund opponent has 7 mana, you can counter that Huntmaster without worrying about Liliana, or that Duress without…

…My opponent played a land and cast Duress. He took my Oblivion Ring. I draw a Journey to Nowhere, play…

…of higher-dollar value Commons as well (Doom Blade, Duress, Essence Scatter, Lightning Bolt, Llanowar Elves, Negate, Ponder, Terramorphic Expanse…

…Cards like Duress are actively good in these matchups post-board, and allow you to take their most punishing cards…

…As well as the delicate peace of the Guildpact that may be coming under duress. This set also introduced us…

…Maindeck Duress seems completely acceptable in this format, and I’d rather lean harder on it than on conditional removal…

…Transgress the Mind in the tournament, but likely registered Duress. Oops.) So, why this deck instead of one of the…

…White Banisher Priest Blue Essence Scatter Jace, Memory Adept Negate Black Doom Blade Duress Lifebane Zombie Shadowborn Demon Xathrid Necromancer…

…of Will and Daze game 1, nothing a timely Duress couldn’t handle. The other half of the format seemed…

…Orim’s Chant, Stifle, Duress, and others don’t “counter” cards in the strictest sense, but can significantly blow out…

…It comes down to whether the Duress hits the Upheaval, and – if so – whether the blue mage can topdeck it…

…s Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz Sideboard 4 x Duress 3 x Karn, Scion of Urza 1 x Doomfall 3…

…Archangel of Thune, Lifebane Zombie, Seraph of the Sword, Duress, and Appetite for Brains. Fighting this strategy: Matching their offensive…

…s weakness to control oriented decks, so he has Duress, Transgress the Mind, as well as the Dark Petition / Seasons…

…Transgress the Mind was selected over Duress for two reasons. One, the manabase has a hard time supporting a turn…

…favor of the cheaper and more proactive discard spells. Duress and Thoughtseize do a pretty good job of protecting Monastery…

…The Green/White matchup is almost unlosable while with Vampires you need to play around both Duress and Mindsludge if…

…They know a must-have spell when they make one, particularly a Super Duress like this. What happened? One of…

…You can also use Nightcreep as kind of a horrendous Duress test spell to prevent countermagic on a key turn…

…months, and with those decks gaining Lightning Bolt and Duress, I would have liked to have had the pro-Red…

…better against U/B Control that can bring in Duress in addition to extra Negates. They probably have to bring…

…also serve this function if you need it to. Duress / Thoughtseize are not ideal, given that they don’t fit…

…I find myself bringing in the max number of Duress on the draw, and max Negate on the play, to…

…colors to decks just so you can access it. Duress: I am of the opinion that Inquistion of Kozilek is…

…cards can easily be crafted to beat such decks. Duress, Mind Rot, Mind Shatter and more Crypt Rippers can potentially…

…The deck loses the ability to have the explosive first turn of Dark Ritual – Duress – Sarcomancy x2 or to play…

…The deck also runs different variations on hand and graveyard heat such as Duress, Cling to Dust, Cremate, Rotten Reunion…

…itself become something as mundane as a Naturalize or Duress. One of the concerns I have going forward with this…