need sideboard help for regionals in maryland

sergitknight · Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 177

here's the deck

nantukovore

4 husk
4 mortivore
1 golgari grave troll
2 stinkweed imp
3 shambling shell
4 llanowar elves
3 elves of the deep shadow
3 dark confidant
3 plagued rusalka

4 loxodon warhammer
3 fist of iron wood
4 puetrefy

4 overgrown tomb
8 swamp
8 forest
2 svagthos, the restless tomb

the side board is the porblem im expecting to see ghost husk, gruul, heart beat, wild fire, and magnivore but can't deside which is the most important
choices I've come up with:

leyline of the void (izzet tron)
distress, cerocion ( heart beat)
roiling spoil ( gruul and heart beat)
naturalize
crime///punishment
grave pact ( is already in )
creeping mold
loaming shaman ( wildfire, magnivore)

I could use help narrowing the list down

Manipulation · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 294 Location: Oxnard

You're considering the black leyline sideboarded in a deck with Mortivore and dredge cards? ... Shocked

AlexTrebek · Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 140

Black Leyline does in fact say "opponents" so yeah it's ok.. unless he's worried about it getting confiscated.

sergitknight · Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 177

sorry its the green leyline I wrote the wrong one down

kevinconvery · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 42

Y2Sky · Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 38

Naturalize and Loaming Shaman should be in your SB, and you may also want Cruel Edict for dealing with Paladin en-Vec (he'll be in B/W aggro and WILL wreck you).

prometheus · Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 28

I think that leyline of lifeforce is not the best way to approach the izzet tron matchup. If your goal is to play creatures through a counter wall, okiba gang shinobi is much better for two reasons.
1 It's a creature you can play through a counterwall
2 It breaks down the counterwall

And you have the benefit of 11 1 drops to sneak it through.

Eradicate is a card you should consider to deal with threats like keiga, yosei, meloku, and magnivore.

Phyrexian arena is a superb card against decks with wildfire, because they try to win by attrition. Instead of killing magnivore or stopping the ld (a la sacred ground) your plan would be to draw out of it. All counterspells and ld are 1 for 1 trades; if you have arena, you can comfortably make those trades.

I would recommend not taking the head on approach to beating these decks- they can usually deal with it. I know the logic would seem to be: they run counters, so I'll play this card that stops the counters. It's usually better to play a card which is a threat on its own and averts the counters, or averts their gameplan.