Welcome back to The Brainstorm Show, listeners! This week we take the ceaseless chatter about Miracles bans head on by showing you how you can take a common archetype and rethink it to be more competitive against the “best deck in the format.” We built a BUG tempo deck, and in this episode we walk through the card choices and some of the popular matchups. Take a look at the list below and the sideboard plan for the common decks in the current metagame. Enjoy!

Maindeck

4 Delver of Secrets

4 Deathrite Shaman

4 Nimble Mongoose

2 Vendilion Clique

4 Brainstorm

4 Ponder

4 Daze

4 Force of Will

4 Stifle

4 Abrupt Decay

2 Dismember

2 Spell Pierce

4 Wasteland

3 Underground Sea

3 Tropical Island

4 Polluted Delta

4 Verdant Catacombs

SB

2 Disfigure

2 Go for the Throat

2 Painful Truths

2 Winter Orb

1 Pithing Needle

1 Flusterstorm

3 Surgical Extraction

2 Thoughtseize

Sideboarding Guide

Miracles:

-2 Dismember, -2 Wasteland, -2 Daze

+2 Winter Orb, +1 Pithing Needle, +1 Flusterstorm, +2 Painful Truths

Shardless BUG:

-4 Force of Will, -2 Spell Pierce

+2 Go for the Throat, +2 Painful Truths, +2 Disfigure

Delver:

-4 Force of Will, -2 Spell Pierce

+2 Go for the Throat, +2 Painful Truths, +2 Disfigure

Eldrazi:

-4 Stifle

+2 Go for the Throat, +2 Thoughtseize

Storm:

-4 Abrupt Decay, -2 Dismember

+3 Surgical Extraction, +2 Thoughtseize, +1 Flusterstorm

Lands:

-4 Daze, -2 Dismember

+3 Surgical Extraction, +2 Winter Orb, +1 Pithing Needle

Death and Taxes:

-4 Stifle, -2 Pierce, -1 FoW

+2 Disfigure, +2 Go for the Throat, +2 Thoughtseize, +1 Pithing Needle

Sneak and Show:

-2 Abrupt Decay, -2 Dismember

+1 Flusterstorm, +2 Thoughtseize, +1 Pithing Needle

Infect:

-4 Force of Will, -2 Spell Pierce

+2 Go for the Throat, +2 Disfigure, +1 Pithing Needle, +1 Flusterstorm