Welcome back to The Brainstorm Show. In this episode, we provide you with a look at Wilson’s EE7 experience, a starting point for Czech Pile, and take a large helping of listener questions. Hidden in this episode is the secret to becoming a better Magic player. Spoiler alert: it’s not much of a secret. We hope you enjoy!

The Brainstorm Show’s “Czech Pile/4C Control” + Sideboard Guide:

4 Deathrite Shaman

3 Baleful Strix

3 Snapcaster Mage

2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest

1 Kess, Dissident Mage

1 True-name Nemesis

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

2 Thoughtseize

1 Counterspell

1 Toxic Deluge

1 Umezawa’s Jitte

1 Lightning Bolt

2 Fatal Push

2 Kolaghan’s Command

2 Abrupt Decay

4 Ponder

4 Brainstorm

4 Force of Will

4 Polluted Delta

4 Scalding Tarn

2 Verdant Catacombs

3 Underground Sea

2 Volcanic Island

2 Tropical Island

1 Badlands

1 Swamp

1 Island

SB

3 Surgical Extraction

2 Flusterstorm

3 Pyroblast

2 Duress

1 Diabolic Edict

2 Pithing Needle

1 Toxic Deluge

1 Kess, Dissident Mage

Grixis Delver

-4 Force of Will, -1 Counterspell, -2 Thoughtseize

+2 Flusterstorm, +3 Pyroblast, +1 Toxic Deluge, +1 Diabolic Edict

Death & Taxes

-4 Force of Will, -1 Counterspell

+1 Diabolic Edict, +1 Toxic Deluge, +2 Pithing Needle, +1 Kess, Dissident Mage

Grixis Control

-2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor, -2 Thoughtseize, -1 Counterspell, -1 Force of Will

+3 Pyroblast, +2 Flusterstorm, +1 Diabolic Edict

Mirror

-4 Force of Will, -2 Thoughtseize

+3 Pyroblast, +2 Flusterstorm, +1 Kess, Dissident Mage

UWx Control

-4 Force of Will, -1 Counterspell, -1 Baleful Strix

+3 Pyroblast, +1 Toxic Deluge, +1 Diabolic Edict, +1 Kess, Dissident Mage

Storm

-3 Baleful Strix, -2 Fatal Push, -1 Lightning Bolt, -1 Umezawa’s Jitte, -2 Abrupt Decay, -1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor, -1 True-name Nemesis

+2 Duress, +3 Surgical Extraction, +3 Pyroblast, +2 Flusterstorm, +1 Kess, Dissident Mage

Dark Depths

+2 Flusterstorm, +2 Pithing Needle, +1 Diabolic Edict

-2 Thoughtseize, -1 Umezawa’s Jitte, -1 Toxic Deluge, -1 Fatal Push

Lands

+3 Surgical Extraction, +2 Pithing Needle, +1 Diabolic Edict

-1 Toxic Deluge, -2 Thoughtseize, -1 Lightning Bolt, -1 Umezawa’s Jitte, -1 Fatal Push

4C Loam

-4 Force of Will, -1 Counterspell, -2 Thoughtseize

+2 Pithing Needle, +3 Surgical Extraction, +1 Kess, Dissident Mage, +1 Diabolic Edict

Burn

-2 Thoughtseize, -2 Jace, the Mindsculptor

+2 Duress, +2 Flusterstorm

Elves

-2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor, -1 Baleful Strix

+1 Toxic Deluge, +2 Flusterstorm

BR Reanimator

+3 Surgical Extraction, +2 Flusterstorm, +2 Duress, +1 Diabolic Edict

-2 Jace, the Mindsculptor, -2 Fatal Push, -1 Lightning Bolt, -2 Abrupt Decay, -1 Umezawa’s Jitte

Sneak and Show

+2 Flusterstorm, +3 Pyroblast, +2 Pithing Needle, +2 Duress

-1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor, -2 Fatal Push, -1 Lightning Bolt, -1 Umezawa’s Jitte, -1 True-name Nemesis, -3 Baleful Strix

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Wilson Hunter’s Vintage Restricted Storm

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Brainstorm

1 Ponder

4 Preordain

1 Gitaxian Probe

1 Mystical Tutor

1 Vampiric Tutor

2 Dark Ritual

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Chain of Vapor

1 Hurkyl’s Recall

1 Merchant Scroll

1 Time Walk

4 Paradoxical Outcome

1 Tendrils of Agony

1 Empty the Warrens

1 Timetwister

1 Wheel of Fortune

1 Windfall

1 Yawgmoth’s Will

1 Black Lotus

1 Mox Emerald

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mox Ruby

1 Mox Sapphire

3 Mox Opal

1 Lotus Petal

1 Manavault

1 Sol Ring

1 Mana Crypt

2 Sensei’s Divining Top

1 Monastery Mentor

4 Force of Will

2 Flooded Strand

2 Misty Rainforest

1 Polluted Delta

1 Scalding Tarn

1 Tolarian Academy

2 Underground Sea

1 Tundra

1 Volcanic Island

1 Island

1 Ancient Tomb

SB

1 Tinker

1 Blightsteel Colossus

4 Defense Grid

2 Kambal, Consul of Allocation

1 Hurkyl’s Recall

1 Steel Sabotage

1 Chain of Vapor

1 Grafdigger’s Cage

2 Containment Priest

1 Yixlid Jailer