- Experienced Mage
- Location: Boston
- Join Date: 11/9/2015
- Posts: 141
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When "elephanting" a deck, I often end up with a bunch of very wide one-ofs that are applicable in many matchups, e.g. Abrade, Beast Within, and Abrupt Decay in my Assault Loam deck. Instead of having 4 Nature's Claim for a bad affinity matchup, I would rather play many varied cards that also are good in other matchups that I can board in. 1 Abrade, 1 Beast Within, and 1 Abrupt Decay would all come in against Affinity, but could also be brought in against other decks easily. The one of's make sure I have no dead cards main deck, and no dead cards in sideboard; it seems everything has many uses and a lot comes in for nearly every matchup. That being said, I still usually have multiple 2 or 3 of's like Nihil Spellbomb or Anger of the Gods.