Praetor's Grasp is interesting. I feel like it is a stellar answer to Food Chain builds, and it hurts many different combo decks while also allowing you to see any anomalies in the build whilst searching.

Arcane Denial to Delay feels weaker to me, but perhaps that's just me. I like that it draws you a card, and it works well with both Leovold, Emissary of Trest and Consecrated Sphinx.

Side thought: I was wondering the other day what makes Leo better than Notion Thief. Obviously, the cmc and the target abilities are major pros, but the pay-off from Thief seems astronomically better because the ability to draw a card still triggers (i.e. someone is playing a Padeem, Consul of Innovation, you get to draw an extra card). It would then operate as a pseudo Sphinx number 2 in a way.

Oof. I guess then Thrasios could kill you if he went infinite on draw with Notion Thief out. That's gross.

buildingadeck: Delay is something I've been debating and want to give a try. I may go back due to the other synergies we'll see how it goes after a few games.

Leo vs Notion Thief. The CMC is huge. The fact that if you or anything of yours is targeted with Leo is notable. Lastly the body on Leo is good as well, 3 hp vs 1 hp means that Leo can prevent incidental damage, which is always a concern with this deck. At one point I had both in the deck and Leo won the fight to remain.

I kind of figured it might have been because of those things, but I just wanted to check. This deck does hurt itself a lot; it's worse without ABUR Duals, lol, let me tell ya.

Side note: Are you playing in the reddit tourney?

The corner case of Notion Thief killing you is pretty rare but can happen, both Consecrated Sphinx and Thrasios are the big offenders there.

There is the last thing of Notion thief just putting a giant target on your head, where as Leo can act as a bit of a mediator between players. If Leo is holding one player down, others may protect Leo and help keep that player down while not positively impacting you. Where as they can't do that same thing with Notion Thief. Leo provides a passive shield on card draw for the table which people sometimes want. Notion Thief is a vacuum for all the card draw that only the controller wants.

I did not join in on the Reddit tourney. My life is quite full currently and just keeping up with work, college and editing the videos for the LabMan channel. I'm the video editing/production guy, Sigi does the audio. I did not feel that I could dedicate enough time to it and instead abstained.

Sphinx is a may ability, so that wouldn't happen, thankfully.

I see your point on Leo. If we're gonna play Archenemy, go all in and Exhume Jin T2. Lol.

I hear ya on the business. I'm about to graduate so things are stacked. I appreciate the work y'all do on those videos; I learn a lot from them and am constantly inspired to spend more money, lol.

If you get the chance, I'd love your feedback on my last cEDH game video that you can find in the updates of my Tas list.

Sphinx under an opponent's control is 'may' for them, Notion Thief is a Must for you. They can continue to choose to try and draw cards. You then are forced to continue to draw, each one letting them choose to draw two more, which feeds back over to you. Very, very, quickly you deck yourself on your forced draws from their 'may' draws. Then they may continue to draw cards based on all the triggers you gave them from decking yourself :D

I'll take a look at the video and get back to you.

Ah, I see your meaning. I thought you meant Sphinx in our control.

Thanks, mate. I know I make a major misplay at approx 11 minutes, but I think I did alright. Getting better at understanding cEDH; it's a complicated meta. :)