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Also, and I can't emphasize this enough, Skite's multi-matchup relevance keeps pressure off your valuable sideboard slots

Plus, these decks usually have enough cantrips and card advantage to find the creatures that are important to the deck, so theres no much need to pack a bunch of creatures in the first place

People have mentioned that Etali is a worse version of Mind's Dilation, but I'd argue the opposite: the enchantment is getting you up to one spell each turn (possibly more if opponents are casting instants outside of their turn) and only from opponents, while Etali is getting all those spells at once and includes you

For a deck built around such conditions, this feels like an odd misstep

Ill compare that to the foils in a moment

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