[Single Card Discussion] Pact of Negation

[IceOaks]

Forgive me if i sound scrubby, but i've been tinkering around with PitchLong for a few weeks and i realise that it is possible to put in PoN as a SUBSTITUTE for MisD.

The reason for this is that the usually the few times that you'll use MisD is when:
1) You pitch it to FoW or
2) When you want to MisD an opponent's A.Call which is not very often or
3) An opponent counters a BOMB that you're casting and if this BOMB resolves, the chances of winning THIS TURN is >70%. (Don't think I'll use MisD if my chances of winning this turn is low because I'd have to pitch a blue card, and every blue card in pitchlong is like a mini-bomb) Anything after that would mean that you'd have very few cards in hand, the opponent is about to own you and you'd lose anyways...

Given this 3 reasons, it seems reasonable that PoN replaces MisD. Don't think of PoN as a hard counter, but something like a MisD in your hand without the pitching effect. You probably couldnt use it to counter your opponent's stuff in his main phase but on ur turn, if u can kill, you have a counter that free without pitching!!! I think people playing pitchlong generally realise that all the counters in the deck are meant to protect our combo and not use it recklessly to counter every and anything the opponent throws at us.

The biggest drawback of this card is the 0 casting cost which Chalice 0 takes care of, but then again you could always pitch to FoW.

[Gekoratel]

Your idea actually makes a lot of sense and I suspect that most builds of Pitch Long will be removing Misdirection for Pact.  One of Pitch's worst matchup is Gifts because it does not have enough card advantage to keep 2 for 1ing itself with countermagic but if your playing 3 pacts instead of Mis-D it would be a lot easier to punch through with a threat because you need less cards for backup.