Relic Bane

[honestabe]

Does anyone think that relic bane has any place in a sideboard to counter the Tezzeret/TimeVault decks out there?

It definitly give the opponent a set amount of turns, but does anyone think that it may see any play?

[vartemis]

2 life is not enough, and there are better things out there.  for 3 mana you could run Heretic and kill losts of stuff.

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[Mantis]

So you give them 10 turns to either find bounce for the Relic Bane or kill you with Tezzeret + army of artifacts or Darksteel Colossus. Oh wait, if they really care they could always counter it. What is your plan when they drop both Vault and Key in the same turn, or when they Tinker for Colossus and kill you with that? Relic Bane is way too conditional, I would rather just play Ancient Grudge or other artifact hate. That said, I still don't think the way to beat Tez is to go after their win condition because they have 2 and that allows them to play around whatever hate you are holding. Instead, you can deny them of resolving the spell by mana disruption or counters or you can kill them before they kill you.