Primer: Bant Fish 2011

[serracollector]

I know that swords and path are the best removal for your colors, but wouldn't a destroy effect work better with the Surgical Extraction?  Destory your confidant, rfg all 4 etc.  Not sure wat is the best card for this, I've really like pongify believe it or not.  Its instant, 1 mana, and on color.  3/3 token shouldn't be a prob I would think. 

Anyways, with what you do have list I personally would go:

-1 Qasali Pridemage
-1 Swords to Plowshares
+2 Trygon Predator

They are so good against everything.  They need to be maindecked.  Its one of the best threats vs so many decks.

[Guli]

Ye especially in the mirror it matters a lot if you can fly over with 4-5 power. I agree. Done

I like Lightning Bolt more than I like STP.

I have also been thinking about Curfew. It is a nice answer to Tinker and Oath creatures. Plus it has nice interactions with the core creatures because it enables resets. I like the card with Vial especially.

But we cut Vial because we found out that with Noble Hierarch and Elvish Spirit Guide you have enough ways to play around spheres overall. We did leave the deck very vulnerable to Chalice@2. Even if this play is not blindly done, it just shuts too many of your deck. My suggestion right now is to run a couple Gorilla Shaman and play with 6 rainbow lands. We tested Steel Sabotage as an answer but weren't convinced. Though it is a suggestion at the moment I am running Trygon Predator to deal with Chalice.

3 Ancient Ziggurat
3 City of Brass

2 Tundra
2 Tropical Island
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire

4 Noble Hierarch
4 Elvish Spirit Guide

4 Meddling Mage
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Phyrexian Revoker

3 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
2 Trygon Predator
3 Path to Exile

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Surgical Extraction

SB: 3 Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 2 Trygon Predator
SB: 3 Ghost Quarter
SB: 4 Leyline of Sanctity
SB: 3 Ravenous Trap

We also found that Ravenous Trap is the best SB card when dealing with dredge G2 and G3. Alongside Surgical, Path to Exiles and 8 strip effects you have a very solid match up.