That’s probably a bluff. 😉

For example, attacking with a 1/1 when your opponent has a 2/2 to block you. Dont you think thats a worse mistake?

Competent: having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully.

If you are making plays that increase your chance of losing and decrease your chance of winning (incorrect plays), I would say that’s a pretty spot-on example of playing incompetently. I think you are taking the criticism of this random person’s bad plays (and they are bad) a little too personally. And as far as misplaying brainstorm, I’d like an example of a “far worse” mistake.

What I'm saying is that you aren't going to be playing any particularly narrow sideboard cards in Legacy. If you have a card like Spell Pierce on your sideboard it is going to come in against combo and control decks alike. Tormod's Crypt is strong against Reanimator, Dredge, and decks like the awful Storm build with 4x Past in Flames. Just because you play against 8 different decks doesn't mean that you won't have tools against all of them. You get 15 sideboard slots and any slots that only address one particular matchup are wasted slots. I don't waste my slots.

Huh? I'm not sure I follow you. There is a huge advantage to playing rogue strategies, one of which is that SB space is limited. You can't board for everything only the decks/cards you have problems with. Yet there is still the possibility of playing 8 different decks in 8 rounds. This isn't uncommon.

There are decks that can grind you out or just trump you completely. Chalice for 1, for example is brutal. Any of the MUD decks can do this pretty easily. I'd much rather be on the Nic Fit side of the table. Even decks that were previously pushed out of the metagame like Merfolk can beat you if you expect Bolts to do most of the heavy lifting. 8 LoAs is very good here.Miracle with EE? Another trump. Even something like a "bad" deck like Affinity is faster than you and has silly opening hands.

The advantage of playing rogue strategies is nowhere near as heavy in Legacy as in formats like Standard or Modern as the disruption available is generally not going to be very narrow. Spell Pierce is pretty all-encompassing in terms of combo decks, sans Dredge, and Force of Will is a catch-all if I ever saw one. It shouldn't be too hard to tell if I want to Lightning Bolt your creatures or not.

I'm not sure which "fair" decks you are referring to that make RUG eat it. I already discussed how the Maverick matchup isn't actually bad. Burn is also close/favorable as is Deadguy Ale.

I would argue that you're just playing RUG poorly if you blindly assert that it's "bad against fair decks". It's a useless statement as there is almost zero context and the statement is already, in part, false.

I do use it proactively from time to time, but it's very contingent on what is in my hand. I generally like to cast it at the last possible moment as a rule, but sometimes this means to use it proactively. If I assess the board/game state and it looks like I need a clock and/or I have two Brainstorms then I will do so proactively, but the longer you wait the more like an A-Call your Brainstorms become.

Burn is a close matchup, to be sure. Does that mean that I'm worried about it? No. A couple-three Blue Blasts on the board makes sideboarded games favor RUG by a fair, if not massive margin. I talked about the two decks that are actually bad matchups in my experience, not the ones that are close.

Thoughts?