If the format had less aggro and more combo or midrange then I think Boomerang would be an auto include. It is devastating against slow decks. The problem is that against Infect, Affinity, and Zoo it’s too low impact for its cost to be good.

Escort is less of a sideboard bullet imo than it is a maindeck bullet. Midrange and control decks are on the rise and I think having a maindeck answer is important. It’s also a 3/3, which are reasonable maindeck stats.

I agree that it’s a very good card and was the reason that mono-blue starting gaining ground at the end of Affinity’s Standard reign. The problem has always been having it in hand when you need it. I don’t think it’s powerful enough for sideboards and we’re not quite at the point where it’s never without a target, though the way Modern is going it might happen soon.

I agree that it isn’t optimal, but I’m not sure what other options there are. Suggestions?

And they usually play it out of the board, and I should have specified that I was thinking in terms of a maindeckable card.

Not every Company does have Redcap, thinking that opponents will scoop to infinite life. In my experience it’s not inconceivable that you could topdeck the answer after the combo has gone off and be able to break it up after the fact. That is the situation I am referring to.

Just keep in mind that you need two white permanents in play to activate it.

Chord players play burrenton forge tender as a chordable out to anger, although it admittedly does nothing vs verdict or damnation if those are popular.

And when company gains infinite life they also scry redcap to the top – so unless you have a way to disrupt them in that small window (since you didn’t just stop them from going infinite in the first place this is unlilely) you are not getting ten swings in with inkmoth.