Mono Red Madness is a pure burn-to-the-face race with Fiery Temper, Lightning Bolt, and Guttersnipe/Kessig Flamebreather triggers, so Weather the Storm's life gain directly counters their damage plan and can snowball via storm if you cast other spells first. Breath Weapon clears their small creatures (Voldaren Epicure, Guttersnipe) for 2 damage each, cutting off their damage-trigger engine. Relic of Progenitus and graveyard hate from their side won't matter here since madness casts from exile, not the graveyard. Trim slower card-advantage pieces like Lembas and Eviscerator's Insight since they don't affect the speed of this race.

Dimir Control wants to control the game with Counterspell, Snap, and card advantage from Of One Mind, so Duress proactively strips their counterspell or removal before you commit a key threat. Terminate is clean, unconditional removal for their evasive threats like Spellstutter Sprite or Ninja of the Deep Hours (neither dodges Cast Down's nonlegendary restriction, but Terminate adds density). Nihil Spellbomb is weak here since their strategy isn't graveyard-based beyond incidental value, so trim it for more proactive disruption. Keep your removal suite lean and focused on protecting your ability to deploy threats through their permission.

Mono-Blue Terror depends entirely on graveyard density to make Tolarian Terror and Cryptic Serpent cheap, so Faerie Macabre's discard-to-exile ability strips their graveyard fuel and can be repeated by drawing more copies. Duress proactively strips Counterspell or Brainstorm before they can protect their threats or disrupt your plan, which is crucial since they have little pressure of their own early. Swap out Nihil Spellbomb for Faerie Macabre since Macabre exiles cards more efficiently as a discard-based ability rather than requiring a slow artifact activation. Eviscerator's Insight is replaced since card selection matters less than proactively attacking their key resource.