Gruul Broodscale is a combo deck that wins by assembling Basking Broodscale plus Blade of the Bloodchief plus Glaring Fleshraker to generate infinite mana and funnel it into Walking Ballista for infinite damage — your priority is dismantling the non-creature pieces before the engine goes online. Consign to Memory is your best tool here, countering Blade of the Bloodchief triggers, Urza's Saga's construct-making ability, and Walking Ballista drain activations. Wear // Tear answers the two key permanents directly: Blade of the Bloodchief as an artifact and Urza's Saga as an enchantment, both of which are central to their gameplan. Wrath of the Skies handles a developed creature board if they flood the battlefield with Glaring Fleshrakers and Devourer of Destinys before you can close. Your fast Domain clock with Territorial Kavu and Scion of Draco forces them to combo quickly, while Stubborn Denial and Leyline Binding remain in to interact with Kozilek's Command and any Emrakul they might land.

Izzet Prowess wins by chaining multiple spells in a single turn to pump Monastery Swiftspear, Dragon's Rage Channeler, and Slickshot Show-Off to lethal damage, so High Noon is the premier sideboard enchantment here — restricting them to one spell per turn completely dismantles their explosive sequences. Wear // Tear comes in to efficiently destroy Cori-Steel Cutter before it generates card advantage or enables a hasty lethal attack. Mystical Dispute provides cheap, mana-efficient countermagic for Expressive Iteration and blue threats like Slickshot Show-Off. Keep Stubborn Denial active throughout, as Ferocious is usually online and it neutralizes Mutagenic Growth and Violent Urge at instant speed; Orcish Bowmasters stays in to punish Preordain and trade cleanly with their one-toughness threats. Teferi and Nishoba Brawler are trimmed as the slowest and least interactive cards in a race where every mana and card must generate immediate board impact.

Affinity wins through Kappa Cannoneer growing unchecked and Arcbound Ravager converting a board of zero-cost artifacts into a lethal threat, often backed by Metallic Rebuke to protect the gameplan. Wear // Tear is your most efficient answer, cleanly destroying Mox Opal, Urza's Saga (as an enchantment), and Engineered Explosives before they can be weaponized. Wrath of the Skies can reset their board at any X value you can afford, and at X=4 it sweeps even Kappa Cannoneer; hold it for a moment when Arcbound Ravager is tapped or they're tapped out so they can't sacrifice into modular to save counters. Consign to Memory is your most versatile tool — use it to counter Urza's Saga's construct-making activated ability, Arcbound Ravager's sacrifice trigger, or their Metallic Rebuke; Teferi, Time Raveler further shuts off their instant-speed interaction and can bounce Kappa Cannoneer to reset its counter accumulation. Ragavan and Nishoba Brawler come out because Affinity's artifact creatures and Ornithopter reliably block them, and Stubborn Denial's ferocity condition is less reliable when you may need to hold up mana for Wear // Tear or Wrath.