Esper Control's Solitude and Orim's Chant can disrupt our combo turn, so Thoughtseize lets us proactively strip a key answer before we commit, and it can be cast for just {B} off our mana dophins since we don't need to worry about their removal catching it. Drannith Magistrate shuts off their free-cast Solitude via evoke and any flash tricks, forcing them to play fair, which is brutal against a deck full of reactive answers. Ashiok, Dream Render stops any fetchland shuffling if they try to dig with Flooded Strand or Arid Mesa, though its main value is as a sticky threat they must answer with limited removal. We cut our slowest, least impactful combo pieces that don't help race through counterspells and wraths.