This matchup is a mana-denial and board-presence race: their Eldrazi Spawn tokens and Basking Broodscale adapt triggers snowball fast, so Pick Your Poison's -2/-2 mode sweeps their small tokens and Broodscale before it adapts. Thoughtseize comes in as a proactive answer to take key combo pieces or ramp enablers from their hand before they can establish their engine. Surgical Extraction is strong here to strip remaining copies of Ancient Stirrings, Malevolent Rumble, or a key Urza's Saga/Eldrazi Temple once one hits the graveyard and disrupt their engine consistency. Burning Inquiry is too random against a deck that wants us not drawing removal, and the extra Golgari Thug/Otherworldly Gaze copies are cut since we need proactive answers to their ramp targets more than additional graveyard filling.