Faithless Looting discards Fiery Temper into exile for its madness cost, so Faerie Macabre's graveyard exile does nothing to stop that engine and stays in the board. Darkness is excellent since it blanks an entire turn of combat damage from their attacking creatures, letting you stabilize through their damage-race plan. Weather the Storm gains 3 life per spell cast before it this turn (storm), directly countering their incremental ping damage from Kessig Flamebreather and Guttersnipe. We shave the 4 Architects of Will and the single Repository Skaab since neither answers their fast clock, favoring maximum lifegain and damage prevention instead.