Duress strips key noncreature pieces like Candy Trail, The Mind Stone, or Pinnacle Starcage before they lock down our board, since this artifact deck relies heavily on noncreature permanents we can take proactively. Disdainful Stroke answers their expensive artifact payoffs like Simulacrum Synthesizer-fueled threats or United Battlefront at four mana or more. Spell Snare only hits mana value 2, missing most of their relevant artifacts like Simulacrum Synthesizer (3) and Perilous Snare (3), so we trim one copy for proactive hand disruption. Winternight Stories is cut since card selection is less urgent than disrupting their engine pieces directly.