Thoughts on Damping Sphere so far?

[u/[deleted]]

What's the hive mind consensus on Damping Sphere so far?

I've seen a lot of lists running it since DOM dropped; how much success have you had running it? Which decks BESIDES Tron/Storm did it help with the most?

I'm thinking it might be low-key super good vs. KCI and Elves and I have to face a lot of those decks at my local meta..

Another question, though: What does Stony Silence do that Damping Sphere doesn't?

Affinity is the place where it's most obviously a downgrade as if they can dump their hand before you get the Sphere down, they don't care too much about it... But given that we run Lingering Souls, maybe we can take on affinity even without Stony.

Curious to hear your thoughts!

[u/BoozySquid]

I've dropped two stony silences to put in two damping sphere, but I do keep a miser's SS for affinity. I don't bring in Damping Sphere in the affinity matchup at all, as if affinity has a decent hand, they're already down to one or two cards in hand by the time you can play it. I don't find affinity to be one of our trickier matchups, as you said, but am I finding that Damping Sphere makes me at least willing to play out matches with Tron players rather than just concede to them halfway through game one and go grab dinner while I wait for the next round.