Gruul Basking Broodscale wants to flood the board with Eldrazi Spawn tokens and creatures like Glaring Fleshraker and Devourer of Destiny in a single big turn off Urza's Saga and ramp lands; Force of Despair wipes out all creatures that entered this turn, punishing their explosive starts. Consign to Memory counters colorless spells outright, which lines up well against their many colorless Eldrazi threats like Devourer of Destiny and Emrakul, the Promised End, and it also stops triggered abilities like Glaring Fleshraker's spawn creation. Cut the slower Faithful Mending and reanimation-focused Persist since this matchup rewards proactive disruption over incremental card selection against a deck that can bury you in bodies quickly.

Izzet Prowess relies on cheap noncreature spells and artifacts like Mishra's Bauble, so Consign to Memory can counter the Bauble itself as a colorless spell. Wrath of the Skies sweeps away their army of small creatures like Dragon's Rage Channeler, Monastery Swiftspear, and Slickshot Show-Off before they get out of hand, buying crucial time against their aggressive clock. Faithful Mending and Persist come out because they are too slow against a deck this fast; prioritize interaction and sweepers that reset the board. Keep Solitude and Prismatic Ending in as your primary answers to their early threats alongside the new sweepers.

Esper GenericBlink is a mirror-style matchup built around similar blink and value creatures like Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd and Overlord of the Balemurk, so efficient bodies and free interaction matter most. White Orchid Phantom is a flying, first-strike blocker that can also strip a key nonbasic land, giving you a proactive threat that dodges their ground creatures and disrupts their manabase. Force of Negation gives free interaction on their turn to counter a critical noncreature spell like Teferi, Time Raveler or a key Ephemerate. Trim Faithful Mending and Persist since this matchup favors efficient bodies and free counters over grindy card selection against an opponent running a very similar plan.