Mono Green Landfall wants to flood the board with ramp and landfall payoffs like Mossborn Hydra and Sapling Nursery tokens, so Glorious Decay's 4-damage-to-flyers mode is mostly dead but its artifact destruction and graveyard exile/draw mode still find use against Esper Origins and their Lander-style value. Torch the Tower comes in as cheap, efficient interaction against their small early creatures (Llanowar Elves, Sazh's Chocobo) and can exile problem threats before they grow. Guerrilla Gorilla's reach helps block Mossborn Hydra and other ground threats while also offering a sacrifice outlet to blow up Earthbender Ascension or Sapling Nursery. Chandra is too slow and disconnected from the grindy green matchup, and one Rottenmouth Viper is cut since their deck lacks the artifact/token density to make sacrificing as efficient.

Dimir Midrange is loaded with countermagic (We Say Thee Nay!, Spell Snare), cheap removal (Requiting Hex, Bitter Triumph, Shoot the Sheriff), and card advantage engines (Kaito, Enduring Curiosity), so Duress proactively strips those answers and engines before they can be deployed. Strategic Betrayal makes them exile a creature of their choice along with their graveyard, which sidesteps Enduring Curiosity's death-recursion when it is the creature they have to give up. Deadly Precision's additional cost is awkward against a deck that doesn't flood the board, so trimming copies for proactive discard smooths out draws. Smaug comes out since Kaito's -2 and Floodpits Drowner's stun-and-shuffle effects undercut a 4-mana flyer, while cheaper interaction keeps pace with their tempo plan.

This is the mirror-adjacent matchup, so Duress is premium against their cheap removal (Requiting Hex, Stir Up Trouble) and the Strategic Betrayal copies they may bring in from the sideboard. It also takes key noncreature spells like Obsessive Pursuit and Lively Dirge before they can use them. The Ooze is a good grinding engine here. Its tap ability exiles a card from a graveyard (useful against Lively Dirge) and makes a Mutagen token each time, which is an artifact and a token. Those tokens are free sacrifice fodder for Biotech Specialist's 2 damage trigger, Umbral Collar Zealot, and The Sackville-Bagginses. It also makes Mutagen when a creature carrying a +1/+1 counter from Obsessive Pursuit leaves the battlefield. Chandra is trimmed as the slowest four-mana card when cheap interaction matters most. Deadly Precision copies are trimmed because many of their creatures, like Greedy Freebooter and Callous Inspector, leave behind a Treasure or Clue when they die. Paying four mana or sacrificing a permanent to kill them is a poor trade.