Mono-Green Landfall wants to chain Earthbender Ascension and Mightform Harmonizer triggers uninterrupted, so Duress lets us strip a key enchantment before it snowballs. Ancient Vendetta can exile all copies of Earthbender Ascension or Mightform Harmonizer from hand, graveyard, and library, denying the resets they'd get from casting extras. Shoot the Sheriff struggles since many of their bodies (Bristly Bill, Mole Man) aren't huge threats worth a card, and Consult the Star Charts is too slow against their proactive curve. Keep Deadly Cover-Up and Inevitable Defeat as our primary sweeper/removal package against their wide board.

Dimir Midrange leans on planeswalkers like Kaito and countermagic like We Say Thee Nay!, so Duress proactively strips these key threats and spells before they resolve. Strategic Betrayal exiles a creature and their whole graveyard, which is excellent against Enduring Curiosity's recursive death trigger and denies Elektra or Cecil any graveyard value. Shoot the Sheriff can't touch outlaw creatures like Spyglass Siren, and it doesn't line up well against the rest of their nonoutlaw creature suite either, so it's an unreliable answer here. Consult the Star Charts is too slow in a grindy matchup where we need proactive disruption instead of card selection. Our removal (Deadly Cover-Up, Inevitable Defeat) remains crucial against their creature suite.

Dimir Excruciator is a control-combo deck built around resolving Doomsday Excruciator and grinding with Duress and Requiting Hex, so extra copies of Duress let us fight over resources and strip their own disruption before it locks in card advantage. Outrageous Robbery generates a huge card advantage swing that can outpace their grindy hand-disruption plan. Shoot the Sheriff is weak since Superior Spider-Man and Doomsday Excruciator are the only real bodies and neither dies efficiently to it compared to our sweepers. Keep Deadly Cover-Up in since it can wipe Superior Spider-Man and any token generated by Unholy Annex-style effects they might bring in.