Mono-Green Landfall is a tempo-aggro deck that chains land drops to fuel Earthbender Ascension and a board of growing threats like Mightform Harmonizer and Bristly Bill, Spine Sower. Flashfreeze is the premier answer here, cleanly countering their entire creature suite and key pump spells at instant speed for two mana. Annul comes in specifically to preemptively answer Earthbender Ascension before it snowballs, and Disdainful Stroke catches their top-end threats like Mightform Harmonizer. Trim Strategic Betrayal since single-target edicts are inefficient against their wide board of small creatures, and cut one Duress as it misses creature spells, while also trimming one copy each of Intimidation Tactics and Winternight Stories as they are too slow when you need to stabilize early — lean on Requiting Hex and Day of Black Sun as your primary board stabilizers.

This is a grindy attrition mirror where hand disruption takes center stage — the additional Duress copies and Strategic Betrayal let you strip their key threats and card advantage spells before they resolve. Disdainful Stroke is well-positioned to answer their Day of Black Sun, Insatiable Avarice, and any post-board Quantum Riddler they bring in. Note that their two Cavern of Souls will make creature-targeting counterspells such as Annul unreliable against their Superior Spider-Man and Doomsday Excruciator, so lean on discard and removal rather than counter magic for creature interaction. Shoot the Sheriff and Intimidation Tactics are trimmed as their impact is limited in a matchup that rarely goes wide or involves the combat step in a meaningful way. The game will typically be decided by whoever resolves a must-answer threat like Doomsday Excruciator through opposing disruption first.

Jeskai Control wins through incremental card advantage via Tablet of Discovery, Stock Up, and Jeskai Revelation while using Firebending Lesson to generate a board presence; your goal is to strip their key spells before they resolve and then land a threat they can't answer. Bring in all four extra Duress copies (two from sideboard) to attack their hand early and dismantle their countermagic suite, and add Disdainful Stroke to tax their expensive draw spells and any sideboard Sphinx of the Final Word. Oildeep Gearhulk and Quantum Riddler come in as resilient, card-advantage-generating threats that are difficult for a primarily spell-based deck to interact with efficiently. Cut Shoot the Sheriff, Day of Black Sun, and Intimidation Tactics as they have almost no valid targets in Jeskai's mainboard, and trim Winternight Stories and one Bitter Triumph since those are too slow and passive against an active permission and draw engine. Post-board, prioritize deploying discard in the early turns, then follow with a hard-to-answer threat while leaving up your counterspells — the player who resolves the first unanswered card advantage engine typically wins this matchup.