Additional Artifact Interaction:
-Consider these choices if you are facing a stax heavy meta that relies on artifacts

	By Force
	Fragmentize
	Vandalblast
	Abrade
	Disenchant
	Hurkyl's Recall

Additional Stax Pieces:
-Consider these choices for a more stax heavy approach to Elsha

	Blood Moon -Strong in a Consultation/T&T dominated Meta, requires additonal basics
	Rest in Peace -Strong into Hulk, Gitrog, and Kess. Doesn't play nice with intuition
	Steal Enchantment -Steals opposing Mystic Remoras, Carpet of Flowers, Necropotence ect.
	Verity Circle -Strong into dork heavy metas
	Grand Arbiter Augustine IV -Strong into Storm and FC heavy metas
	Aven Mindcensor -Really strong into pretty much every deck
	Containment Priest -Strong into Hulk
	Drannith Magistrate -Strong into most decks, notably excluding Hulk
	Torpor Orb -Stops ETB effects, notably Thassa's Oracle

Alternate Counterspells:
-Other viable counterspells with various strengths and weaknesses

	Force of Negation
	-Pro: Free Defensive counter.
	-Pro: Hits most relevant wincons and counters
	-Pro: Exiles.
	-Con: Not as strong offensively, can't be used to force through sorcery speed wincons or Elsha for free
	-Con: Can't stop creatures
	-Con: Card disadvantage

	Negate
	-Pro: Cheap to cast.
	-Pro: Reliably hits most relevant wincons and counters
	-Con: Can't Stop creatures

	Spell Pierce
	-Pro: CMC 1
	-Pro: Has the potential to stop most relevant wincons and counters
	-Con: Doesn't scale well into the game.
	-Con: Can't stop creatures

	Fierce Guardianship
	-Pro: Another potentially free counter once we have Elsha
	-Pro: Hits most relevant wincons and counters
	-Con: Pretty terrible when we don't have Elsha in play
	-Con: Can't stop creatures
	(Note: The reason we prefer Deflecting Swat is its ability to protect our things from Abrupt Decay and Dovin's Veto)

	Mana Leak
	-Pro: Cheap to cast.
	-Pro: Has the potential to stop most spells.
	-Con: Doesn't scale well into the game.

	Misdirection
	-Pro: Free interaction
	-Pro: Can stop opposing counterspells and removal (even if uncounterable)
	-Pro: Can cause large tempo swings by redirecting removal
	-Con: Card disadvantage
	-Con: Can't stop creatures
	-Con: Can't stop opposing wincons

	Stifle
	-Pro: CMC 1
	-Pro: One of the only ways to interact with activated/triggered abilities
	-Con: Really narrow

	Tale's End
	-Pro: Cheap to cast
	-Pro: Can stop opposing commanders
	-Pro: One of the only ways to interact with activated/triggered abilities
	-Con: Still pretty narrow

Alternate Cantrips:
-Other viable cantrips if your aiming for a stormier build

	Opt
	Predict
	Faithless Looting
	Serum Visions
	Sleight of Hand
	Mishra's bauble

Alternate Wincons:
-Other viable wincons for playstyle/meta considerations

	Isochron Scepter+Dramatic Reversal
		-With enough rocks in play generates infintie mana and infinite storm

	Ghostly Flicker+Mystic Sanctuary
		-With a rock that produces 3 and 3+ Islands generates infinite mana and storm

	Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
		-Wins the game with infinite draw

Additional Tutors:
-Other viable tutors. Typically less cost efficient and slower than cantrips but can work in slower builds

	Merchant Scroll -Notable Targets: Intuition, Pact of Negation, Whir of Invention, Cyclonic Rift

	Gamble -Versatile but inconsistent
Utility Lands:
-These are viable lands that provide utility, usually at the expense of producing colored mana and being fetchable

	Academy Ruins
	-Pro: Can bring back crucial combo pieces from our yard
	-Con: Colorless land
	-Con: Not fetchable

	Fiery Islet
	-Pro: Produces colors!
	-Pro: can draw cards
	-Con: not fetchable

	Hall of Heliod's Intervention
	-Pro: Can bring back really strong value cards (Mystic Remora, Underworld Breach)
	-Con: Kinda narrow, we don't run that many enchantments
	-Con: Colorless land
	-Con: Not fetchable

	Mystic Sanctuary
	-Pro: Enables an additional combo line with Ghostly Flicker
	-Pro: Can bring back counters at instant speed with fetches and Elsha
	-Pro: Produces colors!
	-Pro: Fetchable
	-Con: ETB tapped sometimes and provides no value when it does

	Snow-Covered Mountain
	-Pro: Mostly run alongside Back to Basics to have a fetchable red source that untaps
	-Con: Its a mountain.

Additional Reducers:
-Largely useful for stormier builds

	Helm of Awakening
	Sapphire Medallion
	Baral, Chief of Compliance
	Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Additional Rocks:
-For speed or budget concerns

	Azorius Signet
	Izzet Signet
	Jeweled Amulet
	Mox Amber


Budget Alternatives:
-Some budget alternatives that can 1 to 1 sub some expensive options

	Winds of Change - Wheel of Fortune (please don't)
	Earthquake - Rolling Earthquake
	Time Spiral - Timetwister (can only be looped with Narset's Reversal)
	Echo of Eons - Timetwister