Dies to Removal

Well, in terms of elementary calculus I can see his point. But I agree that there are way, way more factors than elementary calculus that make the game work. My top deck is only equal in value to your top deck until I flip a Forest and you flip a Craterhoof Behemoth and a Demonic Tutor. Conversely, I've seen bad decks draw a dozen cards and not to a damn thing with any of them. So yeah, in a vacuum devoid of power levels (or, rather, where all power levels are equal) the math makes sense. In practice I just can't get over giving someone two cards. Unless I'm playing Nekusar and they're taking a ton of damage every time they draw a card, and I have them locked down so they can't cast half of them anyway. I guess I'd run Arcane Denial in THAT deck.

How much land do you usually run in a deck with a lot of ramp? More or less than average? I see you have 38 in your list, but you also said it was focusing more on sticking
Damia consistently fast, so hitting your drops is important. I usually run 40, going as low as 35 if I find five cards I like drawing strictly better than more land, but 40 seems high here.

I think it lacks interactivity too. I can get a Gilded Drake. I have a Fleshbag Marauder and a Bone Shredder, and Shriekmaw is what, like a buck? I also own a Bribery. Nirkana Revenant is a remnant of when the deck was mono-black. You take what you can get for acceleration in mono-colors that aren't green. It shouldn't be in this list, though. That was a copy/pasta oversight.

Also, oh Jesus, Insidious Dreams... I totally forgot about that card. I looked at it when I was running Chainer but I didn't have a ton of draw to make it really explosive so I passed on it. I think I can raise some hell with that.

Terastodon seems good. I never liked giving them elephants for their troubles, but it's a small price to pay for a 9/9 I guess. How do you feel about Karn? At worst he's a 7cmc Vindicate.

And people have sworn to me that [card]Arcane Denial[/card:
11hq9fgx] is a good counter, but "counter spell, draw a card, opponent draws 2 cards" doesn't seem optimal to me. Am I missing something here?

I'll start posting here so as not to further derail the B/x recursion thread, since this is officially a Damia list.

[deck]Damia v1.0[/deck]

That leaves me with room for 33 Lands, which isn't enough. So... cutting time. I may or may not be sold on Top in this deck. I've learned that how I stack the top three cards of my deck is irrelevant if I'm going to draw them all anyway. For those of you joining in, this is a BUG reanimator build. In the department of answers to things, there are a few ways in the list
to deal with creature threats by either exiling them with Duplicant, bouncing them with Kederekt, or stealing them all together. But there is no Enchantment or Artifact hate. So the list definitely needs trimmed and tuned a lot. I didn't even touch on what Planeswalkers I might want to include, if any. And then there's Zombie Infestation...

On the topic if your list, why aren't you running Force of Will?