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Make them discard everything and pay for it, as fast as you can.
You want to make them lose some important cards in turns 1-2. Play your specter or rack/shrieking affliction ASAP to keep them on their toes and set the match's pace. Disrupt as much as possible. Remove their threats by not letting them be played. When not killing by their lack of cards, specter or nyxathid can do the job.
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I would remove the liliana's caress, waste not and underworld dreams and run a full playset of shrieking affliction, stupor and duress. Alternatively, you can run 2 Nyxathid over 2 shrieking affliction. Also, exchange terror for doom blade or victim of night, both of those cards hit more targets than terror. Also, geth's verdict is strictly better than diabolic edict, so you might want to swap them, however, I think gatekeeper of malakir would be better in that spot personally. Also, while I personally love using extirpate in my decks, it doesn't fit the main strategy if this deck, which is keeping the opponent's hand empty. You should rather run an additional funeral charm and some more removal.The reason liliana's caress is bad in a discard deck is actually straight forward. It does nothing after turn 3, since their hand should be empty by them, making it a dead draw. Also, you don't want to play it early since you would rather play hymn to tourach/stupor/duress/hippie/you-get-the-point. The same applies to waste not. Underworld dreams falls into this trap too, while it looks good on paper, the fact that it does nothing to keep your opponent's hand empty or provide any sort of board control, makes it a bad card.To finish this wall of text: Have you considered inquisition of kozilek instead of duress? What you want to hit with duress is usually some card that can disrupt your early game plan. Inquisition does this better since it also targets creatures. Realistically a 4cmc+ card in your opponent's hand should have hit the graveyard before turn 4. While you might want duress due to it being the better draw lategame. Consider this, if your opponent keeps a card in their hand to negate rack damage, chances are they could have played it anyway, but chose not to because it would make no difference. This is either a land (roughly 35-40% chance considering most deck's composition), a utility spell or a "bomb"(any card worth with a cmc of 4+). Cheap creatures will generally be played on turn, and utility spells will usually be instants cast in response to either inquisition or duress, so it doesn't really matter which you run. Sure, inquisition does not hit bombs, but neither does duress, since most bombs tends to be creatures.
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Thanks a lot for the long input! AFAIK, kozilek is a lot more expensive than duress, that'd be the only reason I'm preferring duress now. Am I right? As for the terrors, I was considering changing those for Go for the Throat. I guess I can mix those + doom blade so I can cover black/artifact creatures, right? Geth's verdict is a yes-yes, I will get those for sure. I will think about what you said, so I would just kill with rack+affection everytime, right? Your points sound quite reasonable. I will have some fun trying those stuff, as soon as my cards arrive.Thanks again!