pASS or GAS! The First Sliver (#8) cEDH

Would you keep this hand from this cEDH deck by Killstars and Pongo?
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As long as you are not going first, This is one of the hands that you need to decide if you want to risk going all in on one thing as quickly as possible. That one thing is going to be Ad Naus. You are uniquely positioned to resolve a turn 2 Ad Naus – without protection, however. The big IF for this hand is whether the literal gamble will pay off for you. By the time you cast Gamble on T2, you have a 25% chance of discarding your Ad Naus and game plan if you play your hand out correctly. Leading up to that 2nd turn gamble, you are just playing out this hand’s fast mana.

This hand is as fast as it gets in cEDH, but you must be willing to risk it all to get there.

I would play this hand out like this:

T0: Put Gemstone Caverns into play, tucking mox diamond (five cards in hand)
T1. Draw for the turn. Play Wooded Foothills (Find Bayou). Play Grim Monolith. (four cards in hand)
T2. Draw for the turn. Play Bad Lands. Now, you have four cards in hand and six mana on board. Use a red mana to cast Gamble, finding your Ad Naus (with a 25% chance to discard it).

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