CQ Invitationals 2013 T4

Last night, I got to top 4 in the CQ Invitationals 2013 with the following deck which is a deck similar to what I played in Legacy, using Kevin Cron's 4c Vintage Champs 2013 list but with a Gush Engine and tweaked some numbers.

1 Merchant Scroll

2 Lightning Bolt

4 Force of Will

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Wasteland

1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Tinker

1 Toxic Stench

1 Flooded Strand

2 Polluted Delta

1 Sensei's Divining Top

2 Misty Rainforest

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Blightsteel Colossus

2 Mental Misstep

2 Snapcaster Mage

1 Ancient Grudge

4 Brainstorm

1 Flusterstorm

1 Sol Ring

1 Island

1 Mana Crypt

2 Underground Sea

2 Mana Drain

2 Tropical Island

2 Volcanic Island

1 Fastbond

1 Time Vault

1 Library of Alexandria

1 Strip Mine

1 Abrupt Decay

3 Deathrite Shaman

4 Gush

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Voltaic Key

Sideboard

1 Pyroblast

2 Leyline of the Void

1 Trygon Predator

1 Yixlid Jailer

1 Mindbreak Trap

1 Nature's Claim

1 Steel Sabotage

1 Surgical Extraction

1 Ancient Grudge

3 Grafdigger's Cage

1 Flusterstorm

1 Abrupt Decay

This is what I managed to scout through the tournament. Games were all watchable so I had to use this information to get a slight edge.

Vs GW Hatebears 2-0
This matchup is not tough. The window to do what you want is very big. All I had to do was to protect my Blightsteel Colossus.

2 Grand Abolisher

3 Elvish Spirit Guide

4 Wasteland

2 Ghost Quarter

3 Aven Mindcensor

3 Tarmogoyf

3 Gaddock Teeg

4 Noble Hierarch

4 Qasali Pridemage

3 Student of Warfare

3 Leonin Arbiter

4 Razorverge Thicket

2 Leonin Relic-Warder

3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

4 Grafdigger's Cage

2 Path to Exile

4 Cavern of Souls

4 Savannah

1 Strip Mine

2 Kataki, War's Wage

Sideboard

2 True Believer

3 Stoneforge Mystic

3 Surgical Extraction

1 Batterskull

2 Path to Exile

4 Rest in Peace

Vs Laboratory Maniac 2-0
Not a tough matchup as I have ways to control the flow of the game.
I only have to deal with the Laboratory Maniac which is not difficult with this deck.
I caught him off guard by letting him try to deck out and used Lightning Bolt plus protection to turn the game around.

2 Hurkyl's Recall

1 Demonic Consultation

4 Force of Will

4 Thought Lash

1 Vampiric Tutor

3 Ancient Tomb

3 Flooded Strand

4 Polluted Delta

2 Annul

3 Sensei's Divining Top

4 Ponder

4 Mental Misstep

1 Dismember

4 Laboratory Maniac

4 Brainstorm

1 Sol Ring

6 Island

1 Swamp

1 Mana Crypt

3 Underground Sea

1 Dispel

1 Demonic Tutor

2 Swan Song

Sideboard

1 Hurkyl's Recall

2 Annul

3 Yixlid Jailer

1 Dismember

4 Grafdigger's Cage

3 Energy Flux

1 Swan Song

Vs Affinity 0-2
Crappy matchup. Did not have any good anti-affinity tech in my list.
I would think Meltdown or Seeds of Innocence or Hammer Mage (less so unless there is a mountain in the sb) would be good in the SB if trying to hate them.

4 Ancient Tomb

4 Wasteland

2 Gaea's Cradle

1 Tolarian Academy

1 Memory Jar

4 Tangle Wire

4 Arcbound Ravager

4 Genesis Chamber

4 Lodestone Golem

4 Memnite

2 Mox Opal

4 Phyrexian Revoker

4 Signal Pest

4 Skullclamp

1 Sol Ring

1 Mana Crypt

1 Mana Vault

4 Mishra's Workshop

1 Strip Mine

2 Steel Overseer

3 Frogmite

1 Mishra's Factory

Sideboard

1 Memory Jar

2 Thorn of Amethyst

2 Phyrexian Metamorph

2 Dismember

2 Witchbane Orb

4 Grafdigger's Cage

2 Tormod's Crypt

Vs BUG 2-0

Gush is a huge draw spell vs this archetype.
I have gas and answers and have a reasonable window to do my things.

4 Force of Will

4 Wasteland

4 Polluted Delta

2 Spell Snare

2 Trygon Predator

4 Tarmogoyf

3 Thoughtseize

2 Spell Pierce

2 Misty Rainforest

2 Verdant Catacombs

3 Mental Misstep

1 Dismember

1 Liliana of the Veil

4 Brainstorm

4 Underground Sea

1 Bayou

2 Tropical Island

1 Strip Mine

4 Abrupt Decay

4 Deathrite Shaman

1 Daze

1 Demonic Tutor

4 Dark Confidant

Sideboard

1 Trygon Predator

1 Yixlid Jailer

2 Nature's Claim

2 Dismember

4 Grafdigger's Cage

1 Flusterstorm

3 Energy Flux

1 Golgari Charm

Vs Bant 1-2

I'm actually favored in this matchup but things do not always go as planned.
Doesn't really matter here as 3-2 should get me into T8.

4 Force of Will

4 Wasteland

3 Windswept Heath

1 Sword of Fire and Ice

1 Umezawa's Jitte

3 Trygon Predator

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Noble Hierarch

2 Knight of the Reliquary

2 Spell Pierce

4 Misty Rainforest

3 Stoneforge Mystic

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

3 Mental Misstep

1 Batterskull

4 Brainstorm

1 Island

1 Forest

1 Savannah

2 Tundra

1 Karakas

3 Tropical Island

1 Strip Mine

4 Swords to Plowshares

2 Truefire Paladin

Sideboard

2 Nature's Claim

4 Grafdigger's Cage

1 Bojuka Bog

2 Energy Flux

4 Rest in Peace

2 Kataki, War's Wage

T8: Vs Laboratoy Maniac
Lost game 1 and had to claw back through games 2 and 3, with a very dangerous state where Mana Crypt almost kills me.

T4: Vs Affinity
Gave away game 1 from a position where I would have won. I had Mana Crypt again and had to get rid of it. I had Vampiric Tutor and Key Vault in hand. I scripted a play that involved searching for Tinker, top it into hand, sac Mana Crypt, get Sol Ring, Key Vault for the win.
It was 5+am and I had a mental lapse when the deck showed up. I thought I was doing Tinker when I was still at Vampiric Tutor so I put Sol Ring on the deck. I had only colorless mana with a Deathrite Shaman so I could only survive by not losing to Mana Crypt flips and finding an Underground Sea or Tropical Island to cast Abrupt Decay on the Mana Crypt but I couldn't even with 2 extra turns.
Lost game 2 with little effort.