Last night I played the below 61 cards to a 4-0 finish.
3 Lion's Eye Diamond
3 Doomsday
4 Dark Ritual
2 Cabal Ritual
4 Brainstorm
1 Ideas Unbound
3 Burning Wish
4 Gitaxian Probe
1 Pact of Negation
1 Laboratory Maniac
2 Ponder
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Divert
1 Mental Note
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Spell Pierce
1 Unearth
1 Duress
1 Lotus Petal
1 Cloud of Faeries
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
2 Darkslick Shores
2 Underground Sea
1 Scalding Tarns
1 Shelldock Isle
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Volcanic Island
1 Tropical Island
1 Force of Will
1 Void Snare
1 Doomsday
2 Toxic Deluge
1 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
2 Xantid Swarm
1 Tendrils of Agony
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Massacre
1 Ponder
Bought a LED for $100 (so $75 minus $25 leftover store credit).
Thankfully I went 4-0 to get back $80 worth of store credit (or 2x Arid Mesa but I don't think I want that now) so I'm technically good, only that my funds are stuck as store credit.
Round 1 vs Reanimator
Game 1 was slow on his side. I could not make out what I was against until I cast Duress. Fortunately, I was clear to initiate the kill.
Game 2, my opponent reanimated Iona naming blue. I had a Cloud of Faeries in play so I set up Shelldock Isle + Emrakul and an Unearth to try to untap the Isle. Unfortunately, it got countered by a Force of Will and I was at 7 life.
Game 3, we traded Duress/Thoughtseize and I managed to top into a Thoughtseize for his post Entomb turn which nabbed Reanimate. The game dragged a little to where I got to cast Pact of Negation and pay for it. I cast Doomsday for the Emrakul kill since it sidesteps whatever reanimation targets and would win by itself.
Round 2 vs Burn
Game 1, I did a storm kill after setting up abit.
Game 2, I was not in a situation to Doomsday into a probable kill.
Game 3, I Doomsday-ed down from 6 to 3 and he immediately tried to cast Lightning Bolt even before I picked up my deck when he asked for my life. So I explained that if he wanted me to be at 3, I would have to stack my deck first. Got a little messy but since he was so eager to Bolt me, I put a Pact of Negation on top of the deck (which I probably wouldn't have thought of). I had double LED and a Gitaxian Probe so I guided him saying that I would have priority first. I cast LED and asked if he would like to Lightning Bolt me, which he did and I flipped Top into Pact of Negation, then casually went off to probe into top, discard my hand to double LED (which would have had the pact), cast top, draw Ideas Unbound and storm killed. (If he was not so eager, I would have lost)
Round 3 vs Jund
Game 1, it went slow and I could not assemble my cards on time and the creatures ended the game.
Game 2, I stormed up a 11 point Tendrils of Agony for his 21 life and managed to cast Pact of Negation on his Punishing Fire after I went down to 2, again capitalizing on the fact that I would have loss if he waited a little - for me to discard my hand. We both knew he had Punishing Fire since he returned it to hand a turn earlier.
Game 3, he mulliganed down to 1 in an attempt to get Leyline of Sanctity out.
I easy won that.
Round 4 vs Lands
Game 1, he tried to go for an early Marit Lage but I was a turn ahead and I stormed up 20 points.
Game 2, he had Chalice of the Void on zero and was attacking my lands with Ghost Quarter/Wasteland. I declined searching for a third basic land after he quartered my Swamp that was
quartered from an Island. I had double fetches in play and he tried to quarter my fetchland to force me to get a nonbasic. I cracked and saw a second Swamp (my land base online is different from my real life deck) so I was pleasantly surpirsed to see it and that foiled his plan for the turn.
I managed to Brainstorm into Doomsday to set up the Lab Maniac kill.
I had a fetchland in hand and Unearth in hand with Force of Will backup so my pile (going to pass the turn) was Mental Note - Lab Maniac - Gitaxian Probe - Gitaxian Probe -Underground Sea.
He quartered my swamp and wastelanded my Underground sea, leaving me with a Tropical Island in play.
I drew Mental Note, played my fetchland, cast Mental note, binnned Lab Maniac and card 3, drew probe, fetched Underground Sea, cast Unearth, cast Gitaxian Probe to end the game.
Changes:
I am going to change a Cabal Ritual for Rain of Filth tonight. A fifth Dark Ritual would be better than the second Cabal Ritual for sure. I know I have one but I couldn't dig it out yesterday so I'll just buy one later.
Of my sideboard, I am skeptical of Void Snare (bounce) but I'll try it for awhile.
I am trying a Flusterstorm in place of a Toxic Deluge for now.
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