Road to Kyoto '15 - 25/3/15

Yesterday, I went 3-1, losing to Painter and winning lands, aggro loam, UR delver.

The secret Bitterblossom played a huge part in winning against lands and aggro loam.
It helped to generate blockers vs a Marit Lage token and bought enough time for me to go for the kill.
Against aggro loam, Liliana could only stare at it while the tokens came down (and protected my goyf from a sac ability).
The sideboarded Life from the Loam came into good use as well so I think it deserves a solid spot. It does help against the delver matchups too.

I gave up trying to replace a goyf slot with Tasigur/Angler as I had a potential power boost from Bitterblossom (tribal ench) and I could reduce the damage count from blind Dark Confidant flips.

However, I do have thoughts on replacing Bob #3 with a Dig through Time as sometimes Dark Confidant isn't able to get the needed value when he's killed on sight. Naturally, my biggest issue is that a potential 8 in the blind Bob flips can be very intimidating and I could very well just lose a very critical game to it so I am unsure of whether or not this risk is worth taking. I shall ponder on this point.

I thought that I was up against RUG delver (when playing against UR delver) so I was quite happy when I stuck an Isochron Scepter with Diabolic Edict. I think Scepter and Abrupt Decay would go a long way in fighting some of the tough matchups (like painter) so I feel like I want to have this sideboard slot.

Also, because shardless is not as popular, the power of Divert seems very diminished as removals are cheap so they naturally have 2 mana up. I think I want to go with Redirect in place of Divert.

Duress was crappy in a critical moment vs Painter. I shall play 2x Thoughtseize (need to buy one).

Below is my current list:

3 Delver of Secrets
1 Bitterblossom
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Tarmogoyf
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Dark Confidant
1 True Name Nemesis
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
1 Gitaxian Probe
4 Stifle
2 Spell Pierce
3 Force of Will
4 Daze
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Diabolic Edict
4 Wasteland
8 Assorted Fetches
3 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island

1 Thoughtseize
1 Isochron Scepter
2 Marsh Casualties
1 Duress (gonna change this)
2 Divert (and this)
1 Grafdigger's Cage (hits 8 cards in Elves so why not)
1 Force of Will
1 Flusterstorm
1 Vendilion Clique

1 Massacre (random - need more thought into this)
1 Life from the Loam
1 Pithing Needle
1 Squid