I played my first, and probably last MTGO challenge today (takes to much time).
Warning blue haters, there will be mentions of cantrips! Here is a quick recap
Match 1 - DnT (last weeks runner up), lost die roll
G1) He plays t1 mom, t2 stoneforge mystic
I play t1 brainstorm eot into an t2 kill of ruby medallion Rof Seething song bonus round wish for hazorets
G2) I mull to 6
He starts vial go, i go land petal, he then casts aethersworn canonist. I almost throw this game away as i think i need to kill canonist before he probably vials in mother of runes and think about playing seething song -> fiery confluence... not a good play with a canonist in play. Instead i brainstorm and he eot vials in mom. His turn he plays flickerwisp and on my turn i play confluence, killing vial mom and flickerwisp leaving him with canonist. He has double port at this time, but i manage to sneak in a ruby medallion when he jams batterskull and a turn later eot echoing truth on canonist and then win on my turn (through double port). had 2 mana left and a ruby, played seething bonus -> burning for rite and hazoret.
Match 2 - Moon stompy lost die again.
G1) He goes t1 rabblemaster, t2 trinisphere, rough!
I go land petal,and keep doing landdrops until my third turn (he has no turn 3 play) and facing lethal with a trinisphere on the table... I simply cast seething song, bonus round, rite of flame, 2 x manamorphose which chains into another bonus round and manamorphose and a seething song. Had burning wish the whole game so just wish for Fiery confluence for the win.
G2) I mull to 5 and keep Wish, SSG, Desperate, RoF, Tomb, scry.... sees bonus round!
He goes mountain petal chalice for zero , i guess he had scabclan in hand for t2. As i have a deterministic turn 1 kill i win.
Match 3 - Burn, lost the die
G1) he goes t1 goblin guide, t2 stuck on 1 land and plays rift bolt
I go t1 ponder and play 2 lotus petal. T2 i play Tomb, and brainstorm into a nice kill
RoF - Splice Desperate ritual, intuition for 1x rof 1x manamorphose 1x pif. My last card in hand is burning wish, and i manage to get exactly 19 storm from just cantripping and ritualing. So i wish for grapeshot and win.
G2) I throw this one away, i have abrade from start, so i dont fear his t2 eidolon that much. I get in a situation where i could probably go off on turn 3,but as the only thing that damaged me sofar is one eidolon hit i just play ruby medallion to cast my eot reforge i set up on t1. 16 life cant go so quickly i think. He hits me with eidolon, plays PoP and the 4damage spell. 6 life, i abrade eidolon (why not before combat?!?) 4 life, manamorphose reforge and he draws the fireblast.
G3) i just kill him turn 2 (Tomb Seething song bonus round manamorphose into ponder)
3-0!
Match 4 - Miracles, lost the die
G1) I keep a okayish hand that lacks cantrips. I never draw any cantrips and by turn 5 all i have drawn is lands, lotus petals and bonus rounds. I do have so much initial mana so my plan becomes playing 2 bonus rounds and then rof into a reforge. But he has sculpted his hand for 5 turns so nothing resolves and he plays back to basics on his turn.
G2) I felt defeated before the game begun. I kept a hand with 4 land, 2 ruby medallion and a RoF. In hindsight i don't see any reason for keeping this as i had boarded out all 4 reforge. I needed to string together a lot of good draws, or at least any cantrips. This does not happen before he lands counterbalance and jace.
Annoying match, as i have a pretty good % against miracles usually, but those two games felt mostly like i did not do anything at all.
Match 5 - Moon stompy, lost the die roll (5th in a row!?)
G1) Still tilted i keep another bad hand with Tomb as my only land and a lotus petal, but not really anything to do with them besides a Reforge. Good for me he starts with magus of the moon so i at least have a permanent red source :) I RoF out a ruby medallion and play petal. He has no play t2 (thanks to his own magus) and i top deck desperate ritual so i can cast reforge into the win from a land, a desperate ritual a bonus round and 2x manamorphose.
G2) I mull to 5, he plays leyline and chalice for one, sad as i had a ponder. A trinisphere follows and as i am stuck on 1 land it feels rough. I manage to find a ancient tomb, and decide to abrade the chalice, my opponent is stuck on 2 mana, and if i could draw another mana source from my ponder i could win the following turn. I ponder and get what i need to win, my opponent gets his third mana and slams scab-clan :(, Lost the game.
G3) I mull to 6, the rite of flames look good in my hand for t2 but his curve is
t1: Chalice for 1
t2: Chalice for 2
t3: Scab-clan
I never find Fiery Confluence and die quickly.
3-2
Match 6 vs some depthsdeck, and, you guessed it! Lost the die roll
G1) My t1 brainstorm sets me up for a t2 eot Reforge off volcanic - tomb manamorphose, i respond to the reforge with brainstom to put back a ritual and a burning wish and win easily on my turn.
G2) He goes full turbo depths while i play it slowly. I neaaaarly lost this game because i f6ed to end my turn and he esgd and made a marit lage token, while he is in his mainphase i realize that i have no stop other than eot, but quickly manage to set one so i could echoing truth marit lage and then untap and win.
Match 7, UR Delver. I LOST THE DIE ROLL.
G1) He plays t1 delver, i play tomb petal go, he bolts me and attack with delver. I untap, play volcanic, ponder into another RoF and play 2 -> bonus round -> manamorphose into the two cards of ponder which win me the game.
G2) I mull to 6 and get stuck on 1 land, rofs out a ruby, but multiple dazes stop me from doing anything while the t1 delver kills me.
G3) Long interesting game. I play ruby t1. T2 i cast RoF, burning wish, hoping he would daze my burning wish to stop goblins as i have a seething song in hand. He does not daze, i could now play seething and another ruby to go for 10 goblins, but as he does not seem scared of goblins i decided to just make 6, he dazes one of them so it's only 4. Next turn i ponder to find a bonus round and a manamorphose but still stuck on 1 red mana so have to pass. He Forked bolted 2 of my goblins and flip a delver. I try to go for it but he fows my seething song. Next turn he bolts me, i respond with abrade on his delver. He plays Pteramander. I draws the ritual i need and win from there.
5-2 Ended up 16th place with only one 5-2 making top 8. 122 players total.
Decklist can be found at
https://magic.wizards.com/en/article...nge-2019-03-11
Deck felt good, SSG was not _that_ good, but still OK. 3x flusterstorm in the sideboard was not needed this time, but i'm reluctant to go down to 2 as they are really good vs other combo and grixis. I would actually want to fit another fiery confluence in, and i miss hope of ghirapur. The only cards that sometimes make me feel like "noooo not this now" is burning wish, bonus round and Reforge the soul. Still don't think i would like to go down to three of any of them. I only wish i could play 6-7 brainstorm to shuffle away unwanted duplicates more often.
I felt i got pretty good draws overall, probably slightly above average, but losing 7 of 7 die rolls felt insane.