[Deck] Solidarity

U/g Solidarity
Land
2 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
11 Island
2 Tropical Island

Spells
4 Brainstorm
4 Opt

4 High Tide
4 Reset

4 Impulse
3 Peer Through Depths

4 Three Wishes
3 Meditate

3 Cunning Wish
3 Turnabout

4 Force of Will
1 Brain Freeze

SB:
1 Echoing Truth
1 Meditate
1 Turnabout
1 Rebuild
1 Brain Freeze
1 Stroke of Genius
2 Krosan Grip
3 Hunting Pack
3 Autumn’s Veil

Post-board against control:
-2 Force of Will
-1 Three Wishes
+3 Autumn's Veil
(Post-board against CB +1 Krosan Grip, -1 Three Wishes)

Against control, you usually need to deal with more than one piece of countermagic. Force doesn't get there as protection. You can afford to slow down, hit more land drops, and use a single G (maybe even at the expense of a Wasteland), to stop X countermagic. Against CB, you have access to Grip if they can land a CB, but you ought to keep in Force and cut some Wishes in this case.

Post-board against aggro:
-3 Force of Will
+3 Hunting Pack
You raise the threat density and increase the chances of an Early Hunting Pack.

I'll be testing it this week against Zoo and New Horizons.

Well, here's what I have been using for the past month or so. It's performed well at all my playtesting sessions, as well as my own guantlet.

Land

12 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tropical Island
1 Forest

Mana/Untap

3 High Tide
3 Turnabout
4 Reset

Draw

3 Meditate
2 Flash of Insight
4 Impulse
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Brainstorm

Protection

4 Force of Will
2 Cryptic Command
1 Remand

Other

2 Brain Freeze
4 Cunning Wish

SB

1 Stroke of Genius
1 High Tide
1 Meditate
1 Turnabout
1 Brain Freeze
1 Hunting Pack
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Rebuild
7 Other

As I say, I've been very happy with this build, though I toy with switching the Cryptics for Remand or Echoing Truth in the maindeck. Spanish Inquisition has just moved into my meta (and Belcher showed up a month back) and I am feeling the need to improve my fast combo matchup.


-Silent Requiem

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Originally Posted by ummon

Yes, the mana cost can be somewhat prohibitive. Still, from the limited testing I have done, it felt worth it. I wish Ideas Unbound was instant speed.

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I thought so...mmm...well. I think that cryptic command may improve the versatility of our deck while 3 wishes is full procombo. I noticed that the silent requiem's list runs just 1 remand! Isn't this too poor?? I think that 2 / 3 copies helps us for the aims of the combo and to slow the opponent.

Could be this counterwall viable?

4 Fow
2 Remand
2 Cryptic command

Remand is a great trick when combined with BF. Its unplayable though if you want to include Autumn's Veil has protection. Veil beats X countermagic for G. I'd forego Remand for that. Once I can get my hands on Three Wishes I'm going to test them at my local meta. It will probably run more like SI, chaining D3's and D4's together, but I can deal with that cause I play SI all the time. The counterwall just isn't good against much when you can play better cards. You usually don't need to worry about what your opponent is playing unless its really fast aggro, or disrupts you (exception = stax as you can just comfortably set up and then Rebuild). So aggro, combo, or countermagic. Aggro, Hunting Pack looks like a strong SB option. I practically want to make room for the 4th one. It functions as a virtual Fog as you can surprise block your opponents team with Hunting Pack on turn 3/4, and then beat face. Against combo, you actually lose Mindbreak Trap if you opt for Veil instead. But countermagic is a joke with access to Veil. How is Hunting Pack working out for those trying it? Even Hunting Pack for 4/5 beasts looks like a pretty strong offensive wall, especially when you can chump attackers, and then build up into another spell chain if need be.

Silent Requiem, how often is your Cunning Wish into High Tide? It looks good having that option, opting for a more consistent turn 4. I guess you would board out -1 Cunning Wish, and +1 High Tide if your goal was to get a fast Hunting Pack (T3 ideally) post-board against aggro. I just might do this. Then the first few cantrips can be put toward hitting land drops and finding Meditates/Resets. Turn 3, Wish --> High Tide, Turn 4, go off.

I'm certainly a fan of Remand, and I have run builds with 4 Remand. However, if I want to go up to 20 land I have to lose something. The obvious candidates are Remand, Cryptic Command, and Brain Freeze.

I decided against dropping down to one Brain Freeze on the basis that I find Freezing myself to be a broken play when forced to go off with a less than ideal hand (or because I have Meditated into something awful). Two Brain Freeze makes that reasonably possible. It also means I can safely pitch an early Freeze to FoW, knowing I can draw into another.

So it came down to Cryptic v Remand. It was a tough choice, but in the end I felt Cryptic was more valuable. It's slow, but it makes for a very strong late game. It also deals with all sorts of random stuff after it has resolved.

Remand, on the otherhand, is dead against Vial aggro (which I see a lot of, especially Merfolk) and I don't feel it is as good as it used to be. The format has gotten faster, and many threats can be recast on the same turn, which turns Remand into a 2 mana cantrip. And because the format is faster, Remand is less useful for baiting counters - often there is simply no "next turn" to try comboing off on.

Varicx has rightly pointed out that Remand does not go well with Autumn's Veil. I'm not really testing Veil right now, but he makes a good point. And while some people will remind me that Remand lets you get off a lethal Freeze earlier, I would suggest that I have never had any difficulty storming up to 17, and that two Brain Freeze acheives exactly the same effect as Remand and Brain Freeze (and with four Cunning Wish getting two Brain Freeze is pretty trivial).

So I dropped down to 1 Remand for the time being. It's definately something I'm keeping under review, though.

As for Wishing for Tide, I can honestly say that I do so only rarely. I run 4 Impulse and 4 Peer Through Depths, which is a ton of digging power. Add to that the fact that I generally don't need to dig for land, and I don't have too much problem finding a maindeck Tide. When I can't, however, wishing for it is absolutely golden. Perhaps even more importantly, having the additional Wish makes my wishboard more accessable, which can also turn the game around when you need a solution "right now". A typical example might be Wishing for Grip in response to Counterbalance, and casting it the following turn.

Although I tried some maindeck Hunting Packs in Bahamuth's build (where they worked beautifully, btw), I leave mine in the SB now. I actually want to wish for Pack because it helps me build storm (Tide, untap, untap, Wish, Pack = GG). However, that's just a personal preference. I certainly think that a more Pack focused build could be viable, although I don't know where I would find room in my sideboard for all those Packs.

-Silent Requiem

For Merfolk, is Trickbinding their Coralhelm Commander a strong stalling plan? It seems like it would be because they won't be able to Level it during that turn.

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Originally Posted by Darkenslight

For Merfolk, is Trickbinding their Coralhelm Commander a strong stalling plan? It seems like it would be because they won't be able to Level it during that turn.

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Preventing a whopping one damage.

It could be a lot more than one damage. If your opponent already had 3 counters on it and also had additional merfolk in play, the difference between having the 4th counter and not would be a lot more than 1 damage. That said, nobody is going to be wasting slots or a Cunning Wish for Trickbind, and the majority of the time there are better things to do with a card in hand and two mana.

As to dropping Remands, I find it awkward even though I agree that the card falls short in some matchups (Merfolk, for example). I really want tempo-plays (which cantrip) on turns 2 and/or 3 because I think it is necessary for getting to at least turn 4 against some decks. The best replacement I've tried is Repeal (discussed in this thread many times already). It cantrips and buys tempo in the early game (when we need it most). Cards like Vial can't play around Repeal like they can Remand. End-step Repeals can even buy a bit more tempo than Remand if the opponent would have enough mana to recast the spell. That said, there are so many cases where Repeal just isn't even close to Remand in power level--this ranges from the array of Stack tricks, to enabling the combo, to sheer mana efficiency.



peace,
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After testing, my updated build:

13 Island
6 Fetches

4 High Tide
4 Reset
3 Turnabout

4 Brainstorm
2 Peek (or maybe 1/1 Opt/Peek)
4 Impulse
4 Peer Through Depths

4 Meditate
1 Flash of Insight

3 Cunning Wish

4 Force of Will
3 Remand
1 Cryptic Command

Sideboard:
2 Brain Freeze
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Turnabout
1 Three Wishes
1 Cryptic Command
1 Wipe Away
1 Echoing Truth
1 Rebuild
1 Ravenous Trap
3 Hydroblast
2 Spell Pierce

I no longer have the problem of drawing a dead Brain Freeze because I just have them in the sideboard. One FoI main has been excellent, even without ever freezing myself for more gas.

I hate builds with 4 Cunning Wish. You shouldn't need to use Cunning Wish to set up your combo; you should just use cantrips to sculpt your hand. Cunning Wish is just so slow, it's not really good for sculpting the necessary collection of Tide/untap/draw, if you're under pressure. It's good to have an untap effect and a cheap draw spell in the board, so you won't fizzle if your hand is just Cunning Wish. But beyond that, I really think Cunning Wish is more for solving hate cards (or getting hate cards) or simply finding Brain Freeze FTW. The only reason why I run 3 Cunning Wish instead of 2 is that the third Cunning Wish is better than a maindeck Brain Freeze in a mid-combo situation where you need to avoid fizzling.

The only green card worth splashing is Krosan Grip, which is something you can accept getting Wastelanded over. Any jank like Autumn's Veil or Hunting Pack (in a deck based on Meditate? wtf?!?!!!) just doesn't warrant getting a land raped by the plethora of Wastelands in the metagame.

I've been playing this deck for a while now, and I've noticed that the majority of lists don't run MD bounce.
Due to the prevalence of aggro in my meta, I decided that 2 x Repeals were the answer.
All I can say is they've been wonderful, especially mid-game.
I don't run Cryptic, because I feel its too slow. I just bounce whatever is causing me headaches and
draw a card.
Its pretty awesome, Turn 2 bouncing vials, lackeys, or whatever. In games like that, a turn two Repeal can be similar to a time walk,
and I find that this really helps the clock.

I had tried an odd card while in Columbus for my Landstill build and it worked so amazingly well, I instantly thought about this deck since it has that problem of being just a turn too slow for things like Zoo, Goblins, and Merfolk when the have the nuts or even a decent quick draw.

I played Drop of Honey. It worked quite well. I had a lot of games like this.

1st turn - They drop Steppe Lynx or some other annoying creature that hits hard. I drop Drop of Honey.
2nd turn - They stare at Drop of Honey and re-read it a few times. <I love any card that does that> Then they swing and say go. I take my turn, Drop dies along with whatever they had played.

So when you stop and think about this scenario, I managed to Innocent Blood 2nd turn and Fog my third turn due to the fact no one wants to play into it and have more than one dude die to it. That's pretty damned solid for a single G. Now this is taking into account that they are smart and play around it. If they just try to play through it, it's basically playing under an Abyss that came out 3 turns quicker. Good luck with that.

Against Goblins, they seemed to have no choice, but to play into it. It probably killed 3 goblins before going away due to them being out of creatures. Seems ok. Hasty guys were annoying, but I didn't mind too much considering the investment I had into this card.

Seems like a good fit into this deck to buy those much wanted turns. I know a couple of you run green anyway for that flashback fog. What do you think of this one? I might give it a shot, but it's been a long time since I picked up Solidarity and figured people who still play it could answer it better.

I tested this board today. My MD was -1 High Tide +1 Cunning Wish

SB:
1 High Tide
1 Meditate
1 Turnabout
1 Rebuild
1 Brain Freeze
1 Stroke of Genius
2 Krosan Grip
3 Autumn’s Veil
4 Hunting Pack

Against aggro:
+4 Hunting Pack
-4 Force of Will

In short, it was pretty amazing, but I still want to cut my playset of Remands down to 0. In practically every game, it would have been better as a Three Wishes. And... I wanted the 19th land on occasion.

Against Zoo, Hunting Pack was phenomenal. Against Goblins... it was much weaker. It took a few hands to figure out how best to approach that matchup. Post-board Bloodmoons and Pyroblasts combined with a fast clock AND MD Wasteland is not a fun matchup. I still managed to go like 50/50 against gobos today, despite limited experience with this build. I'll keep on top of testing and see how things go. Also, 4th Cunning Wish with High Tide in the board is just phenomenal. I wish for it all the time now and feel much more comfortable finding WC when going off.

@I never smile: Is 1 cryptic really useful?? I'd run 1 addtional FoI instead.

And i liked very mucho the idea of including 3 wishes in the MD or in the side. I'll test 4 meditate MD and 1 3 wishes in the board!

While I see the merits of splashing green, I'm iffy on cutting Remand. That card alone does so many tricks for the deck, and has proven to be very valuable to my personal style in playing with the deck.

I think 1 Cryptic main is good. It's card advantage, an answer to most anything, and a tap-down effect. If you're playing against Counterbalance (which most of the games vs CB are, these days), it's good to have a 4th bounce spell maindeck, alongside the 3 Cunning Wishes. I like that it's another hard counter for counter-wars. It somewhat fills in a blank spot where I would otherwhise have the 4th Cunning Wish or FoI, which are both basically slower tools for similar jobs (bouncing stuff, winning counter-wars, providing card advantage, etc.). I'm currently running a second one in the board because I love it in a number of match-ups, and it's actually a pretty good wish target. The main reason why I'm just not maindecking both of them is space--I'm trying to keep the mana curve in check, and keep the maximum ability to sculpt a combo-rrific hand quickly.

@Drop of Honey: This is the kind of card that gets worse against players who know what they're doing. Bad aggro players will get destroyed by it. Good aggro players will play right through it. And it clearly is not a good answer for turn 1 Lackey because your opponent will always get a swing before you get to destroy a creature of his. Regardless of whether you kill the lackey or not, one swing is all it takes for the proverbial damage to be done...in most cases.

If you're going to splash for some kind of anti-aggro card, wouldn't red serve those needs better? You have the following options:

Bolt
Fire/Ice
Firespout (I don't care if this is a sorcery; the answer is insane and it can't be Red Blasted)

In addition, you gain Pyroblasts, and I'm sure there are other good red cards that I missed. If you're willing to splash a color just to really hammer down on aggro decks, at least play a color with great removal. Or if you're going to splash green, just board in Goyfs.

I feel much the same about Cryptic. It's much like FoW, in that there are loads of cards that duplicate any given effect more efficiently, but none that duplicate ALL the effects. In one game it might be to tap creatures swinging for lethal, in another it's a hard counter, and then in the next it bounces hate. Sometimes I even find myself doing two of those at once. It's such a flexible card.

With four Cunning Wish and a very diverse meta, I am toying with making my most of my sideboard into a wishboard. At the moment I only have three cards in the side that would actually come in to the main in a matchup (Krosan Grip and GY hate). Sor far it seems to be working.

I agree that the red splash would be stronger if it actually answered counterbalance. Being able to gain card advantage through uncounterable removal (or even just 1:1 trades) would be very strong. But that's just not where the deck needs the most help.

-Silent Requiem

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Originally Posted by i-never-smile

After testing, my updated build:
The only green card worth splashing is Krosan Grip, which is something you can accept getting Wastelanded over. Any jank like Autumn's Veil or Hunting Pack (in a deck based on Meditate? wtf?!?!!!) just doesn't warrant getting a land raped by the plethora of Wastelands in the metagame.

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Agree about Autumn's Veil, but you couldn't be more wrong about Hunting Pack. Test it. I had the same initial reaction that you had, then I tested it. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

Van Phanel do you thinks mono-u solidarity is dead?

I think since the banning of Mystical Tutor Solidarity just gets more powerful, however the deck is the deck in the entire Magic the deck that is most skill required and the deck that needs a lot of dedication and daily training (in order to do high performance tournaments with it) ...

Another tourney report for yall.

Deck: Mono U Solidarity
Location: Monster Den- the competition here is fierce like Tarvaris Jackson. I know of at least seven Monster Den regulars that made day two at GP: Columbus, so the level of play here is very high. It is a special 1.5 tournament today, as the top eight win prizes such as Goyfs, FOWs, duals, etc., entry fee being $15. I hope to make top eight so I can win duals, which will allow me to play other decks.

Decklist:

17 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
19 land

4 High Tide
4 Reset
4 Force of Will
4 Impulse
4 Brainstorm
4 Peer Through Depths
3 Remand
3 Turnabout
3 Cunning Wish
3 Meditate
2 Opt
1 Peek
1 Twincast
1 Brain Freeze

Sideboard:
1 Mediate
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Turnabout
1 Echoing Truth
1 Rebuild
1 Twincast
2 Pact of Negation
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Brain Freeze
3 Wipe Away
2 Repeal

Round 1: Jake with Hypergenesis
Game 1: I am forced to counter an early Hypergenesis with Remand. He counters with Force, I Force back. He plays Show and Tell next turn, which I have no responses to since I spent up all of my countermagic the previous turn. Proggy gets to me three turns later after a Turnabout prolongs the game a turn.
Game 2: The details of this game are unclear to me after a long day of Magic, but I believe I am able to fully Stroke him to death without the help of Brain Freeze.
Game 3: He goes for an early Show and Tell with mana acceleration; I Force, and he thankfully has no responses. I Remand Hypergenesis a few turns later, and Force another Show and Tell a few turns after that. At this point, I have a lot of lands in play and am able to go off. I cast Brain Freeze and then counter it with Remand. He reveals a few cards until Emrakul is shown. I Freeze again, another Emrakul a few cards down. I Stroke him for the rest of his library.

Match Record: 1-0
Game Record: 2-1

Round 2: Bearmon with Zoo
Game 1: He gets a T1 Nacatl, and gets me to 5 with three Islands out. I combo off and am successful, casting a Wished and maindecked Freeze to get his whole library. Unfortunately, he takes his first Meditate turn and upkeep dub Bolts me. I don't have a counter and die.
Game 2: He lands a QP on turn two, Knight on T3 which I Repeal on T4. He recasts it next turn along with Lavamancer. Next turn he gets me down to 2 life and Bolts in his second main phase. I go off in response. I get to a point with four mana floating and two Resets in hand. I cast one of them, he Fireblasts in response. I cast the other one in response and win with Freeze and Stroke a little bit later.
Game 3: He gets me down to 5 by around T4 with Nacatl and Loam Lion. I try to go off but don't have a lot of gas. I cast my lone card drawer, Meditate, with a generous amount of mana floating. I draw Island, Force, Turnabout, Turnabout, so he wins next turn.

Match Record: 1-1
Game Record: 3-3

Round 3: Angela with Belcher
Game 1: I Force a turn two or three Seething Song after she plays a lot of gas beforehand. She tries to go off again, but I Cunning Wish for Mindbreak Trap. I win a few turns later as she is unable to fill her hand in time with more Belcher goodness.
Game 2: I open a hand with no lands, but two Force of Wills. I think about it for a minute and decide to mulligan; this could have been a mistake, but it seemed foolish to keep a hand with no lands. My new hand is okay, but without Force of Will, Mindbreak Trap, or Echoing Truth. I probably should have mulliganed down to five here, but don't. She gets twelve goblin tokens out on turn one. I dig for Echoing Truth with Brainstorm, but come up unsuccessful.
Game 3: She mulligans, I keep. She leads with a turn two Xantid Swarm, which I counter with Force of Will. Nothing happens for a few turns until she tries another Swarm, but I Force again. She casts Land Grant, which allow me to see her hand and plan accordingly. I counter something, and Remand her Duress later to protect my only High Tide. At this point, I am in somewhat of a sticky situation as I don't have much gas. I get storm up to seven next turn in response to Duress and Brain Freeze her, countering it with another Remand. The ninth card she reveals is a sideboarded Kozilek, which throws me for a loop. She tries to shuffle her library in with her graveyard, but I tell her I have responses. I get to a situation after a tough Impulse and Peer with thirty-five cards in her deck, ten mana, Cunning Wish, and Brain Freeze with storm at ten. I wish for Stroke, cast Stroke for 2 for the twelfth spell and respond to it with Brain Freeze without passing priority as the thirteenth spell. She doesn't understand how Kozilek's trigger works with the stack and calls Grant, the guy at the desk who is the acting judge you could say. I am very worried at this point that something will happen to make me lose the match, but Grant understands everything I did with stacking Stroke under Freeze and I win.

Match Record: 2-1
Game Record: 5-4

Round 4: Gerry Thompson with U/R/g Pyromancer Ascension
Gerry built a ballin ass deck for the tournament. It included playsets of Ponder, BStorm, Preordain, Manamorphose, Bolt, AK, and Regrowth. The deck tries to Intuition for AK, cast it EOT and begin the next turn with eleven cards in hand trying to combo off with Ascension/Regrowth/Bolt or Grapeshot, drawing cards and adding mana with copies of Manamorphose and filtering with the aforementioned 1 CC draw spells.
Game 1: I am blessed with three High Tides over the course of the game. After finding the necessary parts with Impulses, I High Tide at end of turn after he's built up storm a bit with Preordains. He Forces, I lay another one. He casts Accumulated Knowledge in response, I lay another one, which resolves, and then follow up with an untap effect. I Wish for Mindbreak Trap and exile his two spells. I build storm up to fifteen and cast Wish, to which he concedes.
Game 2: Things go very similar to game one the first few turns, him playing Brainstorms and Ponders, me playing Impulses and Peers. I Remand a turn 4 Ascension to try to tap him out, but he doesn't recast it and ends his turn. Eventually, I try to go off but he as a lot of counterspells, including sideboarded Dispels. I let him have my High Tide so I can hold on to Force. The next turn, he goes off. He draws around fifteen cards with a copy of Accumulated Knowledge and some Ponders and Brainstorms. I try to Brain Freeze him with the storm at around nine in response to a draw spell since he only has around fifteen cards left, but he plays a Force of Will and a Pyroblast, which along with his three Ascensions counters pretty much all of the Freeze copies. He Grapeshots for the win shortly afterward. This was a very intense game that I feel a more experienced Solidarity player could have won, but it was a deck I had never played against so I didn't know exactly what to expect.
Game 3: I am a little low on lands by turn five, but it's okay because he hasn't done much either. The cause of his slow start is revealed after I Peek at his hand to find three Force of Wills, a Dispel, an Ascension, an AK, and a Regrowth. I am not able to overcome his countermagic and lose.

Match Record: 2-2
Game Record: 6-6

Round 5: Tom with Saito Mermen
Game 1: He starts off fairly slow due to only having one blue land. I take advantage of this and get a lot of lands out. I am able to eventually push through some countermagic and Freeze his library the turn before lethal.
Game 2: He gets a turn one Cursecatcher out, followed by a Lord of Atlantis not long after. I halfheartedly attempt to go off, with a Remand in hand to rescue my High Tide if need be. I High Tide, he Spell Pierces. I pay 2, he Pierces me again, with me only having three untapped lands remaining. Instead of casting Reset to continue going off, I resign to Remand the High Tide, but if memory serves, he has the Force. I am beaten by vile Mermen in short order after a valiant chaining of four Resets and various draw spells, unable to find another High Tide.
Game 3: He has another early Cursecatcher, but it's his only Merman for the first few turns. Afterwards, he plays Standstill. Just like game one, he doesn't have much blue mana available due to drawing Wastelands. Catcher gets me down to 16 before I break Standstill on his end step with Impulse with him having six cards in hand. He allows it to resolve and discards down to size. Next turn, Catcher is followed with longtime Merman companion Silvergill Adept, revealing Reejerey. I Peek at his hand to find two Dazes, two Extirpates, a Force, and a Vial. I get rid of one of the Dazes by casting Cunning Wish with no untapped lands. My life is plummeting as I pull off a successful High Tide/Remand trick the following turn, taking his Force and second Daze. At this point, he only has once black source in play, an Underground Sea. I know he's waiting to Extirpate High Tide and an untap effect. He thankfully doesn't Extirpate Cunning Wish at the end of my turn and is still bottlenecked at one black source after drawing his card for the turn. With me at 3 life, I try to combo off in the beginning combat step, playing High Tide in response to another so he can't Extirpate like he wanted. I cast Reset, which he Extirpates, removing three from my library. I draw four good cards and am able to Freeze him to death with Turnabout to tap his critters.

Match Record: 3-2
Game Record: 8-7

Round 6: Nyles with 4-color Countertop, similar to the list Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa played at GP: Columbus
At this point, two 4-2 records will make top eight, and since Nyles got paired down to face me at 3-1-1, I am hoping that a win will give me good enough breakers to win a Tropical Island.
Game 1: He cracks two fetches in the first few turns to get a Tundra and a Tropical Island. I am nervous that he is about to play the dreaded enchantment, but instead plays a 2/3 Tarmogoyf. Goyf hits me for a bit, and when he tries to play a Counterbalance, I try to go off. He Forces my Reset, but I have a Force of my own and am able to win via Brain Freeze. He shows me the three Firespouts he was holding at the end of the game, but hey, Solidarity needs to get lucky to win this matchup.
Game 2: He plays turn one Top, and gets stuck at three lands for a while. I build up lands, but don't have enough gas to go off just yet. He plays CB eventually, and I faux go off at the cost of a High Tide to get all of the countermagic out of his hand to Force the enchantment. He plays another one next turn and says go. I Wipe Away at his next end step, but don't have enough gas to go off yet. I Wipe Away again next turn with the second one I was holding, and Wish for Repeal the following turn to bounce it again. Repeal is not countered the turn after that. As I type this, I am now realizing how horrible it was to just waste Wipe Away like that. I should have held this precious resource until the turn before going off, but I was very tired from the day of Magic to understand the possible consequences of my actions. Enough about that, back to the game. I have enough card-drawers at this point to combo off. He is only holding one Force of Will, so I am able to combo off with relative ease in response to the recast Counterbalance.

Match Record: 4-2
Game Record: 10-7

I ended up in ninth :frown:. I really liked the maindeck, replacing the last Flash of Insight with a fourth Peer Through Depths, and wouldn't change a thing about it if I were to go to another tournament in the near future. The sideboard Repeals were okay. I'm sure that there's something better against Zoo in mono-U Solidarity, but it did its job just fine. Pact of Negation is also okay as a counter for when you are going off, similar to Autumn's Veil, but seems very limited in its use and could probably be something else as well.

Congrats again for the your victories and for the great report...

I am going to make one suggestion: instead of 1 mindbreack trap and 2 pact of negation try to use 3 mind breack trap...

And i have a question: why only 2 fetchs?