[Deck] UW(x) Landstill

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I top 8ed at the Grid tournament in Manchester. Only 18 players but a solid player base.

I top 8ed with Geoff Smelski's list from the Syracuse 1k tourney.
-1 Tundra / +1 Academy Ruins
-1 SB Wrath / +1 SB Ajani

Here's my list:

// Lands
4 [AQ] Mishra's Factory (2)
3 [TE] Wasteland
4 [ON] Flooded Strand
2 [UNH] Island
2 [b] Tropical Island
4 [b] Tundra
3 [UNH] Plains
1 [b] Savannah

// Creatures
2 [PR] Eternal Dragon

// Spells
4 [FNM] Brainstorm
4 [AL] Force of Will
4 [FNM] Swords to Plowshares
4 [FNM] Counterspell
4 [OD] Standstill
3 [FD] Engineered Explosives
3 [REW] Wrath of God
3 [SC] Decree of Justice
2 [TE] Humility
2 [TSP] Krosan Grip
2 [FNM] Fact or Fiction

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [TSP] Krosan Grip
SB: 3 [JGC] Meddling Mage
SB: 3 [LRW] Ajani Goldmane
SB: 2 [DK] Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1 [ARE] Enlightened Tutor
SB: 2 [10E] Crucible of Worlds
SB: 3 [SHM] Runed Halo

Round 1:
Ray Meathooks: 0-2: I heard Hibernation Sliver is good. These games proved it to me. I realized now I boarded poorly.

Round 2:
Red Thresh: 1-1-1
Game 1: I lose to a scary goyf.
Game 2: I survive at 1 life after wasting his red source and he later shows the bolt.
Game 3: When time is called I have double decree + humility with nothing staring me down.

Round 3:
Trialbyfire: Dreadstill UGr: 2-0
Game 1: He played standstill and I proceeded to go broken with eternal dragon and double decree. I win with 2 life.
Game 2: I keep a 1 lander and proceed to force and swords two early goyfs and then drop crucible. I then proceed to draw all of my decrees and counterspells/forces. At one point I was at 1 facing down trinket mage with good board position. I swords his mage, he counters it, I decree (3) for enough to block and kill knowing he has trickbind, then animate factory and block. I win at 3 life.

Round 4:
My teammate DJ: Rgb Goblins: 2-0 Thanks teammate even though I did win in three.
Game 1: Goblins do what goblins do.
Game 2: I resolve humility and he has no outs.
Game 3: I draw 3 swords, 3 wraths, and double humility. I win in savage fashion.

Round 5:
Holiday: Tombstalker: 2-0
Game 1: I remember having a million land at the end of the game with humility on the board.
Game 2: I wastelanded him early and resolve Crucible. I drew a million cards off multiple standstills in succession.

Top 8:
Joe: Survival: 0-2. I have no answers to Survival.dec

Props:
A lot of friendly faces
Two top 8's for Team Awesome
Humility being Humility.
People not expecting Ajani
The Grid for being closer than Hadley
First time ever playing the Wrath of Gods I bought 3ish years ago.

Slops:
Trying to krosan grip survival of the fittest with no green source when the turn earlier I plaincycled and fetched a basic plains with savannah in deck.
Scrubbing in the top 8 again.

Congratulations to everyone on their finishes and here's to more legacy in CT in the future.

This is the best version of Landstill I've found. So optimized and fine tuned that it ran well even in the games/matches I lost. A very similar list won the 1k Syracuse tournament run by Geoff Smelski. I would recommend this deck in any meta.

Maybe I'll get quoted somewhere for saying this but counterbalance isn't that good. I never found a time where I wanted it except against countersliver (meathooks) because all their spells are 2. I'd also probably want to see it against aggro loam. When I used to run counterbalance, I would focus solely on getting counterbalance and resolving it without thinking about how to win the game first. It's just me. I'd rather run sweepers (wrath/ee) and fof.