Played in a local tournament last night. Finally broke my streak of Top 8 scrubouts, made it to the top 4 chop this time!

List was a little bit unusual:
1 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Petal
2 Daze
2 Thoughtseize
2 Cabal Therapy
4 Dark Ritual
4 Entomb
2 Reanimate
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Hapless Researcher
1 Careful Study
2 Children of Korlis
4 Shallow Grave
3 Goryo's Vengeance
1 Tendrils of Agony
4 Griselbrand
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
1 Marsh Flats
3 Underground Sea
1 Island
1 Swamp

// Sideboard
4 Show and Tell
2 Cabal Ritual
1 Lim-Dul's Vault
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Thoughtseize
3 Pithing Needle
2 Echoing Truth
1 Massacre

I wanted to try to increase the consistancy by upping the number of ins and outs to be more like traditional reanimator lists. Despite that, there were about 4 games where I kept a hand with cantrips and an out, but bricked on the cantrips and couldn't find an in for 5+ turns.
The reanimates were ok. There was one time I couldn't use it because I was at too low of a life total, but they were handy when going off. It allowed you to Entomb or pitch a Children (child?) and reanimate it with a mana floating, which helped because I cut the number of Chrome Moxes.
Cutting the Chrome Moxes wasn't a big deal. I couldn't find more IMSs once, but it was ok because I just killed him next turn.

I've been more and more unimpressed with Daze. It's good when everything is working right, but it's really bad against a ton of decks. I'm also really ambivalent about Careful Study effects. I was able to use a careful study to find a ponder which found an Entomb for the kill on like turn 7 one game, but they were never useful beyond that. So it feels like the deck wants more cantrip density, but Careful Study isn't consistantly anything but velocity. I may try to fit in Gitaxian Probe in this new shell.

Pithing Needle was an all-star again, I wouldn't leave home without 3. I was very impressed with the Show and Tell plan against UW control and prison decks. I played against MUD and was able to show him a cute 7/7 lifelinking demon. I did board in Show and Tells game 3 against Death and Taxes, but I think that was wrong. He has a ton of different cards that are bad for me (Mangara, Karakas, Revoker, Oblivion Ring) and most of their grave hate is slow like Rest in Peace.

Overall I think this experiment was promising in that it cut a lot of sacred cow cards like Chrome Moxen and was still able to go off thanks to the raw power of Children + Griselbrand, but still didn't quite feel right. I felt like I got flooded pretty often and just couldn't find the cards I needed. Definitely want to go back having an Intuition main as a 5th Entomb.