Back from summer and with a new Tropical Island that made allmost all my TES deck pimp or at least not white border (wb sucks...) I decided to play in my first after summer event the deck. We would gonna play 5 rounds and get some cash for the top 3.

Lets see how the weather is gonna be today, but I think a big storm is rising!

SO I sleved in this list:

BUSSINES:


ARTIFACT MANA:


RITUAL MANA:


CANTRIPS:


DISCARD:


LANDS:


SIDEBOARD:


From the new stock list I decided to play a massacre over pyroblast cause usualy there is not a lot of meddling mages and there is always 1 taxes at least. So massacre seems fine in that spot.

R1 Burn
He puts his deck out of the box, its a chandra sleeves deck in a chain lightning box and he showed me the bottom card being a mountain. So 100% burn.

My 1st hand was:
2 chrome
2 duress
1 delta
1 usea
1 petal

thats a mull vs burn and most any deck

my 2dn hand:
2 rof
1 led
1 dark ritual
2 burning

This hand has no IMS so i cant play I have to mull again :(

My 3rd hand:
1 led
1 petal
1 rof
1 brainstorm
1 emtpy

Thats a decent 5 card hand that can make a bunch of goblins, I can get stuck on lands but dosnt get eny better.


He gets me 11 when my hand advances to this on turn 3:
2 infernal
1 petal
2 rof
1 dark ritual
with 2 lands in play (I shufled the empty away)


I play a volcanic and ponder a Petal and from there dark ritual, infernal getting a third rof, play all 3 rof and infernal the empty for 18 goblins. I had a therapy on grave and discarted his price of progress in his turn he brings me to 5. and has flame rift in hand. I attack with 16/17 goblins. putting him to 4 lifes so if he draws burn we get a draw at least cause he has to play the flame rift.

up to g2
-3 duress
+2 decay
+1 infernal tutor

I keep de ok 7 seven but he lands a pirostatic pilar t2. Have no way to get rid of it and I put a brainstorm, led, gitaxian, empty for 8 goiblins going to 12 lives in the proces. He casts a flame rift and 2 lava spike plus fireblast and im dead.


Now I have seen that he plays more or less old school burn so I side out from the basic list:
-trompical
-duress
+void snare
+infernal tutor.
I get turn 2 ten tokens and they ride me 2 turns latter to the win.

So 1-0 So hard to play burn, easy matchup but really hot.

After the game I asked if he dosnt play eidolon and he didnt even know the card :(

Round 2 Death and taxes
I know what im facing because htis guy always plays taxes. My hand is:
therapy
tropical
germstone
2 led
1 infernal
1 rof

Really broken hand!!!

I therapy 2 thalia away with the gemstone and his other cards are:
sfm
2 plains
canopy
wasteland

he wastelands me and I draw a fetch, play the fetch and pass, he plays plains and passes and i play the trop, led, led into infernal nauseam and GG.

side like so:
-3 duress
-2 ponder
+3 decay
+1 seize
+1 infernal

G2 he mulls and starts pains go. My hand is: Fetch, volcanic, 2 dark ritual, led, probe, ponder, draw a decay. I play a gitaxian seeing:
2 serra
1 wasteland
1 port
1 englihten tutor

So now he can go for canonist of whatever turn 2. From the gitaxian I draw a mox. I play the volcanic and a ponder seeing land, infernal and ritual. I was about to pass then realices decay is also black. Drew the infernal, mox with decay and cast 2 dark rituals from there led infernal nauseam with one red mana floeating. I go down to 1 life cause I revealed empty. I revealed no artifact mana just a dark ritual, 3 rof, one burning, 2 infernal. I know he can go into ratched but I dont care. I just make double rof and 24 goblins and he tutors for rathed. On my turn I draw a led and just make dark ritual, infernal a second rof and burning for pif the rest ist dust... lilke my opponent.

Round 3 against shardless bug.
I play duress get rid of his hymn and he drops DRS. His hand does almost nothing.I get turn 3, 12 tokens letting 2 leds on top of a brainstorm and discard with therapy him a shardless. He draws and drops 2 more deathrites. Now im not in good position. I atack letting him to 14. I dont atack again and I draw a burning while holding both leds in hand. Get infernal. He is draining me and im facing his 3 deathrite. Idk when I cast infernal he taped all 3 deathrites and drained me 6 lifes. Theat led me atack him for some more. He drops a goyf and he is hellbend. I draw a therapy, cast on his nothing hand, drop both leds, infenal a a burnin cracking the leds and burning for tendrills draining him to dead even with his deathrite.

I sided 0 cards, my opp is not so good so he will leave the decays and so he can destroy my pithings.

I mull and keep a hand of mox, 3 lands, probe and burning. A not really good hand but being mulligan vs a thogseize deck is fine.
He seizes my burning. i draw a land and I probe, draw a land, next turn I draw another probe, and another land. 3 draws leatter i had drawn a petal and 2 more lands (that makes 7 in total) and facing lethal from 2 shardless (one hitting visions), 1 chaman, a strix plus 2 hymns. Here I made a missplay that in my last turn of life, I had therapy in hand and passes turn. Without casting it cause it was no sense, but I should have just to gather infromation.

G3 I see his hand with gitaxian of nothing relevant, a shardless and a rathed. With the probe I draw empty. My hands is nuts now. I cast land ritual therapy the rathed, petal rof and make 12 tokens. I can flashback the therapy but im to fast he has to topdeck a cantrip on his next turn or a charm on his second turn. He draws and I see that he plays the lands he draws, so no reason to therapy. Atack and he draws and dosnt hit the charm. GG

Round 4 Against miracles vs one of the 2 best miracles players in Spain.
I didnt take any notes, But I know I won game 1 from discarting his balance while he has top and I ad nauseamed the turn after he senseied me and he had no counter on top.

Side:
-4 ponder
-1 empty
-1 mox

+2 pithing
+3 decay
+1 tendrills

Game 2 I duress him discarting a brainstorm, he had:
2 reb
1 braisntorm
1 fow
1 balance
2 island

Here im not sure if brainstorm was best choice but so I got him of advancing and he could not play the balance cause holding blue card and the pyros.

I have tendrills, 2 rof, infernal, a petal, a therapy, duress, dark ritual. I have a gemstone and a volcanic in play. I play the duress and discard fow, seeing a vendilion. I play 2 rite of flames, petal and dark ritual, now therapy to be hellbent. he clickes me in response and now he is at 18 lives with 7 storm, he takes the infernal away and I draw a sad sad land. Any spell would have been the lethal 9th spell. But I let him at 2 lives and He draws top then land and jace. He is at 1 live and i never manage to get a infernal or burning to grapeshot him away.

I changed the tendrills for grapeshot cause it gets rid of snapcaster and vendilion, and is also a nicee storm card to have.


G3 I duress him and he has 2 terminus staticaster. He draws sensei and I had pithing ready he changes and pases, next turn he plays balance, and I gamble. on his 1 fetch, 1 unknown card in hand and the balance trigger. I play petal, he shows a jace, I play led, lets it resolve. I play infernal, he lets it resolve making m gamble on getting nauseam if he had draw a pierce, because empty is pierce proof but gets taticastered. So I just yolo on nauseam, he had a braisntorm but dosnt find a fow to put on top. So I just neauseam him going to 4 lifes, then decay the balance and he scoopes.


Round 5 vs reanimator

I start and play therapy naming entomb. his hand was:
fow
daze
ponder
verdant
reanimate
ashen rider
brainstorm

He draws and discard a griselbrand, Thats bad... I draw a duress and play it with mana up for the daze, he forces. Next turn he reanimates the griselbrand and I try to combo out he draws card and he has a fow so its over.

Sided this:
+2 pithing
+2 xantid
+1 seize
+1 infernal (idk if this is good to side in)

-1 empty
-2 ponder
-3 therapy

I play a turn 1 xantid he dosnt force, he keep a decent but greedy hand:
1 ponder
1 petal
2 entomb
1 exume
1 reanimate
1 fow
and drew a third entomb for his turn. pondered shuffled and drew a random card. Still no land.

I atacked with xantid and caster the random therapy hitting all 4 entombs. 1-2 turn latter i infernaled casted nauseam and he scooped.

On the draw I sideboarded diferent because I had to be may be slower but make that he cant combo me.

+2 xantid
+2 pithing
+1 seize
+1 infernal

-1 empty
-4 ponder
-1 therapy

I have to get rid of his combo better I think, My opp made some missplays wich alowed me to win an unwinaable game.

He starts land ponder and petal and passes.
I play petal land duress. seeing, griselbrand, ashen rider, exume, reanimate and daze. Discard the reanimate and pass. He draws a carefull and discard both fattys. and got no land but another reanimate for griselbrand. after that he passes the turn. I draw a pithing... now, littl late no? But cast it, He dosnt respond drawing so I name griselbrand and thougt oh may be he has a plan. I have 2 lands now and a lot of mana of spells. He reanimates on his turn the ashen after atacking me to 10 lives, and think I oh now he blows up my pithing and im dead. He blows up a ladn. I rip of the nauseam from the top like a boss play both dark ritual and both leds from my hand and him beeeing at 9 lifes from the reanimates. Im at 10 but is ok cause i have 6 mana from the 2 leds and no 4 cost cards in deck. So I just make 12 spells and grapeshot him to dead like a boss!!!!!!



Last round I should have win game 3 but also he had really good draws g1 so thats even. If he dosnt rip the grisel from the top I would have just won g1. Shitt happens and karmawas nice to me.

I liked the 2 pithing a lot, against miracles it was really good and safe to know i had them and vs griselbrand is also a great addition even if it comes late.
I like to play 3 decays gives me a safety feeling vs counterbalance and it really hurts me to only play 2 and dont get to them when they land a balance.


So thanks for reading and enjoy next time.


Sorry for all the bad English but Im not native and have no program that checks for grammar :(