2015/04/06:


Match 1: Punishing Jund (0-2)
Game 1: Kept hand on the draw with Crop Rotation+Exploration+5 lands. Opponent Thoughtseizes removing Crop Rotation, then Abrupt Decays my turn 1 Exploration. Deathrite Shaman eats my everything and eventually (though slowly lose). Likely failed to tutor correctly in the match. Again, Punishing Fire was unable to go online.
Game 2: +4 Dark Confidant, +1 Zuran Orb, +1 Abrupt Decay, -1 Worm Harvest, -1 Intuition, -1 Karakas, -1 Smokestack, -1 Sylvan Library, -1 something else. We play the slow game when I have 2 Maze of Iths and recurring Ensnaring Bridge/EE. I punt the game in the end when I play a Dark Depths instead of a Thespian's Stage copying a basic Forest as he plays a Wasteland from his hand and beats down with a Deathrite Shaman.


Match 2: BUG Delver (1-0)
Game 1: I put him in the sleeper hold over an agonizingly long period of time. His Tombstalker, Delver, and Tarmogoyf face Ensnaring Bridges and Engineered Explosives. I'm stable at 10 life while he's around 20. Eventually, 40 minutes later, he dies to Worm Harvest beats.


Match 3: ANT
Game 1: I lose.
Game 2: +2 Ethersworn Canonist, +4 Sphere of Resistance, +2 Chalice, -1 Worm Harvest, -1 Intuition, -1 Ensnaring Bridge, -1 Karakas, -1 Smokestack, -2 Maze of Ith. Sideboarding mistake: should've brought in Zuran Orb and Containment Priest in place of the third Maze of Ith and something else. 2 Spheres and a Canonist beat down for 7 turns.
Game 3: Same boarding with the same mistake. I lose after not enough spheres in play and a Chain of Vapor hits the lone Canonist.


Thoughts: Deathrite Shaman is brutal for this build of lands. Two Punishing Fires are not enough for this meta. Likewise, since my shop only has a single Miracles player, the Smokestack isn't that necessary. Worm Harvest is amazing.