Round 1: Vs bant company 2-0 Win
Match 1 win: I was removing creatures one by one, I wiped the board via outburst and rebuilt advantage via gideon and ob.
Saved removal to protect kalitas from dromoka's command to gain creature advantage, and emblem for good token trades.
Sideboarded in:
2x Mentor
1x Planar outburst
1x Kalitas
Sideboard out:
1x Valorous stance
1x Seeker of the way
1x Ultimate price
1x Ruinous path
Not sure if I should've boarded in moonlight, but I don't think I had any good cards to board out after the initial 5.
Match 2 win: I stuck a turn 2 a seeker of the way, and used grasp of darkness to clear the threats out until turn 4, then I dropped a monestary mentor and built up a board he couldn't break through.2x gideon emblem and sorin +1 ended up killing the opponent.
Round 2: Vs 4c Rally 1-1-1 "Win"
Match 1: The opponent was stuck on 3 lands for a few turns, and I got them to 8 life or so, but they got the 4th land and stuck two big collected companies - zulaport + sifter followed up with a jace + sifter. Third coco hit zula and husk and I couldn't recover from there.
Sideboard in:
2x Hallowed Moonlight
2x Duress
3x Transgress the mind
2x Infinite obliteration
1X Tainted remedy
1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Sideboard out:
1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
2x Utter end
1x Valorous Stance
3x Ruinous path
1x Murderous cut
2x Stasis snare
1x Read the bones
Match 2: Turn 2 jace stuck, and I had boarded out the ruinous paths. I landed infinite obliteration on husk turn 3 but the game went on for 5 more turns and I was keeping the board fairly clear, but the opponent reached jace ult. They drew 3 lands after that and lost to land creatures with an emblem + secure the wastes.
Match 3: with 4 minutes left we decided whoever had the stronger board when turns was over would be the winner, we played what we could and i had a stronger board/hand state as of turn 4 (2x seeker of the way + read the bones) so he conceded to me.
I'm not sure about the sideboard for this match, I think I don't need the 2x duress, or I may need to change to 4x transgress instead. I should have probably kept in the removal and boarded out the seekers, since the opponent has so many 2/3s and they aren't good when playing vs reflector mage.
Round 3: Temur company 2-0 Win
Match 1: I was able to keep his board clear with removal spells + planeswalkers - the only creature that gave me trouble was thunderbreak regent when I had planeswalkers out. Secure the wastes eot opponent's turn + sorin emblem for the kill.
Sideboard in:
1x Kalitas
2x Monastery Mentor
1x Planar outburst
Sideboard out:
2x Utter end - removal's too slow
2x Seeker of the way - 2/2s lose to a host of 2/3s, 3/3s and 4/4s.
Match 2: I kept his board clear and landed a Monastery Mentor, removed other things until he dropped two thunderbreak reagents. Ruinous path managed to dodge both dispel and disdainful stroke, and I was able to kill him slowly with tokens + planeswalker value.
Round 4: Green/Red ramp 2-1 Lose
Round 1: turn 5 worldbreaker + turn 6 ulamog hitting my lands = dead
Sideboard in:
3x Transgress
2x Infinite obliteration
1x Dark petition
Sideboard out:
2x Utter end
1x ultimate price
1x Kalitas
1x Planar Outburst
1x Ob nixilis
Round 2: Infinite obliteration on worldbreaker, followed by a gideon, followed by an infinite obliteration on ulamog, they only had ugin and chandra as threats, and they couldn't stick them because of ruinous path. Win
Round 3: They played a sylvian advocate and I had no removal turn 2, turn 3 infinite obliteration naming worldbreaker, only 2 in their deck. They boarded out all their multiples and put in all singleton bombs. they ramped into 6 with explosive veggies turn 4 and started bashing me for 4. They resolved ugin and I was dead.
Round 5: jeskai black control 2-0 win
Match 1: I landed planeswalkers and he had too much creature removal and no planeswalker removal. Landed a secure the wastes on a turn when he tapped out to kill sorin, and gideon ulted for the kill.
Sideboard in:
2x duress
2x Transgress
Sideboard out:
1x Valorous stance
1x Planar outburst
2x Utter end
Match 2: Opponent went down to 5 and Duress + Transgress left opponent with nothing to contest planeswalkers.
Semifinals: Temur Company rematch 1-2 lost
Match 1: Continued the strategy to keep the board clear and attack with tokens + board wiping when needed. Thunderbreak regeant is still fairly problematic - it screws up planeswalkers pretty badly (makes ob nixilis a 5 mana destroy target creature).
Sideboard in:
1x Kalitas
2x Monastery Mentor
1x Planar outburst
Sideboard out:
2x Utter end - removal's too slow
2x Seeker of the way - 2/2s lose to a host of 2/3s, 3/3s and 4/4s.
Match 2: He had a good tempo curve - I kept a hand with 2 tap lands, and drew a third tap land turn 3, with no removal in hand. Had to use read the bones and lost to efficient creatures and a timely distainful stroke on gideon turn 5.
Match 3: The match was fairly evenly matched, he had a hand with little action and i kept a 3 planeswalker hand with 1 removal and 2 lands. I drew into more lands but he stroked 2 planeswalkers - i landed a kalitas and he landed a knuckleback turn 6. I played a gideon which got disdainful stroked and he played a thunderbreak on his turn. The next turn I used a dark petition to fetch a planar outburst with kalitas on the field, but I did that main phase 1 instead of main phase 2, and then moved to combat and lost the 3 mana, so I couldn't cast outburst. Died the next turn.
