MTGO

First off, a number of the blue spells mentioned in the last update have been great for the deck in testing.

• Consider - The best true cantrip for the deck; 4x.
• Otherworldly Gaze - The card is even more versatile than I'd imagined. Early on it sets up land drops, …

Round 1: Walls Combo 0-2 Very boring games; I hate it when people drag on turns with loops.

Round 2: Rakdos Burn 2-1 Very good back and forth games.

Round 3: Jeskai Ephemerate 0-2 Another "waiting around" series of games. Finally quit in boredom.

Round 4: Red Deck Wins 2-1 …

Round 1: Rakdos Madness 2-1 Fun filled match with lots of back and forth.

Round 2: RDW 1-2 Close games. Game 2 I couldn't draw a burn spell to save my life when my opponent was within 3 points of lethal.

Round 3: Elves 2-1 Waited until my opponent played …

Round 1: Grixis Affinity 0-2 The hardest thing I struggle against is the improvise counterspell and Reckoner's Bargain

Round 2: Eldrazi Tron 2-1 Fangren Marauder and Weather the Storm are major problems for me to deal with. I won by a technicality (my opponent ran out of time).

Round 3: …

Round 1: 0-2 Walls Combo My deck struggles against combo. Oh well. Onto round 2.

Round 2: 1-2 Red Deck Wins Lost when I didn't draw the one mana I needed to close the game.

Round 3: 0-2 Green Sac Deck (?) I couldn't get around creatures that could come …

Round 1: Dimir Control 0-2 Not a fun round. Counterspells. Counterspells, everywhere.

Round 2: Azorius Toughness (?) 0-2 Not a fun round as well. Un-blockable damage is never great to be on the receiving end.

Round 3: Caw-Gates 2-0 Whoa boy. Dark Ritual came through in a big way. I …

There tends to be an issue of getting lands into the yard to trigger Slogurk. Magus of the Moon doesn't do much. Elvish Reclaimer and Seasoned Pyromancer can be used to trigger Slogurk, with differing goals. SPyro is used to reload late game, while Reclaimer can grab fetches, …

I have ran 5 tests in MTGO today.

I did not get to test it in Games 2 and 3 since the opponents conceded after Game 1 (which resulted in a victory in all 4 runs). This is pretty standard behaviour for Manaless Dredge: it is a difficult deck for …

I just took this up against a fairly strong deck and the opponent didn't understand why I kept milling myself in the lategame until I perma-locked the game with Nexus of Fate *list* :)

The late game of this deck is too strong

Updated list: -1 slobad -1 grapeshot +2 grinding station. Was previously relying too heavily on engineer and fiddlebender, but they are now redundancy rather than plan Az

12-21-21

2-0 vs esper stone forge. They FONed an Aether spellbomb to protect their Kaldra, but that just opened me up to combo. …

I ran the first test of this version (with Slobad, Saheeli, and Grapeshot) vs GW Hammertime. 2-0. "Fair" grapeshot was great at cleaning up their X/1s, and combo killed just as easily as thoracle would have. Never drew slobad, but opp didn't have much interaction anyway which is likely why …

2-0: BG Undying

2-1: Murktide

2-1: BGR Death's Shadow

0-2: 5c Elementals

2-0: Mill

Leyline of the Void SHUTS SHIT DOWN. When Dragon's Rage Channeler, Unholy Heat, and Murktide Regent lose their pop, Nocturnus takes over!

2-0: U Tron

2-0: Murktide

2-1: UR Control Wish

2-1: Mill

1-2: Elemental Horseshit

Evoke needs to go away. It, in itself, is too powerful, the OP cards, notwithstanding. I was getting REALLY good draws tonight.

Tournament practice room again, so take these with a grain of salt. Finished out 5 games including that first match vs humans. Final results:

2-0 vs humans -- see previous update. 1-2 vs Scute Swarm lands -- got pretty flooded, but variance happens and I'll take the L 2-1 vs …