I ended up going 3-3 in the SCG IQ today (1-12-19). The only thing I changed in the list was adding the 2nd Hallowed Fountain and the 4th Seachrome Coast. Overall I faced a much high level of play and competitiveness from well tuned decks and more skilled players than the FNM modern event last night. I felt like I was keeping up pretty well and was in 16th place after the 5th round (out of over 50 players). I'm still pretty happy with the list, but I definitely learned some things and may change my list slightly. I seemed to be siding out one or more curious obsession frequently (although I drew it only twice during all 6 games) and didn't get to see it shine. Overall the list seemed to be weak against humans and mono-U tron and I always felt like I was behind.
Counting both days, the list is 19:11 for win:loss ratio for a 63.3% win percentage.
Brief recap below:
2-1 vs 8-rack
W1 (draw),
L2 (play),
W3 (draw) Drew all three Mutavaults which helped me close out the game and protected me from the discard effects.
SB: +Echoing truth, Disenchant, Ceremonious rejection, spell pierce, negate
0-2 vs 5-c Humans
L1 (draw): had turn 1 vial and decent draws, but I just got beat on a board that was bigger and wider than mine
L2 (play): mulled to 6 and kept a hand with Aether Vial and two brown sources. Didn't draw another colored source until turn 4. I also made a critical blocking mistake and lost two defending lords.
SB: +Gut shot, echoing truth, worship
1-2 vs Hardened scales affinity
L1 (play): had a decent starting hand, but he got a Walking ballista in play with two arcbound ravagers with Hardened scales out and hit me for 20 in one turn.
W2 (play): disenchanted his turn 1 hardened scales, and raced him from there
L3 (draw): He had a very fast start and got a turn 3 win hitting for 21 damage.
SB: + gut shot, disenchant, ceremonious rejection, worship, echoing truth
- 2x phantasmal image, -3x curious obsession
CRITICALLY, I forgot to side in my stony silence which I think would have been useful here.
2-0 vs Jund
W1 (draw): I pathed his first dark confidant and copied his second one with phantasmal image. Ended up racing him and tapped his raging ravine with a flashed in nebelgast herald and swung back for the win.
W2: (draw): countered 2 anger of the gods (one by sacing selfless spirit one by sacing mausoleum wanderer) and comfortably won from there.
SB + spell pierce, negate, worship
- aether vial, 2 curious obsession
2-1 vs Dredge
L1 (play): He had a nuts hand and won by turn 3 after dredging 3 creeping chill
W2 (play): assembled a decent board and countered a key conflagrate with spell queller. When he tried to kill the spell queller, I was able to flash in rattlechains and protect him and won in attacking with 4 fliers.
W3 (draw): he mulled to four and I tempoed him out fairly easily.
SB: +relic of progenitus, Rest in Peace, remorseful cleric, echoing truth, worship, spell pierce
- 2x phantasmal image, -3x curious obsession, -1x aether vial (?)
0-2 vs mono-blue tron
L1 (draw): I mulled to 6, but managed to get a board going and pathed his wurmcoil engine and I got him down to 10 life but then he cast mind slaver and wrecked my board. He got a big walking ballista picking off the rest of my board and killing me from there
L2 (play): got him to 4 life but then he assembled tron and cast platinum angel. He started to accumulate a board with Karn, scion of Urza and some other non-fliers. He attacked with platinum angel and I flashed in a rattlechains and killed his angel with rattlechains and a spell queller. However, the next turn he assembled a hard lock with mindslaver by controlling my turn for the rest of the game.
SB: +ceremonious rejection, echoing truth, negate, deprive, spell pierce
-- 2x phantasmal image, -3x curious obsession
