R1 Jace Tibalt ❌ ✅ ✅
G1: I only kept 1 blue source so the pierce in hand rotted for a while. I got them low with Ensoul and case but couldn't finish it and couldn't protect or prevent Tibalt.
G2: on the play had a million 1 drops and had a huge warden quick pinging in damage with protection spells. I cracked a case on their end step with them at 8 swung in and had the shrapnel after they tapped out for a board wipe.
G3: a slower hand but more reactive with get lost and counterspells where I got TSed twice then taking my Ensoul and cryptic Coat (I put 1 in swapping for Red Case) they kept me off threats but I drew into them easy with the huge card draw of the deck. Resolving a drake forces them to push and I still get a card so I'm not down resources. I ended up with 1/1s swinging in while holding up rebuke countering a kalitas (ouch) and just kept pinging in until all they had was block with hall be at 1 life then epicure
R2 Niv to Light ✅ ✅
G1: I kept a hand with siren geardrake epicure with lands to cast and a rebuke. I chipped in damage and they played nothing until their T3 clarion that got rebuked them I dropped an ensoul forcing them to concede on their T4
G2: They kept a paradise druid where I had a similar hand to the previous game. Playing around rebuke they removed a few threats one for one but I kept drawing cards with the tokens being made. They eventually got to 6 lands with omnath playing around rebuke where I attempted to counter and they dovin's vetoed it. I played an ensoul at this stage with them at 8 and had a 2/2 epicure left from all the removal. I swung both forcing them to really block the darksteel leaving them at 6. 2nd main I cracked a map on epicure and revealed a shrapnel. They conceded after some time as they had no removal for the darksteel or the shrapnel.
R3 Phoenix ❌ ✅ ❌
G1: I honestly can't even remember what I had but I think he chipped 3 Phoenix in yard and got me from there around T4.
G2: deafening silence really messed him up and I was able to init copter to victory.
G3: I got silence again but instead of young Pyro he's on geralf from the new set when you cast your 2nd spell make a 2/2 zombie. He got a good deal of creatures here so he made some zombies. I had a darksteel but no inti for trample but he was at 13 at this point and I swung in after he had no blockers and I flashed in a containment priest for the next attack having a shrapnel in hand leaving him at 1. Didn't get many artifacts at all this game only siding out 4 but siding in 1.
