I decided to take the advice of others who suggested that I try a more standard version of Grixis Death's Shadow. I went up to three maindeck Stubborn Denials and also added some maindeck copies of Liliana of the Veil. Unfortunately, I was careless and forgot to replace the Stubborn Denial that I took from my sideboard and moved to the maindeck, resulting in an incompletely sideboard.
Fortunately, the Magic rules have long since allowed incomplete sideboards. Back in the day, I could've gotten in trouble for an incomplete sideboard (you either had to have no sideboard or 15 cards in your sideboard).
This more standard list didn't do too well tonight.
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Temur Company (0-2) - This was a strange midrange deck in Temur colors that totally blindsided me. I got mana screwed in game 1 and got killed by him attacking with his big critters. In game 2, I foolishly took out my Fatal Pushes because I thoughy it was a mana ramp deck, but it turned out that all of his stuff was CMC 4 or less, so Fatal Pussh could've killed everything he had. I lost both games.
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Eldrazi Tron (0-2) - I got off to a good start until my opponent managed to get 10 mana on the battlefield to cast Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. This was an opponent I played with regularly, and he knew that Grixis Death's Shadow had a difficult time dealing with his big creatures pre-sideboard. I conceded after he got Ulamog out. In game 2, I got mana screwed and was at one land after casting 3 Serum Visions to dig through my library. He got Karn Liberated before I got my second land, and by that point, it was too late.
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Bant Eldrazi (2-1) - This was a more balanced game with a lot of back and forth action. I lost game 1 after my opponent used Path to Exile on my Death's Shadow and didn't get another creature to replace it. I won games 2 and 3 after sideboarding against his deck. Ceremonious Rejection and Disdainful Stroke do wonders against Eldrazi decks of all kinds.
