G4. Win vs. R35 4c Walkers
Keep a 4 lander that's a little slower than I'd like, but we go initiate into garrison with a lightning to clear the path, so seems good enough. Early turns go initiate->oath of nissa->garrison->little lily (+to kill initiate). This and the 4 colors already down has got me a little worried, because although I can probably take lily out, it's going to take a little bit, and I suspect their late game is going to go way over the top of what I'm doing. I poke lily with garrison and make a couple of tokens (he's at 15 now). Cartouche of solidarity on one of the tokens. He's got an oath of chandra for garrison (rawr) and debuffs my 2/2 to add a turn to my lily clock. I swing to put her at 1 and add honored crop captain to my board. That gets an oblivion strike and lily + takes out my cartouche token. I get her off the board next turn and add militia captain. He's got a greenwarden though to get lily back in hand. I top a harvester, and misplay a bit since I should've dropped it first main for the energy and just taken greenwarden with lightning. Instead I swing with the tokens, he blocks the 1/1 and I lightning (he exiles for oblivion strike), dropping harvester 2nd main and taking him to 12. He passes back despite lots of cards (2 are lily which would be suicide, and oblivion strike, which kinda seems like it would've been good enough). I've got angelic destiny, but with oblivion strike in his hand, and just shy of lethal I just crew up and swing with the harvester/token taking him to 7. That draws the languish next turn, along with baby lily, but I've still got a pilot in hand (glory chaser), so harvester gets destiny for lethal.

G5. Win vs. R37 Golgari Ramp
He's on the play, but doesn't do anything until a T4 explosive vegetation. Meanwhile I go initiate->harvester->garrison (after his vegetation), so he's at 11. The Gitrog Monster comes down but he concedes when I angelic destiny garrison and crew up harvester (actually misplayed that - on initiate it would've been lethal in the air, as it was it put him to 1, but same difference).

G6. Loss vs. R35 Grixis control
T3 lily is such a pain. Play goes inciter->land->initiate (pushed after haste)->lily (gnoshing on inciter)->garrison->harnessed lightning->honored-crop captain->Titi. I probably should've declared his titi in stone to get through for 1, but I cartouche and lightning instead to get some power on the board, since I've also got an injury. He +'s to shrink captain and passes back. I think I probably should've injuried now to get her off the board, but I've hit land 4 and want to gideon (never mind that I've only got 1W), so I swing to get littly off imminent ultimate and settle for harvester 2nd main instead. He's on up to Flamecaller though, so captain gets shrunk and away goes my board. I whiff on my next draw and have to pass back, but hit white on the next and harvester can still eliminate chandra, so I try to stick gideon, but opponent breaks my concentration and that effectively ends it, as flamecaller tokens and later torrential gearhulk wrap me up.

G7. Win vs. R35 Dimir…vehicles?
Get myself a little over-exicted about T1 inciter, T2 honored crop captain, and miss that everything else in my hand is 3. Turns out to be good enough even though I miss T3 (drew a tap). We go inciter->heart of kiran->crop captain->land->land to put him to 12 and get me up to 3 lands, and now I've got insult, putting him to 2 and drawing the concession.

G4. Loss vs. R35 4c Superfriends
I go no-land, no black 2 land into a decent 6 with a healer and some removal. Early turns go healer (pushed)->vastwood seer. I've got a murder and a grasp in hand, but decide maybe I've been too loose with my removal in this deck so I let her plink away for a couple of turns. He drops ob-nixilis on 5, so I decide to murder Nissa (don't want her to flip as I focus on getting to Ob). I go envoy (oath of lily'd), masterwork (no creatures, and draws creeping mold!), and get cliffhaven off the top just in time for him to suicide ob for an emblem. I get to land 6 so I can drop angel of renewal, but he's got blessed alliance for cliffhaven and again the following turn for angel of renewal and the emblem holds up with a hand from gideon ally and little lily.

G5. Win vs. R37 Azorius Spirits
Wahoo! Of course this is the plan, how could it not be the plan, it's UNSTOPPABLE! Early turns go Illuminator->healer->bishop->murder->bishop->cliffhaven. Now we're staring at each other for a turn or so with him putting down a topplegeist for a couple of clues and a swing, and me putting down a procession. I've got gideon in hand along with never and murder (just to give you an idea of where my head's at). I top another healer and plunk it down along with abbey and that's enough to force the action a bit, putting him to 12. Avacyn comes down at my end step. I go for murder at his attack, but he's got long road home for it (of course he does!). I try the never when I untap, but he's got an essence flux for that and I decide 1 blue is going to have to be good enough - plopping gideon down and with double ally token nugging him to 4 (with triggers for days!). That draws the concession since I'm well out of lethal range and he can't kill gideon without swinging with his side, but gideon or the swingback is super lethal the following turn.

G6. Loss vs. R34 4c Superfriends
He drops eight (8!) walkers in the course of the game, largely powered by fevered visions and protected by a combination of walker abilities and a pair of languishes. That same visions gets me to enough critters and never so I do manage to kill off 4 of them, and delay the demise for awhile (I end up seeing 28 cards) but two eventually ultimate - little lily and kiora which on paper is a killer combo. I have the pleasure of assuring you that it is as good as advertised, you should definitely try to do it as often as possible.

G7. Win vs. R38 mono-black…zombies?
Looks like a game of magic at the start, going T1 wanderer->land->cryptbreaker->healer->grasp of darkness->emissary->dark salvation (for 0)->cliffhaven->push (post attacks after I eat cryptbreaker)->hero of goma fade. He sticks at 2 land though till we're 16 cards deep and conceeds to a board of hero, envoy, bloodbond with a full hand of cards. The AI sorts that out and has land + murder for bloodbond on the next turn, but it's too late. Kinda **** luck for him, still counts!

G4. Win vs. R38 dimir control
Kinduv an odd game, he's hitting his land drops for the most part, and I'm not off to a bonkers start dawdling at land 2 for a turn without a second play, just plinking away while he casts 3 telling times. He concedes after tapping the T2 gust walker once with grip of the roil, and then later murdering it (while trophy mage continues getting in) and dispersing a castigator. I get docent down and the AI kills that with ob nixilis (but trophy mage finishes ob off). Torrential gearhulk recurs disperse to bounce a harvester, but I've got a disperse of my own and lethal on board.

G5. Win vs. R40 orzhov tokens
So very sweet. Early turns go castigator->anointer->reflector->land->gust walker->double anointer. At this point I've got deep fiend, and I'm not nuts about main phasing it without a great follow up, but I figure this will get him to 7, with 3 in the air next turn and a big body so we go with that. He's got a liliana's mastery on his turn which brings him back to 11 and gives him some real nice blocks, but I top open into wonder with just enough mana to get the ground through and gustwalker exerts for exactsies.

G6. Win vs. R36 5c control
Crashed post-game so I don't have the precise plays. Effectively though he's dropping tap lands and powering up pyramid of the pantheon while gustwalker and harvester are chipping away. He *just* about gets there with pyramid, but there's a disperse in hand before he can untap with it. Oath of liliana forces me to drop a non-reflecting reflector mage to continue piloting. He's got removal for the mage, but we let that go and drop a river marshall to carry on piloting. Swing with harvester and him at 9 draws an anguished unmaking, but that gets the queller, putting him to 6. He's got ajani to exile the queller during his turn and make a token off oath, and uses unmaking on the harvester putting him to 3. River marshall taps the zombie and puts him directly on zero.

G7. Win vs. R36 orzhov tokens
Early plays goes cat->river marshall->land->cartouche->cat->declaration in stone (crack clue)->kytheon (crack clue)->separatist void mage. He redrops kytheon along with a cryptbreaker and he's at 7. I'm just short on mana for open into wonder to get the team through, but I use it on the void mage and river marshall putting him to 1 and trading the token for cryptbreaker. He's got Yahenni's expertise the following turn wiping my board and putting down little lily. I've been holding though, so harvester and gust walker go down. He can't find an answer, lily + on the gustwalker and I oblige, attacking and exerting to put him directly to zero.

G4. Win vs. R40 grixis reanimator
Early turns go advocate->oath of jace->land->pieces of the puzzle->Chandra, Torch. Nothing for him on T5 and I hit my land with revenge in hand so + for mana and get in for 10, putting him to 4. He's got Yahenni's expertise with a little jace to block, but I've got harnessed lightning to clear the path (or chandra, but lightning is what got used).

G5. Loss vs. R36 RDW
Nightmare matchup on the draw as opponent goes flameblade adept->infectious bloodlust->thopter engineer before we are able to play anything. Harnessed lightning goes on the engineer pre-attack to prevent the thopter from attacking, but in retrospect probably should've either done the thopter or the adept (probably adept). On my T3 I drop vastwood seer to keep the land coming since I can't manage blocks this turn. He's got a mage-ring bully and a second infectious bloodlust on his turn, so Nissa chumps that and we go to 10. T4 we have advocate and terrain elemental, but a fiery temper first main on advocate pumps bully and prevents blocking the adept again so we're chumping bully again. I have blocks with lumbering falls on the next turn to get another draw step (veggy/kiora/pair of roils in hand) but can't find a solution (pretty sure there isn't one in the deck tbh - basically if I'd topped heaven at 5.

G6. Loss vs. R39 mono black aggro
Blech. Gifted aetherborn->Yahenni while I'm playing out taplands on the draw. Harnessed lightning on Yahenni at his T4 attack draws supernatural stamina with siphoner second main. I drop Mina and lands 4, 5, but he's got grasp for her first main and gets in again putting me to 5 (some help from sunscorched deserts along the way). Harvester comes down second main. I've got roil + EW which buys me a turn if he doesn't have a pilot, but he does, dropping bone-picker first main to pilot up copter, and I give him a hand with stevens, blocking yahenni and aetherborn.

G7. Loss vs. R36 Gruul NRG
Fun, hard fought loss, where I start just a little too slow and it just wasn't quite good enough. Early turns go brawler (lightning)->tracker->lightning->land->hydra->roil (no bear)->brawler (16-20)->Nissa, Vital Force + land. He's got a lightning for my animated forest, and elemental chumps hydra and drops a prowling serpopod. No land drop from me but terrain elemental and rec sage go down and I animate another forest. He swings in with the team and terrain trades for brawler, forest eats serpopod, and sage chumps hydra while he drops another brawler. Land off the top nets me a token, animate forest, and leave up mana for lumbering falls. He's got Verdurous Gearhulk on his turn, making a 6/6 trample, a 4/3 brawler, and a 5/4 hydra and swings with brawler and hydra. I activate falls and trade my board for his two creatures. I top a pilgrimage, so we put out a board of 5/5 and a pair of 2/2's. First main he's got a Rishkar's expertise drawing 6 and playing out a new hydra which probably decides the game. He swings in and trades gearhulk for my forest. I top an EW to put me to 4 elemental bears, animate a mountain and swing, no blocks, 15-16 my favor. No swing from him. He plays out skysovereign, pinging Nissa for 3, putting her back down to 1 along with a greenbelt rampager. Since plan-nissa looks short lived, I use her to double tap a land to get omnath on the board, swinging with two bears. Initially he goes to block but then sees where I'm going with that and opts to let them through. He's got vastwood seer (flipping immediately) and tokening, glorybringer, and a long tusk cub and swings in the air. Both target omnath to remove him (pinging his nissa off the board on his way out), glorybringer destroying Nissa and Skysovereign going to the face. I find roil # 2 and a gaea's revenge that I can't cast on the next two draws, and that won't be good enough.

G4. Loss vs. R34 Temur turbo mill
One of those games where if you know the matchup you keep a different hand. I've got blisterpod, splinters, push, good land, and from beyond which I'm pretty happy with. No plays on my turn 2 or 3 though as he drops fevered visions and does some cycling. From beyond gets censored (I probably should've just run out blisterpod 2 here, but with visions filling up my hand I wanted to use the mana efficiently. He finds his tutelage next turn with cathartic reunion and the race is on as I'm not actually sure he was running anything to interact (just draw and tutelage). I drop that blisterpod and a thrall from the top. Following turn I gearhulk with no target, and on the final turn manage to get him to 1 with an assist from quagmire, but he's able to mill out the last 15 cards of my library pretty easily.

G5. Win vs. R40 RDW
That's how a deck's supposed to play! He's on the draw, but we get going right out of the gate, with glory chaser->blisterpod, leaving push up. He swings in, and has a titans strength post-block, but that's what push is for. He's got a flameblade adept second main and on my turn I've got a visionary. Opponent drops an ahn-crop crasher, exerting to keep the visionary from blocking and swinging with the adept. I chump the crasher with blisterpod and push post-combat. On my turn I have a thrall, but he's essentially out of gas, as he twin-bolts my visionary (both pings) and concedes with me still at 18. I play it out and it takes a few turns from there, but the AI eventually has to trade for thrall and by the time he finds anything else of note I've got a noxious gearhulk for it.

G6. Loss vs. R40 orzhov tokens
What fun decks (his and mowie's). I have a little trouble finding colors and end up with a slow 6, but early turns go copter->land->weaponcraft enthusiast (push on copter from me)->from beyond->abbey +master trinketeer->blisterpod+visionary+bone splinters (off pod, on trinketeer).->resourceful return + trinketeer->never (on trinketeer). He resourceful returns on his trinketeer again, but goes with a 2nd abbey + visionary augmenter. I untap with enough pods and land to ulamog, or I could wait for trinketeer to come back and ulamog later and just go with oblivion sower here. I decide ulamog, and I probably should've exiled both abbey's just to relieve the pressure from his creature count, but I took augmenter and 1 abbey. His turn is a wild plot twist though as he's got marionette master as a 4/6 and 3 servos on board, me at 14 along with 42 cards in his library. I decide I'm not probably going to be able to turtle it out to find an answer for marionette with abbey sitting over to the side and I can deck him if I can survive one turn (even if he can manage another artifact, I can get to 5 creatures to attack/sac to abbey before damage). That and I've always wanted to ulamog->sower. Swing with ulamog to put him to 22 cards, he throws all of the servos in front to ping me for 12. Oblivion sower comes down, netting 6 more land and putting him to 18. Sac from beyond for abom, play it out and drop a visionary off forest+scion for sac and a couple of draws. He's got another augmenter, though, and pushes his own token to ping me for lethal.

G7. Win vs. R32 4c NRG
Scion aggro is the new meta. Early turns go blisterpod->land->lightning on pod at attack, thrall->land->push on thrall at attack, scion summoner->whirler virtuoso. Here I drop rot shambler (mvp!), blisterpod, and cast bone splinters, saccing the pod. He makes a thopter before going to the gy, and then we swing and he trades for a scion, growing rot shambler again. Nothing from him on the following turn, so I get a free swing with the side. The following turn he has a 6/6 woodland wanderer, but it still dies to sac+push, and the team swings in to put him right on 0.

G4. Win vs. R32 Golgari Sac
Starts off a little slow, with early turns going blisterpod->land->altar's reap->land->altar's reap->Saheeli->Seed Guardian->P&K. A swing from seed guardian gets chumped by a thopter and a second seed guardian comes down. I've got a chief on my turn and clone P&K for another pair of thopters. No swing from him, and an eldritch evolution gets rebuked leaving him with a 2/2 token and a seed guardian. I improvise in a thopterist and pass back. He's just got a smothering abomb, but hangs back. I swing with 2 thopters, and he blocks one with seed guardian and lets the other through, which along with Saheeli pings puts him at 14. P&K sacs another thopter to take out the weakened guardian and I pass back. He sacs the 2/2, and drops a foul emissary finding primal druid which also comes down. At his endstep though, I've got harnessed lightning for the abomb and a flux for P&K to make another pair of thopters giving me lethal with thopters + pings.

G5. Win vs. R40 mono-green ramp
Slowish, but quick once it's moving. Early turns go druid of the cowl->harvester->vastwood seer->whirler rogue->verdurous gearhulk (7/7 trample + 1 on nissa). Looks bad right? That's an awful lot of power on the board for T4. But no, we've got a chief so he's going to 9 (with us up to 23). He promptly conceeds, and he was super right but he misses throne 2nd main and tapping whirler to put him to 4.

G6. Loss vs. R38 Superfriends
This one may've been on my keep - first mulligan with 3 mountains (but only thopterist needing U). Pia, throne, and harnessed lightning otherwise which seemed OK. I hold up lighting at 2, but nothing comes so pia goes down on 3. She gets an oath of chandra. On my turn thopter swing and throne. He's got an oath of liliana that sacs my thopter. I top a blue, and it's also land 5, so down goes thopterist. What no one expected was he's got a conclave naturalist(?!) which takes out throne. I swing with the thopters and top a flux, so I pass back. He swings with naturalist, no block, and then drops little lily and deadcap cultivator (also makes a zombie). 1 thopter down. At his end step though, I lightning the cultivator and flux the thopterist. Saheeli off the top will do nicely, and she goes down cloning thopterist and we swing with the side at lily (should've sent 1 of the thopters to the face here, math is hard...whatever. He blocks the for-realsy thopterist with his zombie, but lily goes down and I've got 5 thopters and Saheeli Vs. naturalist and the oaths. That's the high point though. Next turn I chump naturalist, but he's got ob nixilis 2nd main which triggers chandra's oath to kill saheeli along with siphoner (and a zombie from oath). I find a 2nd blue for a whirler rogue that I've drawn, so he goes down and I swing at ob with the remaining thopters, but just shy of killing him. He's got Vital Force first main but thinks better about animating and swinging, since he's got mana up to recur lily as well. I trade whirler for siphoner (thopter assist) but recurring lily to kill another thopter is exactly what happens. The swing along with oath puts me to 6, so even though I could kill off nissa and ob with my remaining thopters, it won't do any good, so I swing to the face and drop my island to empty the hand as a white flag.

G7. Win vs. R34 Simic goodstuff
Early plays go illuminator->land-> Vastwood seer (lightning on illuminator)->thopter engineer. He's got a tracker land next, but I go ahead and thopterist at 4 since I have harvester+lightning and land 5 in hand. He's just got another land and sacs a clue leaving up UGG. I go ahead and play into it, so harvester/crew and lightning happens, all resolving putting him to 11 and trading thopterist for nissa. I guess he was holding up pulse, because that's what he does at my end step bringing him back up to 17 and recurring nissa. She comes back down on his turn, but that's all he's got, and my aerial assault continues with a whirler rogue putting him to 9. He finds a rec sage off the top for harvester, but I do one better with chief to give me lethal in the air.

G4. Loss vs. R40 RDW
I debate long and hard, but keep a 4 land hand with 3 of each color, dec stone, scatter, and blessed alliance. I don't think that's good enough though. I realize I'm in loads of trouble when adept comes down, followed by aether chaser. I dec stone the chaser (maybe blessed alliance at the attack would've been better? - I really didn't want him making a token for some reason). He's got thriving grubs on his turn and I have declaration remorse. I top a rattle chains, and hold up scatter, but I'm really too far behind on board to be playing that game. He sacs the clue and attacks and I rattle chains at his end step (maybe I should've traded for grubs here? Probably). I swing and hold up alliance and scatter. He runs Kari out to clear the way and I decide she's worse than the adept I'm going to get with alliance. He swings again making grubs 4/3 and casting invigorated rampage to put me to 5 (ow). I drop always watching to swing and then be able to trade, but he's got harnessed lightning to clear the blocker. I probably should've just taken for lethal, but I'm no quitter so I alliance for his adept going to 1. I top an illuminator so that goes down and I've got a 2nd scatter in hand that keeps hellion off the board. I chump grubs, but top land and drop it, and I guess as punishment for not rolling over he fleetwheels and invigorated rampages for ultra-lethal.

G5. Loss vs. R40 4c Superfriends
Bleh, I'm screwing this up. I throw back a very similar hand to my last game (lots of removal, first creature at 4), draw a 2 land that maybe was the keep, but it started at 3. No land at 6 obvs and end up with a 5 that's not much better than the first mulligan and notably worse than the original hand (I think). I do top the land and he's not playing things, so maybe there's a chance. I get nebalghast down at the end of his 3, and I hit him once, but he's got anguished unmaking at my end step. He and I both draw-go (him 2x) and I wyvern at his end step, and that gets spell shrivel. That gives me a chance to drop Gisela, but when he untaps he's got Sorin who minuses to kill her. I put down a bygone bishop, but when he untaps he goes for cast-out. This is almost certainly super wrong, but I queller the cast-out, netting a clue and buying a swing into Sorin. Mr. Sorin finds him a harnessed lightning though so that all unravels. We dink around from there, but he's revealed a spell shrivel so I'm playing around that, while he drops Nahiri and then Ob Nixilis and I never really mount a serious threat till Nahiri ults for ulamog (sorin has me to 10) and ob kills the blocker.

G6. Win vs. R40 Simicdrazi ramp
Whew…after an earlier game 6 that we just won't talk about, feel like we're playing magic again (albeit vaguely lucky magic). Early turns go selfless spirit (spatial contortion immediately)->weaver of currents->declaration in stone->Thought-knot. I'm holding a pair of collective efforts and Gisela + land, so he exiles Gisela. I decide to use some effort and get another draw, netting nebalghast and rattlechains (Victory!). He's got Kiora on his turn (minus and whiff on creature), and I land-go. He taps out a drowner of hope (ick) but I go ahead and flash in my doods end step. I've topped a Niblis, and decide effort isn't good enough here, so move to attacks and he taps down nebalghast and I take Kiora to 1, and drop niblis. He's got a 2nd drowner though (ick) and swings with the first putting me to 15. I've got always watching and collective effort but just 3 W - maybe effort was the play here the more I think about it, but he's got a lumbering falls plus the drowners and I opt for always watching. He taps down the team in response. On his turn he suicides kiora finding an arborback stomper and land, but he loads up the falls and puts me to 2. I topdeck like a pro and find a declaration in stone, so he gets a couple of clues. He drops a thought-knot and steals my collective effort passing back, but I've still got lethal in the air...until that is, he commits my always watching at my attack step. Fortunately for the good guys, what he doesn't know is I've topdecked an essence flux, so I go ahead and put him to 2. He loads up the falls, but at his attackstep, I flux niblis, tapping thought-knot and bricking falls, and his arborback isn't quite good enough.

G7. Loss vs. R40 Sultai Control
Jesus the shuffler hates you flaky. 1 land, 5 land, 1 land, and I'm back to 5. I've got a selfless spirit T2 and proceed to pecking away. I'm durdling at 3 land and just leaving up queller since he doesn't appear all that interested in stopping me (or doesn't want to cast into open blue maybe?). He drops land 6 (tapped) and goes for nissa vastwood seer, I throw out the queller, but he's got an essence scatter for that. I decide to dec stone nissa now while he's tapped because I doubt he's going to just let me kill her. Sure enough, when he untaps he's got a push, but I've got a flux. He's at 12 though and decides maybe spirit needs languish (always a good sign). I'm out of critters though so I can't capitalize (another flux and collective effort in hand) so land-go and he drops a hydra. I land-go again, but I've topped a nebalghast. And that gets cast at his attack step. He burns his hexproof on the tap and I debate about fluxing to tap in response, but decide to let it go since I'm still at 20 so 5 isn't the end of the world. Fortunate for me, since he's got a battle at the bridge 2nd main, so that gets the flux. I don't guess it would've mattered, but I decide with him at 12, the clock is the same whether I add a counter or not (which the astute reader will note is precisely why you just kill the hydra and swing....) so I absolutely add a counter...and my giant nebalghast gets a never as soon as he untaps. We're both a bit on fumes (well I am anyway, there's a not horrible chance he's just waiting). I find another nebalghast and that goes down at his endstep and gets in once, but he's got a noxious gearhulk for that, and returns a zombie with me empty handed. I top a commit, and maybe that should've happened on the first attack, but I'm still at 5 land and don't particularly want to have gearhulk kill another creature, so I let a swing through going to 8 and he passes back (he's got an abbey, so now I have to commit). I top a blessed alliance that could also be an option, but with the 1/1 decide on commit. Ultimately it doesn't matter though because it gets scattered and the swing lands for lethal.