(I am sorry for my english )
Hello, I have just seen this topic and i have decided to register.
I am Luca Brugnone, the player of the quoted list.
The list is wrong because i play with 3 Fatestitcher and 1 Ancestral Recall.
I decided to play a list with 3 titans and 4 dread return because i like very fast deck and because i love Sun Titan, imho a very good card in this deck because it can do nice tricks with bazaar and bloodghast.
With this list i did:
7-2 at DDay losing the last game to get into top8 with an opponent who is the god of timetwister
I won the T1T #12 in Pontedera (45 players)
I won 2 tournaments with -30 players
I makes 4 top8 in tournaments with +40 players
All this in 12 tournaments, imho it's good.
I decided to play 4 dread return, 3 fatestitcher+1 ancestral and 3 sun titan because i want to see those cards and I hate wasting time; this deck is designed to be as fast as possible, decrease the amount of those cards would decrease the chances to close within 2° turn.
Why play Sun Titan and non Iona, Terastodont and/or Woodfall?
I do believe that the best defense is attack.
Iona, and Woodfall Terastodonte are cards that gain time, the don't win but give only a problem at the oppontent.
Iona enters into game and i chose a color: if i chose blue i risk to get black bombs (for example yawgmot's will or necropotence), if I chose black i risk to get blue solutions (for example chain of vapor or echoing truth), if I chose a different color that card is even more useless.
Terastodont and Woodfall broke a permanent.
Ok I'm happy, then in 70% of the cases I can not do anything else ---> End of the turn.
Finish a turn is a risk especially against decks with black.
Sun titan can be an utilities and can help to close because in most cases calls into play the bazaar.
Now, is better have a good chance to win (fastly) or stalling?
Imho ithe first option is better.
Why I don't play Chalice of the void, leyline or unmask?
Explosion.
Unfortunately, a deck has 60/61 cards.
What can I take to put them?
Honestly I don't know.
The rate should compensate for the lack of protections.