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I ran a shopless survival deck at a local tourney last night, I haven't played there in awhile but I made it to T8, lost in quarterfinals to control slaver (this guy had ninja skills in deck cutting, i either drew all mana or no mana). Here is the deck list I took:
4x Bazaar of Baghdad
2x Riftstone Portal
4x Taiga
4x Wooded Foothills
5x Forest
2x Mountain
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring
4x Skullclamp
4x Survival of the Fittest
1x Llanowar Elves
3x Birds of Paradise
3x Xantid Swarm
1x Anger
4x Squee, Goblin Nabob
4x Goblin Welder
2x Basking Rootwalla
1x Duplicant
1x Triskelion
1x Sundering Titan
1x Platinum Angel
2x Blood Moon
Sideboard
4x Artifact Mutation
3x Sphere of Resistance
4x Ray of Revelation
4x Pyrostatic Pillar
I tried to stick to the bazzared decklist as best I could, but had to make substitutions where I didn't have the cards, such as the 2 Basking rootwalla for the xantid and eternal witness. I also didn't really know the meta I was going into, so I sideboarded Pyrostatic Pillar incase of combo.
Round 1 vs. Mono Black Tomfoolery
Game 1: 2nd Turn Titan made me a happy boy.
Game 2: He was able to stall me long enough to cast a life ending consume spirit
Game 3: Trike took care of Withered Wretch and Titan won it again.
I had sideboarded in Artifact Mutations.
2 - 1 - 0
Round 2 vs. "4x Kokusho the Evening star and a lot of reanimate"
Game 1: He won. Claws of Gix saved him.
Game 2: I won. 2nd Turn Titan stunted his mana growth enough for the win.
Game 3: He won. I have no sideboard answers.
3 - 3 - 0
Round 3 vs. A Goblin Deck
All two games go "duplicant + trike + platinum = good game", I think I sideboarded in Sphere of Resistance to add more artifacts and to slow his clock a little.
5 - 3 - 0
Round 4 vs. Oath
This is the first Oath deck I've played against, and I was in 9th place and he was in 10th going into this match.
Game 1: He got oath out before I could kill him and he killed me.
Game 2: He couldn't find an oath and I attacked him to death with big artifacts
Game 3: I get a Ray into my g-yard first turn and kill his first turn oath. both of our boards develop. He removes my graveyard from the game with Tormod's Crypt, removing 2 squee and anger, among other things. He also plays cursed totem. I clamp all of my now useless creatures because I'm not playing artifact mutation and the game continues. We go past the time limit and we're on our last 5 turns. He has Akroma and Colossus out. I have platinum angel out and I'm at -5 life. I try to hardcast duplicant but it's countered. His turn 3 he casts fact or fiction, thinking he has 3 echoing truths in his library. He only had 2, so for his third card he picked wrath of god. I chose wrath, he only had 1 white source available. Turn 4, I cast two sphere of resistance (one is countered) in an attempt to keep WoG from being able to be cast. He lets it be known that if the top card of his libary on Turn 5 is not a white producing mana source, then it's a draw. It was not a white producing mana source, and so we drew. Phew!
I had sideboarded in Ray of Revelations and Sphere of Resistance both games. The Sphere was questionable, and I was questioned about it's choice, but I needed something and had nothing in my board.
6 - 4 - 1
This put me in 7th place. I then played against Control Slaver in the quarterfinals and lost. I had sideboarded in Artifact Mutations but they weren't enough.
Thoughts: I think Gaea's Blessing could probably be a good sideboard choice. It can serve a dual purpose, saving your guys from a Tormod's or putting annoying cards (like those damn Kokushos) back into their library. A little burn would have been helpful against opposing welders as well.
Just my 2 cents. I love this deck though, great idea.
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