Thank you for the compliments, but I am not sure I played flawlessly-- there were a lot of small decisions I didn't go over in detail in the report and I would not be surprised if I made many misplays over the course of the games.  I do feel like I have a good understanding of the deck but I am not Smmenen, and as such I probably screwed up somewhere.

I'm gonna follow Ray's advice here-- "I don't care if you came in 1st or 191st, write a report."  Well, I won two games over the course of the day and overall was generally terrible at Magic, so I'm gonna write a report to get the general populace of the board feeling better about themselves.

Let me introduce myself.  My name's Ben and I'm from Acton.  I'm 17, a high school student, and completely obsessed with magic in all its forms.  I used to play mostly PTQ formats and type 2 (and I did end up Q'ing for a PT) but now I play mostly type 1 and 5-color because they're better.

I ended up bringing DeathLong to the event.  I barned this deck off Smmenen after watching nearly all of his matchups at Waterbury.  It seemed good and my playtesting was going well, but it seemed somewhat inconsistent (FORESHADOWING).

I arrived at the site about an hour before the actual start time or half an hour before the announced time with Don, Ashman, and Dan, half of my test group.  We had some tasty Papa Gino's pizza followed by hot trades.  I had many people interested in my Beta Sapphire, which may in fact be the most beat card I've ever owned.

Let me tell you a little about this bad boy-- I got it for under $200 three days ago.  You know why? It is beat to shit, bent in half and wearing away all over the place.  It is not possible to riffle shuffle it without breaking it in half.  If you flop it around in a sleeve the half that you are not holding will actually bend back and forth.  I ended up "upgrading" to Don's unlimited sapphire at the end of the day by throwing $25 at him, but you're not here to read about that.

After some hot 5-color action against Dan and testing the Long mirror against Kerz, round 1 pairings go up and I'm playing Rich Shay-- great, a testing partner in round 1.  We know exactly what each other is playing too-- and he put Chalices in his board under my recommendation before the tournament starts.  Sigh.

Round 1-- Rich Shay (The Atog Lord) with Counter-Slaver (no workshops, drains-- go read his report)

Game 1: He threw this game away.  I go t1 Xantid Swarm and he says "Sure".  He goes Island, Mox Pearl, go, upkeep ICE YOUR LAND(!?!).  I go off shortly after he can't play spells on my turn for some reason and he dies with two Drains and a Force in hand.

Game 2: Mulligan.  I have Emerald and Lotus in my hand with a Brainstorm so I keep. He goes first turn land, go.  I draw a Pearl and lay a land and say go.  He untaps, lays another land and plays a Chalice for zero.  Unfortunately I have no force.  I then topdeck an Academy and curse the heavens for mocking me so.  Eventually I scoop after he gets complete control.

Game 3: Mulligan.  My hand is fine but his has a Force of Will, a blue card, and a Drain.  He holds me off for a while and then Welds a Plat into play.  My Naturalize is countered and I end up with no cards in hand.  PLATINOWNED!

0-1 (1-2)

I don't do anything meaningful before the next round so I'll cut to the chase.

Round 2-- Mike D with Hulk (no TMD name)

Game 1-- He has a Drain and a Force and I run out of threats-- he IntuAKs, draws a bunch of cards, then Vamps for a Force of Will and shows it to me along with the other counter in his hand.  Pack it in boys.

Game 2-- I have a couple Glimmervoids and a couple moxen in play and I resolve a Windfall into land, land, Xantid Swarm, Brainstorm.  I cast the Xantid Swarm and say go.  He EOT Wishes for Vamp, untaps, Vamps upkeep, plays a Deed, then plays a Mox and blows it for one-- I lose 5 permanents.  From there it was academic.  PERNICIOWNED!

0-2 (1-4)

After the match, Mike says something that I found amusing-- "Only Smmenen can play that deck."  I'm kind of disheartened after that Obliterate targeting me, but I'll live, I guess...

Round 3-- Xellos Metallium with some awful UB control deck.

Game 1-- I cast a draw 7, he Forces, he plays Underground Sea, Lotus Petal, Ritual, Nantuko Shade(!!!), go.  I untap, cast another draw 7, and go off and win from there through the force that I got off it.

Game 2-- This was pathetic.  He gets a turn 1 Ritual-Negator and Forces my first draw 7.  I draw a Xantid Swarm and resolve it while I'm at 9.  He hits me down to 4 and says go-- I untap, bash with Xantid Swarm, and go off savagely, generating 9 mana with a storm count of 15 after which I Timetwister.  Then I draw Mox, Mox, Vault, Crypt, Mine, Rotation, Swarm off the Twister.  Burn to death.

Game 3-- This was worse.  After Death Wishing myself low and getting a couple key threats countered, I td a Memory Jar, play it, and pass the turn.  He untaps, Ancestrals, draws a Ritual and uses it to get out an UNDERWORLD DREAMS(!!!!!!)-- did I mention that I was at 5?  I pop the Jar in response and there was no Force of Will anywhere. UNDERWOWNED!

0-3 (2-6)

I drop and hang myself with my own tongue.

I'd post my decklist but A) It's Smmenen's and he asked me not to and B) it's crap unless you write lengthy articles for StarCity on the vintage metagame and don't think Keeper wins against everything.

Props:
Don for top 8'ing with GAT
Dan for top 8'ing with Parfait
Andy for top 8'ing with Madness
Rich for top 8'ing with CounterSlaver
My group for testing with me
My store for selling me a beat to shit Sapphire
Padded chairs for generally being awesome
Adam Bowers for playing Scepter-ReapLace

Slops:
Dan for playing freaking Parfait
DeathLong, for sucking
Me, for sucking harder
Andy, for choosing his girlfriend over Madness when asked which he'd prefer (my reasoning to the contrary was that Madness had more than one Wild Mongrel)

This was definitely a great event and I had a blast being there even though I crapped out.  If you have the option to go to this store, do so-- padded chairs fucking rule.

I have some issues with this build but I think the concept always has and always will be sound-- fast beats and disruption always seem to work.

First, I think that you don't need the Powder Kegs-- what threats are a problem that you need to wrath away?  You should probably be the aggro deck so don't waste your time on disruption.  I would cut the Echoes and Twist for similar reasons, though those are also too expensive to be that good.

Second, I think you may want more threats-- maybe some Dauthi Slayers due to the emergence of green out there.  You don't want blockers to be a problem.  I would also recommend Withered Wretch against Dragon and control-- you don't need Blessing if you have that guy.  You could also run faster creatures such as Sarcomancy and Carnophage, but I wouldn't do that if your metagame is aggro-heavy.  If you have a lot of control, though, go nuts.

I'm not sure if the Sinkholes should stay or become Unmasks-- you already have 5 strips against Bazaars and hand disruption is quite good when you have that much.

I would have 3 or 4 Perishes in your sideboard to deal with green.  The deck is quite popular and stuff like Troll Ascetic could be quite problematic.

Other than that, as I said, the deck is straightforward and works.  Give it a go.

Firstly, have you tried Chrome Mox over Mox Diamond?  I've tried them both and I must say Chrome is much better.  It's much more likely that you'll have excess spells than excess lands, I've found.

Chromatic Sphere has also been magnificent with LED and the Mirage tutors, not to mention mana fixing in the middle of going off.  I originally wasn't sold but now I wouldn't cut them for anything.

Swarms are very nice and I think they're strictly better than Duress, but you may want to run a couple Force of Wills.  Long is not quite as explosive as it used to be so you want to make sure that you can back up the piece you have with the mana you've spent-- and Force of Will is not only free, but a surprise as well.  In the new builds I think you want more than 4 disruption slots-- and Xantid Swarms do well in the sideboard considering you have Death Wishes.  But that's just me.