Game universe mox jet 5/13

For the last few weeks i have been playing around with slaver, mainly because of the change to gifts i wanted to try something else. So i decided to look around at some of the popular slaver lists played by the top slaver players. I looked at jeff anons, shays, and demars lists along with several other random lists. I decided to base my deck off demars list. His list is as follows.
Maindeck: (Last starcity double p9)

Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
1 Crucible Of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

Artifact Creatures
1 Duplicant
1 Sundering Titan

Artifact Lands
1 Darksteel Citadel

Creatures
3 Goblin Welder
2 Gorilla Shaman

Instants
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force Of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Mana Drain
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Thirst For Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor

Legendary Artifacts
1 Mindslaver

Sorceries
1 Burning Wish
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Basic Lands
3 Island

Lands
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
2 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island

Legendary Lands
1 Tolarian Academy

Snow-Covered Basic Lands
1 Snow-covered Island

Sideboard:
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire / Ice
1 Pyroblast
1 Rack And Ruin
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Deep Analysis
3 Duress
1 Echoing Ruin
1 Rolling Earthquake
1 Tendrils Of Agony

I began to test with his deck and really liked how versatile the deck was. It can play out in a couple of different ways. It has the traditional slaver lock with crucible to go infi. It has the option to combo your opponent out with burning wish, and it has a mana denial component even with the shaman and crucible strip. So i decided to make a few changes to the deck to fit my playstyle a little better.

changes are as follows
darksteel citadel -> seat of the synod
sonw-covered island -> Library of alexandria
volcanic island #3 -> fetch # 5
titan -> Triskelion
shaman #2 -> Merchant scroll

Explanation of my changes
I usually actually like citadel better than seat but because i had cut one of the 4 islands for a library i decided to change the ignot to a seat to try and prevent blue mana screw from happening.
I added library because of the random games it wins from being im my oppening hand and the house it can be in the control mirror. wond me atleast 5 games by itself int he last 2 tourneys.
i cut down to 2 volcanics mainly because i really found myself not needing them that often and with the 5th fetch i can still easily find it and it makes my b-storms better.
I love triskelion to much not to play, titan is very good in matchups like gifts but for the most part trike is more useful against the meta overall. its a house against fish, the slaver mirror, and any deck that has enemy welders. trike is also a lot quicker clock than most realize.
i decided to cut the second shaman for the scroll mainly because scroll is such a versatile card that can find such a variety of things i may need. Shaman however is amazing but i find that playing one is enough in most cases.

So after looking at the changes here is the deck that i have piloted twice so far both times walking away with a peice of power. the maindeck was identical for both tourneys.

My List

MANA
5 mox
1 lotus
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
1 sol ring
2 underground
2 volcanic
4 delta
1 strand
1 tolarian
1 library
1 seat of the synod
3 island
1 strip mine

INSTANTS
4 fow
4 b-storm
4 tfk
4 drain
1 gifts
1 vamp
1 mystical
1 ancestral
1 echoing truth

SORCERY
1 demonic
1 burning wish
1 yawg win
1 mercant scroll
1 time walk
1 tinker

CREATURES
3 welder
1 shaman
1 trike
1 duplicant

ARTIFACTS
1 mind slaver
1 crucible

The sideboard is pretty easily adjusted to fit your meta even though the wish does take up several spots in ur sb.

SB in chicago
3 red blast
1 tendrils
1 rack and ruin
1 rushing river
1 ensnaring bridge
1 solemn simulacrum
2 duress
1 shattering spree
1 massacre
1 pyroclasm
1 pyrite spellbomb
1 tormods crypt

SB in milwaukee
minus one shattering spree + one rack and ruin

Milwaukee game universe results

Round one Soly (Almost identical deck to me)
Game one i go first turn mox kand ring pass turn. soly goes land go. i draw a fow so i have protestion for my tinker, i get trike he goes the whole way.

Game 2 soly tinkers out the early trike but i manage to find a demonic tutor for my choing truth and win off a will several turns later.

2-0

1-0-0

Round 2 Brian miswald (U/R Fish)
Game 1 i mull to 6 and keep a hand that is mox, mox, fetch, crucible, big guy, and something else. he goes shaman go. i figure at this point if he has a fow i lose if he doesnt ill probably win. i play my moxes and crucible it resolves. i spend several turn fetching out my 3 basics and then gifts after i drain a lavamancer. gifts gets me strip, lotus, walk, ancestral. he gives me strip since i have played my land for turn already and the lotus. i pass turn. on my turn i begin the to strip his lands and use lotus to play duplicant with no target so i have a blocker for his 2 shamans. he scoops aftert i strip his whole mana base and all thats onthe board is his shamans.

Game 2 he does what his deck is saposed to do mana screw me and he wins easily.

game 3 Gorilla shaman is an ALLSTAR he eats 3 null rods which lets me weld in my trike he scoops to trike being amazing against his deck.

2-1

2-0-0

Round 3 Rafe (playing his combo deck)
Game one my hand is land, vault, mana crypt, thirst, b storm slaver and another land. i am one mana short of playing slaver so i play tfh which gets me a fow and i ditch dup i think. he plays a duress and decides to take my other thirst instead of my fow donno y he does. my turn i play another land and drop slaver. my hand is now fow, fow, b-storm. rafe play a gifts his turn i let it resolve he gets 4 cards i give him duress and recoup. he play rit i say ok he then plays duress and is not happy to see i have to forces. he plays his hurkyls anyways and i force. i draw and then slave him. he has 3 mana recoup and gifts in hand he rips a land which is awesome since i can now play gifts. he has already used lotus this game so i cant get a big will going so i get lotus petal and ancestral targeting me. he passes turn with a sol recoup in hand. i win in a few truns.

game 2 i draw kinda the nuts hand of counters strip and whatelse i win the game pretty easily.

2-0

3-0-0

Round 4 i draw with owen round 5 i draw with chris

Top eight round one Rafe (Again)
hes on the play and i mull into what seems like a amazing hand 1 island, 2 fetch, recall, will, walk. he play land mox petal go. i play land and then ancetral i hit a fow which makes my hand even better i have to discard so i through dup in the yard. i am pretty confidant i will win at this point but his turn he plays a duress for my fow then rit rit tutor will and win. nothin i could do he had a good hand

Game 2 i keep a very risky hand it is seat, 2 more land, crypt, tinker, lotus i play crypt land and tinker out slaver. he doesnt have fow amazing for me. i play lotus and pass turn. he plays a first turn gifts with tolarian and artifact mana and passes trun., i draw welder play it and slave. he has lions eye in hand amazing. he draws a mox so i can play his death wich and sac lions eye in response for black i grab his imp seal out of the board and make him find a land. my turn i draw vamp and pass he draws his land and passes i vamp and for crucible which geives me the lock on my turn he scoops.

Game 3 i have a pretty crazy hand i have red blast, gifts, tolarian, island, ruby, pearl, sol ring and i dont remeber wha ti drew. i play moxes into sol ring then tolarian into gifts with a blue floating with ruby untapped. gifts resolves. i want to get the 4 best threats possible so i get will, lotus, tinker, and recall. i know he will give me lotus and recall beacuse will is jsut to insane and tinker will although me to fetch and actiavate slaver on the next turn. i play lotus and then recall with the blue i had floating it get me not much. but i then sac lotus and walk. i end up having like infi mana with 2 fows and a blast in hand i can hardcast both forces in a turn. he duress and takes a fow. i draw a brainstorm at end of his turn i b-storm into my slaver. my turn i play slaver i dont need to fow so i then activate. i win a few turns later.

2-1

4-0-2 on the day

Top 4 Chris with slaver

We decided that this match will come doew to some luck since we are playign very similar decks. game one i get an early tiker for slaver and pass turn he wills on his trun for a few things to make my saver activation less detramental. i slave him and he has mystical strom and merchant in hand and a drain. first i merchant and recall myself then a series aof bstorms leave him with drain in hand and fow on top my turn i will and win.

game 2 i get a little mana scrwed he play early trike i fow he fows i blast he fows again and trike beats me down.

Game 3 I get raw card advantage with turn one recall and plety of red blasts and thirst he scoops to my trike that will kill bnoth his welders.

2-1

5-0-2 on the day

Dan manages to win his match against some crazy hate and we split another peice of power probably like #5 for me and dan. I win rock paper scissors for the championship. i had owed dan 80 in trade for quite some time from a previous split so we decide to settle up and i walk away with a set of fows and 40 store credit and my debt paid.

Even though many people do not care for slaver the deck has been nothing but a beast for me lately. the raw power of a slaver actiavtion is just amazing. i can say i have never lost a game with the deck after i got a chance to activate a slaver.

Props
Are team for its usual domination

Dan for beating owen so i didnt have 2

Mongolian bbq

For 5 of us making top 8

For rafe losing to soly round 5 and still squeekign in top 8

Shaman for being a house all day

Slaver for being the godly card it is (and for the fun it gives me in controling opponents turns)

Slops

Game universe for poor prise support

Whoever decided they had better things to do then come to the tourny

Me for breaking my undefeated streak with slaver which had been 13 straight games.