Turn 1 ToC Report

Hi all, this is my first report of an online tournament since it is the first time I play in the ToC.
Please pardon my English mistakes, I will try to show you my best grammar.

I decided to play in the ToC a monored stacker-like deck and my first opponent, Michael Farmakis aka micfarm from Athens, labelled his deck "Millionsofsquirrels.dec"...needless to say, when I saw the turn 1 pairings I immediately realised it had to be a very hard match for me (for the decklists we played please check the topic in the "online Tournaments" page on this site).

Game 1. As I feared, I lost miserably, maybe turn 4 or 5. I have not maindeck solutions against combo decks so it wasn't a surprise for me to bite the dust. I tried to cast two first turn Cursed Scroll and an early Juggernaut but my pressure was overcome by tons of squirrels...0-1. Well, it's time for sideboarding.

Game 2. I put in 4 Jester's Cap, 4 REB, 4 Pyroblast, and 2 Shaman, in the place of the 12 burn spells (useless) and the 2 Masticore (useless too, I think). My starting hand looked great, with 2 Jester's Cap and 1 Welder, plus mana acceleration, 1 Workshop and 1 REB.
I waited the second turn to cast the Cap, so I was able to protect it with a REB against his FoW. In the third turn I activated the Jester removing 3 Squirrels Nest from his deck, and I was able to cast the Welder. In the two following turns I used the Jester's Cap twice, via Welder's recursion, removing the other pieces of the combo left in the library: 1-1.
I must admit I was lucky with my starting hand and with the fact he did play only one counter. Moreover, in the last turn I had in my hand only a Wheel of Fortune, and I decided to cast it to get some artifacts to feed the Welder with. I wanted to use the Jester soon, since he had cast a Squirrels Nest and one single Earthcraft was still in his library. I got a Su-Chi, and he didn't get a counter, and the game ended at that point.

Game 3. I made the same changes, and this time we reached turn 5 or 6 without doing quite anything. Then I drew a Jester's Cap, and I cast it. He answered with FoW, so I played the REB, but he had another counter (Misdirection). The Jester's Cap went in the graveyard, but I was able to cast a Cursed Scroll. That proved to be the key move of the match: as a matter of fact in the following turn I draw another Jester's Cap, and the turn later the Scroll allowed me to tap my Tolarian for 2 activating the Jester. Since he had 2 Squirrels Nest in his hand I removed 3 Earthcraft, and a few turns later I removed the other Earthcraft thank to a Welder. 2-1. Game for me.
Like in the previous match I was a little lucky, since he got mana screwed, and the 2 Wasteland I drew made the rest.

Anyway I won a game I didn't really believe to win. But that's Magic, and I was a little lucky.

---Shaman---