QnD report,
I played Oath with Orchards, basicly mono-blue with Oath
Round 1: Stax
Game 1 Colossus happens (oath) (±turn 3)
Game 2 Colossus happens (tinker) (turn 2). I had nothing else but he fails to draw an answer while there were several options.
Round 2: Mono-Blue (this match is over in ±15 minutes)
Game 1: Colossus happens (oath) I was in full control for some time, until he decided to play a Morplhing so that I could oath up some beef.
Game 2: Colossus > Ophidian
Round 3: Stax
ID
Round 4: Keeper
Game 1: He Tinkers and I'm mana screwed
Game 2: Drain Colossus into Colossus
Game 3: I got Colossi, he got the card advantage. I topdeck time walk in turn 4 of extra turns, but he hold yet another Swords (making it a draw)
Round 5: Keeper
Game 1: Collosus happens (oath)
Game 2: I get beat down by two Spirits (I was mana-screwed)
Game 3: Colossus happens after a Balance to neutralize my card advantage
Round 6: Control Slaver
ID
3-0-3 makes 7th place (there were a lot of draws and such, and my resistance was good enough to make the gamble, I get in placing 7th)
Top 8: Mono-U (our own Morefling)
Game 1: He has a mulligan, I have a LoA
Game 2: He has a double mulligan, I only have one, he Tinker for a bad boy, but I can deal with it.
Top 4: Control Slaver
Game 1: Blood Moon happens (I drew crap this whole game)
Game 2: Spirits beat me down, although I hit him pretty hard with a Chalice for 1
Is not bad for the first time playing with this deck, but I feel like I made an error sideboarding in the last match (sided out 2 Oath). And my sideboard didn't have the right tools against Control Slaver.
Stax turned out to be a pretty good matchup, while this was the thing I was most afraid of. (I plastested the matchup during the deck against different people too, might have helped)
I played the version I posted here with a slighlty adapted sideboard and 1 change maindeck (+1 Volcanic, making it 61 cards)
Lands: (17)
1 Library Of Alexandia
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Polluted Delta
4 Island
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
Artifact Acceleration: (7)
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
Draw & Search: (14)
4 Brainstorm
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Deep Analysis
3 Intuition
Counters: (11)
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Leak
Oath and Friends: (8)
4 Oath of Druids
2 Darksteel Colossus
1 Gaeas Blessing
1 Tinker
Utility: (3)
2 Cunning Wish
1 Time Walk
This was my sideboard:
1 Deep Analysis
1 Counterspell
1 Echoing Truth
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Lava Dart
2 REB
3 Chalice
1 Platinum Angel
1 Oxidize
And this is what it probably should have been:
1 Deep Analysis
1 Echoing Truth
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Lava Dart
1 REB
3 Chalice
1 Platinum Angel
1 Oxidize
3 Ground Seal
1 Triskelion
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People have been complaining about Colossus not being the right win condition, and I think a 1/1 Split of Colossus/Akroma might be doable, but you simply need 1 Colossus.
This deck is extremely strong,
Koen
