Help with upcoming tournament please.

[Wildfire]

I have a mox tournament coming up in a week and i am stuck on what to play. It is a 10 proxy tournament and the decks i can build are. U/w fish, FCG, TPS, Gifts belcher/non-belcher/welder/welderless, doomsday, landstill, stax/wledrs, satxs/iteoc,chains, workshop aggro, and 2 land belcher. The meta in my area is very changing at our first tournament it was predomnantly FCG, with oath, dragon, metal worker/staff. At our second tournament 0 FCG, and dominatly oath, with some fish, landstill, dragon, 2 workshoop aggro, and crap. After noone playing oath made top 8 i suspect that alot of people will not play oath. TPS won our second tournament so i assume some people will build that, as so many people brought oath to crush FCG. I assume to at least see a couple FCG, 1-2 oath's, 3-4 form of combo whether it be dragon, TPS, or Doomsday, 1 landstill, and maybe some u/w fish. Decks that i am thinking i could pilot successfully  and not mess up u/w fis( a build like waterburys but with wheathered wayfarers main), FCG, any form of workshop. The gifts deck i have been parcting with ( belcherless) and am improivng but make some bad mistakes in general gift targets.

So to people more experience with type 1 what do you think would be the best deck for this meta, and other useful deck criticsim.

This is the deck list of fish im so found of, i kind of want to find a way to fit 3 wheathered wayfarers in there and a couple crucibles.
http://http://sales.starcitygames.com/deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=11408

[Wildfire]

what is the best sideboard hate fish can run against oath? Maze of ith ( if running wayfarers), control magic?, or rootwater thief?

[BigMac]

bouncecritters next to vial. It negates the counters and you can bounce their critters.

About what deck to play. You need to play a deck you feel comfotable with. You need to trust your deck and you need to know your deck in order to trust it. This is needed in order to take mulligans or not, how to play against certain other decks, know its weaknesses and know its strengths, know how to overcome its weaknesses, know how to use your sideboard (what to side in and out). So basically a deck you have been practicing with for a long time and feel good about.

Nowadays magic very much more depends on skill than luck. Skill in first hands and how to play them out. You also need to (at least try) read the metagame so you can make your sideboard accordingly. And most decks can win over other decks with a skilled player at the wheel.

So pick a deck you are comfortable with.

[yespuhyren]

Obviously having a good deck is very important here, but once you do have a good deck, the most important factor in how the deck performs is how comfortable you are with the deck and how much you have tested.

If you test your deck a lot, then you have a better chance of coming across similiar situations in the tournament, and you will know what did and didn't work for you.  I would look at what decks have been doing well in the area recently, and I would test aggressively against those decks for the next week.  If the deck just doesn't feel right in testing, then change decks, because feeling the deck is extremely important.

[Law]

Two things you need to take into account when you pick your deck for the turny. The hardest and the ones that can do the most are the tempo decks (R/G tempo, all the Fish builds, White Tempo [Still testing it myself, not fully as good as I want but shows promise], ect...) Next ones are the easy combo decks (Dragon, FCG, ect...). Paste that there are a few others you could put together and get some practice with them as well. Since once you pick what deck you plan on playing, you need to practice with it as much as you can before the tournament.

I can PM you one or two of the deck lists. (I don't have a list ready but use the link in my Signature or ask around here for people that can give you what you need.)

[Kowal]

The hardest and the ones that can do the most are the tempo decks (R/G tempo, all the Fish builds, White Tempo [Still testing it myself, not fully as good as I want but shows promise], ect...) Next ones are the easy combo decks (Dragon, FCG, ect...)

What planet are you from where R/G and Chalice Fish are more difficult to pilot correctly than Dragon or Food Chain?

[Yawgmoths_Dummy]

Why would you ask anyone else what to play at a tournie? Deck decisions should, for the most part, be made from within.

What kind of player are you? What kind of decks do you normally play? What decks can you win with?

Aggro
Aggro-Control
Control
Control-Combo
Combo

Do you like up tempo creature kill? Or maybe you like taking 20 minute turns amassing tons of mana, and storm count, and killing with a large Tendrils? Prehaps you like countering everything your opponent plays, until you can drop Morphling, or Tinker out Darksteel Beatstick?

Knowing what decks you may face, and how to play your chosen deck against them, will help. But going into a big tournie, with a new deck, that does not fit your style of play can lead to a very dissapointing 0-2 drop.

I think your Fish deck is solid. If you are comfortable with it, that should be the way to go. Fish doesn't have too many auto-losses, and has proven very competative.

Good luck at your tournie!