tournament report

In the end I decided to play the following deck at Ontario Vintage ... Unfortunately I had forgotten my flings and Necro and Negators at home so made due within a few more Echoing truths and some Merchant Scrolls ....

Brand Name Canuck.dec

4 Hunted Horror
4 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Grim Tutor
1 Necropotence

4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
1 Echoing Truth
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker

4 Brand
3 Fling

4 Engineered Explosives
1 Darksteel Colossus

4 Dark Ritual
4 Polluted Delta
1 Watery Grave
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Badlands
3 Forbiddan Orchard
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus

sb:
3 Planar Void
3 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Rebuild
3 Phyrexian Negator
3 ReB
1 Echoing Truth

I lost every match 1-2 after winning the first game. I played against some solid decks but had the absolute worst luck imaginable. In every match I lost every game with my opponent at seven life or less and never once drew into a Fling ( as I had forgotten them). In all three matches I never drew a necro ( yes I forgot this as well)r. In all three matches I never once got a Tinker/Colossus. Go figure.
Overall the deck was a blast to play.

My first match was against U/w Fish type deck with Mages, StPs, Ninja et all but no Vials. I had Horrors on board turns two or three every game. Unfortunately he had STPs and I had no fling. He simply drew better games two and three despite my having him down to seven and four life before i was even hit.

Match two i was paired against a Gobbo deck who sideboarded in Ice Flows. Notice that I have no answer form this other than getting a second Horror or a Fling neither of which happened on time and either of which would have won me either game. .

Third game ( just for fun) was against combo and my sideboard just let me down - no reb/red mana when needed and no early Duress. My secret weapon - 1st turn Negator also did9d not show up despite mulliganing aggressively. So it goes.

That said I would play this deck again. Janky as it looks it was a blast to play and my opponents all had a good scare playing against it - or so they said. Looking at 7 points of damage turn 2 and 13 points of damage turn three is a bit nasty and happened over 30% of the time. At the worst it took a turn longer because I needed to search or draw into EE or Brand or Horror before 'going off'. .

Now this is the first time in awhile that I gave not managed a winning record with one of my rogue decks. But I'm sure next time I'll improve and hopefully have a better report. Next time I will bring all my cards as well but I was rushed and called away from the tables by work so I needed to play fast and leave.