FishyTog Top 4 In Akron OH

Friday, November 9th I piloted my home brew UB FishyTog deck to a 4-2 (including one scoop to a teammate) finish and a four-way split in the top 4. 19 players attended for 5 rounds before cutting to top 8. The deck i played was:

//Lands// (24)

4x Polluted Delta
2x Flooded Strand
4x Underground Sea
1x Island
1x Swamp
4x Chrome Mox
4x Mishra's Factory
4x Wasteland

//Creatures// (14)

4x Dark Confidant
4x Looter Il-Kor
3x Shadowmage Infiltrator
3x Psychatog

//Spells// (22)

3x Damnation
3x Slaughter Pact (having this forced made my day. Having a land flipped via counterbalance to counter this ruined my day)
2x Jitte
3x Duress
4x Force of Will
3x Daze
4x Brainstorm

//Sideboard// (15)
4x Chalice
4x E Plague
3x Extripate
3x Pithing Needle
1x Jitte

My rounds went as follows:

Round 1
vs BGw Aggro-control (goyf, watchwolf, bob, lions, serra avenger, deed)

Game one I'm on the draw and mull to six to keep a hand of (fetch, C Mox, Duress, Looter, Force, Shadowmage) and he leads with a savannah lions. I draw a brainstorm and lead with Land, Mox (imprint duress), crack fetch, play looter. He plays a second turn goyf which I force with brainstorm. (counting on hitting a land with looter and winning via shadowmage/looter card advantage) I draw a chrome mox and looter finds me a jitte in its place, which I play. He drops deed on his turn and swings me to 16, passing the turn. I cannot find another land to play shadowmage, so I swing in and grab counters on Jitte. His turn he swings, pops deed for two (leaving me with only a sea and 18 life) and plays a serra avenger, who finishes the game quickly.
Game two a turn one bob into turn two Dr. Teeth finishes the game quickly alongside a timely daze on a deed. (I boarded in a jitte, and three needles for deed in place of 3 duress and 1 daze.)
game three he gets double E Witness and blocks Tog for eternity while I turn over more and more useless cards allowing him to CA/Deed FTW (I once saw bob flip chrome mox, a draw of chome mox, and looted a chrome mox)
One of the main problems I had in theese games was that I never saw a damnation, though I had at least one constant card drawing/filtering effect online each game. Frowns.

Record 0-1
Round 2
vs Jacob Redfern (from my team) and affinity (with vial, bob, and (goyfs which we couldnt find) sans enforcers and frogmites (which replaced the absent goyfs))

Jacob was 1-0 and had been paired down against me. I scooped to him and we played it out for the lulz. Our games were very sloppy, as I was depressed at starting out 0-2 and he was depressed over not having goyfs. We make infinite take-backs (like him misclicking with chrome star colors and disciple) and me drawing before paying for a pact on his plated flyer. Frowns all around, as he did beat me 2-1 in the games we played anyhow. (though double disciple did help game three)

Record 0-2
Round 3
vs UGr Thresh (three or four thresh decks were being played, and this unfortunate fellow had allready played a UGr player and mulled horribly vs a combo player.)

Game one I'm on the play and open with a Confidant off a mox (bob gets forced with a force) and he answers with a goose which I daze. I replay my sea and play a looter. (which he forces !!! with a spell snare) He then resolves a Goyf against me, (go figure i cant see two alnds, two threats, and four counters) which I answer turn three with Dr. Teeth. Turn four he swings a 3/4 goyf (instant, (my fetch), creature) whcih I block with Dr. Teeth and one card in hand (four in the bin) I pump goyf twice to a three four (ensuring that we both agree on the abilities resolving) and notify him that Tog just ate the only land in a bin, and that goyf was now a 2/3... and ask him if his last card happens to be bolt... It is, and goyf and Tog trade with the help of a bolt. My next card happens to be a shadowmage to go with the jitte in my hand and finkle carries jitte to victory.
I board out three duress (starting to think theese should be cashseize, yet I'm hesitant to play seize, bob, and fetches in the same deck) and two dazes for one jitte and four chalices.
Game two is the silliest game of magic I've played in quite some time. I'm on the draw, and at seven I see no lands, at six, i see a factory and no moxen, at five I finally see a Sea and a brainstorm (should be fine on the draw with 23 remaining land cards out of 55.... right?) with an active force. He keeps a hand of lands a goose, and a goyf. Goose resolves, and I draw a chalice. I play Sea, Brainstorm... no lands in the top three.... mega-frowns. I force his Goyf, and goose begins the slow race one by one. After drawing through the two non-lands, I come across ANOTHER brainstorm, which I play and hit.... no lands. He has been intentionally playing lands off the top of his (18 lands in the darn) deck, and resolves another non-thresh goose around turn six. The 1/1s go the distance and end-game, I have a bigger grave than him as he reveals his hand of 4 lands and a daze. Sidenote: if i had actually seen the one daze left in the deck, I may have won this by tapping sea, playing chalice for zero, dazing with sea, replaying sea and playing either a bob or a looter.
Game three I get down looters on turns one and two, and he has a goose and a later goyf (which I let resolve per what i have in my sculpted hand at that point: pact,pact,Tog) I attempt to pact his goyf, which he forces (best two for one EVAR!!! ) and I pact again!!! and play my now-safe Tog. Tog wins handily after I pay for my layaway Dark Banishing the following turn.

Record 1-2
Round 4
vs Suicide Black

He is playing old-school sui, and leads game one with carnophage, which i answer with factory, mox, looter followed by two zombie-enchants. Looter filters my hand for a few turns while factory keeps 'phage tapped and the zombies at bay. I force the only shade he sees, and after he dumps his hand I damnation into Tog + Jitte FTW.

I board out 3x Shadowmage and 3x Slaughter pact (thank god for looter, as theese were absolutly dead in this matchup) and 3x duress for 4x chalice, 1x Jitte, and 4x E- Plague (which I actually use to kill his pro-white jump knight) He opens with land, dark rit, needle, (naming factory: a testament as to how much of a bomb factory was game one, you'd think he's name tog) Hymn which eats the force. I play a factory (frowns), mox, chalice for one (with tog in hand) and he gets stuck on 1 land revelaing a host of one drops after tog smashes face.

Record 2-2
Round 5
vs UB discard/mill

Game one i go apeshit again with double looter and a later jitte, which ends the game in a hurry (I see a few CMC 2 discards/mill spells before it ens, as he gets stuck on two lands and a !!! signet) I board in chalices and two needles and out damnations and pacts.
game two he plays the UB mill twenty spell on me turn two (which I DONT force, as a 11/12 Tog is in hand and hungry.) and after I land tog, Haunting Echoes does eat the force. I drop chalice for two and Tog has dinner. I think this is the best matchup imaginable for tog.

Record 3-2
Top Eight
vs BGw Aggro-control (same player as Round 1)

I drop a pair of factories after Brainstorming and hold off his team of (small goyf) and lions. I get him to over-commit with Avenger and damnation his board of 3 creatures and one card. I drop looter and jitte and wrap things up shortly after. His response to damnation was "OMFG, I didnt know you played damnation!!!" (... yeah, tell me about it)
game two I get a factory online to help against his aggro opening of lions, watchwolf. One turn he doesn't attack with the lions, even though I only have factory untapped, (perhaps he thought it could activate itself and block) But after a deed warths the board, my CA and shadowmage couldnt race his two flying avengers (both off the top! ). (a needle I dropped on deed was vindicated)
Game three I needle Deed, play shadowmage and land chalices for one and two, following it up with a dmanation for good measure. He reveals his hand of avenger, Grunt, StP, and Deedx2. Epic win. Looter and factory x3 usher a concession.

Record 4-2
(quarterfinals all split for $18 in store credit (entry was only $5) and I pick up a savannah out of the case to finish my set.)
Top 4 consisted of:
UGr Thresh (my buddy Kyle Paster)
UB FishyTog
?TES/Iggy?
UG (?r/w?) Thresh

Props to my fellow Lucksacks Kyle, Kent, and Jacob, (who drove from Columbu, Columbus, and BG) the store owner for having weekly Legacy tournaments, (and a great case with duals, fetches, and cashsiezes) and my mill/discard opponent for facilitating the biggest and free-est feast Tog has ever had.

Cuts on Kyle for not sticking with his commitment to play y Faerie Stompy deck, (which would have allowed jacob to actually run Goyfs over frogmites... ughhh) and Lorwyn for having such god-awful rares like Colfeners' ____.