David California Type one 2nd

Dear manadrainers
This is a second place report from Davis California at worlds comics. Generally we have alto of stax, blue control decks that play Trigon predators and recently more and more white based fish style decks. After a while of testing in Berkley I finally decided to play a gush oath list I sold from Ben carp. Before the tournament I knew I wanted to prepare for the mirror because I saw people sleeve up some oaths. We dont usually have a ton of dredge in the area so I regulated only board space that was dedicated to the match up. As always sleep it tech and so is not driving. Some of the guys from Berkeley and vacavill were there so I knew we would have some good players. I built the side board the night before expecting mirror, stax, dredge, fish and blue gouf control, we dont have any landstill players that I know of.

Round one opponent, Chubby guy I think named Richard- Stax

He wins the roll, and i mull and keep trop, force, misstep, Pearl, fetch, oath. He drops first turn precursor golem. I drop the oath and he untaps and wastes my trop and plays a smokestack which I force. I oath in to demon, dumping will in the yard. I tutor the walk and from there its academic as I get blisteee to race the golems. I board in the forest and natures claims and hurks for missteps and topdeck tutors. Second I keep jace, orchard, oath, fetch, sea, claim, gush. He drops a first turn lodeston and I play land go. He drops a metamorph and torn. I draw force and lose in two turns. Third game I get mox, trop, jace, Peirce,fetch, gush. I Pierce his first turn sphere, draw another mox and play jace and pass. He drops a wire and wastes me. I uptap, jacestrom see and oath and pass. He plays a karn and passes. Eventually I get oath down after he has a killed jace. I oath in to demon but dont cant yag will. He plays another wire and starts to hit me with factorys. I eventually draw and orchard and time walk for the win.

My second round is Remora trygon with bobs.
I will the roll and open up with fastbond and gushes. I first turn tinker in to Blighsteel. He forces and I drop an oath. He refuses to play creatures as I dont yet have the orchard. Eventually I bait he sacks he mystic remora and I have a window to cast key, timevault and pass. He untaps in to time walk trygon predator but cant deal with the oath activation after. We have a counter war over hurkely recall but I spell Peirce he jace to keep it off the table and ride my 6/6 flyer to anti trygon victory.I board in my mind harnesses for topdeck tutors again and merchant scroll. He drops a quick bob. I get a jace on the table and we have a short standstill. Eventually he duresses me and sees I'v got not counters. He drops a fastbond, gushes a bunch and passes with goufs on the table. I cast another jace and cast two mindharness through counters for a gouf. This buys me enough time to find key vault and take all the turn.

Third round is another blue deck this time with snapcasters.
I keep a hand of 2xfetch, oath, lotus, walk, fastbond and force. He goes first plays a confidant and missteps my first turn fastbond. I drop lotus and and keep force up. He plays jace keeping mana open. I oath up blisteel. He fluster storms my time walk and I pass. I take 2 oath up deamon get will and force thought the will and win with that turn. Second game I mull to 6 with demon, ancestral, orchard, force, gush. He duresses me and I'm never really in the game. I lose to two dark confidant beating me down after not being able to ancestral in to an oath. He gains complete control with snapcaster and a mana drain as I stumble to find a second island. Third game he again duresses me but I'v got brainstorm to hind my oath. I drop and he keeps mana open signaling hurks. I oath in to blisteel and he bounces it. I pass leaving Pierce open and key in play. Blows up my key with an ancient grudge and drops jace. I oath in to demon get walk, kill jace and protect the demon the rest of the game. After this game he said he took out his confidants which I dont think is correct.

Round 4. Bant fish
He opens with pridmage and i have, gush, demonic, oath 3 land mox. I play demonic for walk go. He drops Eric and attacks for 3. I gush drop oath and walk. I end up with blisteel oath and a land on board and pass. He swords blisteel and kills oath. I end up losing after he drops a gouf and equips it with batterskull. I board in mind harnesses and the one tendrills. I open with orchard, oath, jace, 2xfetch, force, misstep. I oath up blisteel and mistep his natures claim. Third game he opens with stony grafters cage go. I play land go. He drops gouf and I an oath. He natures claims my oath but I'v got a Jace to bounce the gouf. Nobel hiarach pings away at jace and trygon come down. I end of turn tutor for fastbond. Gush twice, brainstorm, and hurks myself to tendrills for game.

Top 8
Slash Panther Stax
He wins the roll and I keep, mox, trop, fetch, misstep, oath, brainstorm, timevault. He drops first turn slash panther and chalice on 0.
I play fech go. He untaps plays a smokestack and R port. I brainstorm and play oath.He plays karn, I go to 8. I eventually oath demon walk blisteel.He stops attacking and eventually I can attack with blisteel for the win. Second game I board like usual and he plays smokestack go. I play land mox key go. He drops a lodestone and I can't deal. There was a point I demonic tutored for hurks but I'v got 0 permanents and cant do anthing after.He replays lodestone and wins. I open with lotus, jace, natures claim, fetch, orchard, Peirce, force.I drop jace go. He plays panther and I have to force. I jacestorm in to a land to keep claim up. He drops double sphere and wastes my orchard. I claim one and draw in to hurks and forces. I keep jace alive and eventually I hurks him to bounce his cage. I lock him out from playing creatures with oath till I can find tinker for blghisteel for the win.

Top 4
Dredge
I keep 2xoath, mox, perice, misstep, sea, fetch. I will the roll and drop oath go. He has an unmask and a calice. He attacks with icorids keeping his off the table till he flips a narcomeba and not therapies. I dont think he was playing with dread return. I am able to demon in to time walk for the win. I board in the cages for jace and spell Peirce's. I mull into demonic, yag will, mox, gush, fetch, 2xtrop. He opens with slow dedgeing a icorid and bloodgast. I demonic for fastbond and pass. He plays chalice, unmask attack go threatening death next turn. I drop fastbond gush drawing in to blanks and lose.
Third game I open with orchard oath pass. He natures claim and I lay jace. He attacks jace with bloodgasts. I draw cage bounce the gasts. He cant find an answer to cage in time as I oath into blighsteel.

Finals -Bant fish again. Same guy
I keep an hand with forcex2 misstep, jace, and 2 land n mox. He opens with Nobel hiarach and a turn two pridmeage. Misteph and force making tempo for jace. He wastes me and drops Eric to start drawing cards. I jace into key and am looking for vault with he plays stoney silence. He drops a trygon and gouf. I cant keep a oath on the table and lose. I board in my mind harness. I open with oath and he nature drops a cage. I respond back with misstep but he forces. Take damage from his pridmange and gouf till I find tinker. He swards me tinker but i gain enough life to live. I hurks his cage and oath in to demon and get yag will. I pass he swords again and attacks me. I mind harness his pridemage, kill the stoney silnce. I yag will and get key vault on the table eventually getting jace in play and win by decking him. Third game I open with gushes and fastbond but no oath. He drops cage and a gouf. I start take damage but find jace bouncing his trygon. He plays a stoney silence and wastes me locking my mana. I try to hurks at the end of turn him and cast tinker but he has the aven mindsliver so I lose to his army.

I get a tropical island for my efforts.
Overall it was a good tourney. Problems with the deck are that spell Pierce is not very good against the fish and stax decks. They are playing more and more creatures than it need to be replaced. I though mana drain would work but it doesnt fit in to the curve very will. Over all i would say that BUG fish and Bant are the worst matchups. Mystic remora is hard to play around thou it is getting less play now. Stoney silence is a really good against this deck because I cant bounce it with hurkyls. It may require playing chain or echoing truth. My changes right now would be -3 spell Peirce + 3 mana drain - 1 hurkels recall + one echoing truth. The board I like though Im not sure the 1 forest is needed. If you play one more fetch main you could cut a trop but I like having 3 main.

Props: Davis for having tons of nerds to play magic with
Slops: not having enough of these tournaments

Decklist

5 moxen
1 black lotus
1 mana crypt
1 fastbond
4 gush
4 force of will
4 mental misstep
4 oath of druids
3 spell peirce
1 ancestral
1 time walk
1 yagamoths will
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 merchant scroll
1 brainstorm
1 ponder
1 tinker
1 blightsteel
1 runescarred demon
1 voltaic key
1 time vault
2 jace
1 hurkyls recall
4 misty rainforest
1 scalding tarn
3 tropical island
2 underground sea
2 island
4 forbidden orchard

side
1 tendrils of agony
1 hurkyls recall
4 graftdiggers cage
1 forest
4 natures claim
4 mind harness