{"ops":[{"insert":"A deck attempting to combine land utility with prowess/tempo advantage.\nLots of stuff with good words printed on them, to try and get ahead while performing the many actions of a magic game.\nEdit 18/01/2024: It's basically just a value pile at this point, but it still has utility from both the aforementioned, though there's no printed Prowess anymore. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Game log:"},{"insert":"\nAfter some some playtesting against actual decks on 12/01/2024, I discovered Moonshine is a rough matchup for me, but Timewalk control is fine; the timewalk loss boiling down to a fatal play. The day overall went Bye, 1-2, 1-2, so it was a decent result for an entirely experimental list!\nIn the Moonshine game however, I did discover some neat tech, with an Omnath and Tireless Provisioner on board:\n2 spells had been Elite Spellbinder'd - I wanna cast them both."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Crop rotation drawn off an Omnath, 2 mana available."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pass the turn."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"In upkeep, cro-ro into a fetch."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Fetch for something. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"6 mana available, plus a new untapped land, casting both spells, and up 4 life to survive their attack."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"There was a small period of time where Fastbond was being considered, but after playing around with Uro, and some Uro + Karakas during the Timewalk game, I think I'm much happier with the current points. \n\nOn the 17/01/2024, I went to "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"the location "},{"insert":"(a mate's business) after hours and a few of us did some testing.\nDuring testing I firmly discovered that Moonshine, and any Rx aggro is my silver bullet; I was able to take a number of games against GW token Combo..? Aggro..? Both pre and post sideboard. \nPlaying against Timewalk again, I made some of the same mistakes as before; losing because I panicked, or thought I was safe. The lines in Timewalk require "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"really "},{"insert":"good intuition to see, because so little information is available at face value. But all the times I lost, they were times I could've not done that, so it's a learning experience, really. \nWith Fury and Solitude now in, the deck is also considerably stronger, and a few of the wasteful creatures; Soul of Windgrace, Narset, Enlightened Exile are out, in place of them, and other good stuff too, such as Aragorn, King of Gondor.\n\nIn the lead up to CanCon, I've been doing various testing against a couple mates, who have also been bashing their decks against mine to see what sticks.\nAs a result of all of this, the deck has essentially just become a value pile; lots of good cards with good words, and that eventually overwhelms my opponents. \nKroxa has been replaced with Sevinne's Reclamation due to the Escape being difficult to achieve, Tireless Provisioner has been replaced with Lotus Cobra, so that Nissa doesn't have any dead hits, and the mana base has been refined a little more, by replacing Hallowed Fountain with Sacred Foundry. I'm looking at potentially putting in the domain counterspell as well, but what I cut for it, I'm not sure.\n\nThe day before the CanCon National 7 Point Highlander tournament (26/01) I replaced Territorial Kavu with the Miracle, \"Triumph of Saint Katherine\" which I think was a good choice. I got to make use of some pretty cool tech as a result of it. \nAt Cancon, I was doing well in the pre-lunch games; 1-1-1, which is well for me, considering I'm not the greatest. \nPost lunch, I get pretty well swept by Blue Moon and general control, until the last 2 rounds. \nMy final score was 3-4-1. As an 8 point list, I reckon I did okay, but in general, my greatest weaknesses were correctly identifying my colour to fetch for, and my timing - I believe tapping out is okay at times, but it seems I always chose the worst times to do so, whether because I was a bit mana screwed, or behind on board state. Reassessing what I use my points for may be an idea, or moving more towards specifically Temur, splashing white, but not 100% sure.\nIt was a great day though, and we even had one of our locals make top 16, scoring 6-2 with a walks variant of what is conceptually the same as my list.\n\n13/02/2024 - Considering I went 0-3 to my uncle's 5 point Red Deck Wins this past weekend, I'm thinking of re-allocating the points of this deck, and instead pivoting into a 4 colour value backbone, with a sneak and show win con; value piles are great and all, but when my only way to win is having creatures on board, that becomes a lot weaker against removal heavy decks.\n\n19/02/2024 - Tested the deck for the first time with the Sneak and Show list. It managed to break even in 4 games against Moonshine. I feel like I need more dorks, but otherwise it felt good to have outs when I needed them, and a good win-con.\n\n23/02/2024 - Tonight is the first proper 7 Point FNM since the new version of the deck was incepted, so it'll be exciting to see how it performs! But admittedly, the consistency is still abysmal, so not too hopeful for any kind of consistency. I'm expecting to crush Breach + Brain Freeze, and potentially beat RDW and Moonshine, but control and Walks still seem a bit much for me. Guess we'll see!\n\n26/02/2024 - Reporting in! Friday night was rather good. I played 3 rounds. My opponents, were Omnath Walks, Obscur-acle (Obscure Thoracle), and 8 Point Bots respectively.\nRound 1, I lost to Walks rather pathetically and quickly.\nRound 2, I beat Thoracle 2-1. First game I lost as I didn't have any of my interaction to remove their combo, nor did I really know the combo at first. Game 2, I won by beating down with my smaller value dudes before they could find their interaction or combo, and game 3 was similar, but muuuch closer. They were on 2 life when they attempted the combo, and if it weren't for Soul Guide Lantern drawing me into Endurance, I was a goner. \nRound 3, I beat Bots 2-1, as game 1 he ramped into Mycosynth Karn. Game 2, he attempted Myco-carn once again, but I responded to the activation with Lightning Helix to make Myscosynth much less useful. From there, it was simply beat down.\nGame 3, it was a bit of a landslide victory on my end - I kept a hand full of hate. Force of Vigor on his turn 1 to destroy his Sol Ring and Shadowspear, then Mana Leak on turn 2 to counter his Mana Vault. From there, it was just a slow beat down, with Yorion, and a scammed Solitude.\nSo overall, not bad! Questing Druid stole Atraxa and Sneak Attack twice in a row, which felt pretty bad, as nice as the card access was, so I'm tempted to replace it with Faithless Looting and Tishana's Tide Binder, but admittedly, I don't know what else I would cut to do so. It'd also be one less target for Natural Order, so it's something I'll have to deliberate on more.\n\n18/03/2024 - Checking in! The Yorion line has been removed. There isn't enough payoffs to justify it. If I'd had Ilharg, and maybe Arni Metalbrow, and in general more \"Until end of turn\" effects, it'd be more worth it, but the inability to find interaction was simply too much of a downside. This change has been in place for a while now, so I am now investigating a sideboard philosophy change, which enables changing the main plan of the deck depending on the matchup, with some additional hate for prevalent decks that are too strong to beat without it.\nI'm looking forward to testing it this Friday, and seeing how it handles its worse matchups. It did better against Moonshine than previous, pre-sideboard, so in theory the post sideboard should be an even harder match for my opponent. \n\n02/04/2024 - With the Easter long weekend just past, I figured I should report performance at Chromatic Games that weekend. \nRound 1, I lost against a local player who was running Abzan Initiative - lots of removal, graveyard hate, plus a stronger game plan were a bit much for my value to play through. On top of this, Abzan are colours I don't have hate for, so I should look into fixing that; Skylasher may go back in in that matchup as a pro-ub?\nRound 2, I genuinely cannot remember for the life of me. Bluemoon? \nRound 3 was against some expensive cards in 2-3 colours, but the gameplan either wasn't particularly obvious, or just all that good. It was pretty landslide my way both games, but the banter was fun. Sneak and Show payed off really well too, with a Worldspine netting me 15 more life.\nRound 4 was against Azorius Hard control, which was a bit of a grind (as it took him a while to find his win in game 1), but I managed to take game 2 with good sideboarding and some sneak and show he couldn't answer, and I likely would've had game 3 too had we gone to turns a little later. However, as he was going to drop, he very kindly conceded. \nRound 5 was against another deck that didn't particularly stand out to me, but I remember it having cool tech/being funky. I won that one too, primarily thanks to value from memory.\nRound 6 I punted really hard and lost 2 games I should've been relatively secure in, after he punted game 1 with a bad keep.\nOverall, the Sideboard felt good, and my sideboarding decisions were pretty on point. I likely could've played around my opponents a little more smartly, but I think by the end I was making mostly correct decisions (until I punted games 2 and 3 of round 6.) My uncle also did surprisingly well, for his first time playing a 7 Point event!\n\n02/05/2024 - Mana Clash report and deck changes since\nAt Mana Clash, an annual mini-magic fest, the \"7 Point International Tournament\" was held. It was a total of 140 something players, ranging from those just trying out the format, community members, known faces, and entrenched veterans. \nIt was an overall very fun day, but the deck unfortunately felt pretty disappointing. My overall for the day was 2-5-1, with the majority of my matchups being Izzet-tempo/Blue moon, which I have thus mostly forgotten. They were fun and banter filled, but very same-ish, and with the deck feeling as bad as it did, I considered dropping (but decided against it.)\n\nRound 1"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":"\nA conceptual mirror. Golgari (splashing blue) Natural Order, with Strip'/Waste' and Wrenn and Six to keep tempo going his way while trying for the win. It was a reserve list deck, as most were, with Gaea's Cradle as a bit of extra spice, and a good Cro-Ro target.\nIn game 1, he Natural Ordered a bit faster than I could, finding an Atraxa, which I fortunately had the removal for. Archdruid's Charm helped the win, finding Gaea's Cradle to hard-cast a Deathclaw. ETB Destroy a permanent is pretty good. I had a decent board state, but by making the Deathclaw Monstrous, he ate another permanent and swung for the kill. \nGame 2, I hit my Sneak and Show stuff faster, while also just having more threats. With a hard-cast Niv Reborn, and a Show and Tell'd Atraxa, there wasn't much he could do. The round ended just as our second game did, and so it was a draw. A fun game, seeing something I hadn't before, and playing against a nice opponent!\nRounds 2 and 3 weren't particularly memorable; Izzet tempo/Blue moon beat me to death. The usual. \nIt was then lunch, which I was almost late back from, but an ever so kind judge who was also a little late back from lunch (who we ran into at the café) gave us a little extra time, not that we ended up needing it.\nRound 4\nAnother Izzet Tempo deck, but likely on a bit of a tighter budget, with some potentially not amazing plays (trading a Third Path Iconoclast a dork is never worth), and some bad luck on the draw. Those factors added up, and my deck operating as intended for once (with Niv hitting more than 1 card!!) it was a landslide victory my way. It felt a little bad, as we had spoken at the above mentioned café, and I even joked about matching against each other. \nI think he learned from the games we played though, which is good, and hopefully some of the limits of the deck too. This was the first actual win of the day.\nRound 5 was another Blue moon deck. What can you do.\nRound 6\nI was up against a Jeskai control list, which thoroughly did both of those things, as it was designed to. (more to report, just getting back to work. Will update later)\n\n\nThis list is for the format \"Australian Highlander\" a.k.a 7 Point Highlander. \nIt is a non-Reserve List deck, and therefore has been granted the additional point for accessibility. \n"}]}