After a few hours of playtesting T2, and some unsuccessful trading endeavors, the tournament starts.

First round: I'm playing against a B/G LD deck with juggernauts ( ! ) (Side note: this deck would have been better if he had been lighter on the green, and used discard)

Game 1:

I win the die roll, and play a tundra. He strips it. I'm rather mana light, I play a brainstorm in response. I play a tropical island, he lays a swamp, cool no ritual or duress. I play a mishra, tap and play Oath of Druids. He mutters some, then next turn plays a bayou and ritual's out a juggernaut. Thank you very much. I get a spike weaver out to hold that jug off until morphling comes out to play. I dismantling blow one of his jugs with kicker and draw a edict and a mana drain. Game ends.

Game 2: (in goes teferi's response, out goes counterspell)

He goes first, strip mine...wonderful. I play scrubland as strip bait, he doesn’t take it... fine by me. He plays a wasteland next turn. SOB! I play tropical Island and sapphire. He strips the trop, I use teferi’s response and draw a mana drain. He strips the scrubland. ( He announced stripping both lands at once) I have 2 mana, he has zip.
He next rituals out an icequake, its mana drained.

" How many cards in your hand?"

"4"

*Plays Underground sea, and taps out minus the tropical.*

" Mindtwist you for four."

I eventually hard cast a morphling, and kill him.

Next round: Suicide black (Yummy)

He wins the roll, awesome.

Swamp ritual, carnophage, sarcomancy, unholy strength. Cute.

I go, tropical, pearl, oath of druids.

He plays another swamp, another ritual, mind twist for 3, I misdirection it. He causes me pain.

I oath, a feeder. Draw, play a sol ring and a tundra.

He goes, draws a edict and foolishly uses it. I gain 4 then take 6. I FoF at the end of turn.

I oath a weaver, and hold him off for a while. Morphling comes out, and spikes keep bouncing in and out of play. Zombie damage and Morphling win.

Game 2:

I'll make it short, I put out a COP: black and wait until Morphling makes a cameo, and win.

Round 3: Mono blue (Oh boy.)

Game 1:

I get mangled. Opening hand wasn’t too bad, 3 lands, a mox ruby, a dismantling blow, mana drain, and a swords.

First draw, land.
Second draw, land.
Third draw, land.
Fourth draw, NOT A LAND, a mox.
Firth draw land.

I am horribly out played and don’t even wait to see how quickly I died. I scoop. I couldn’t deal with the BtB who came out. Tried countering it, no love. He had FoW.

Game 2:

Must Be aggro (Out feeder, out zorb, in spirit of the night, and oath #4 )

I play a trop and a mox jet. He plays mox, mox, lotus, land, Morphling. I cast Oath of druids. He FoW. I FoW. He swears. Spirit of the night comes out and ends the match quickly, as he cat get enough mana to make him a 0/7 flier.

Game 3:

Longest match ever...

We play draw go for a while. He lets an oath sneak out. He tries casting a Morphling, I drain, he counters, I counter, he FoW, I FoW. He mutters. My morphling comes out on the drain mana. Morphling kill’s fast and I just hold cards in my hand as I can see my just waiting to mana drain something.

Next round: My friend Pat's LD deck with Abyss's, Hymns, Sinkholes, Mishra's, Waste Lands, War Beasts and Masticores.

Game 1:

I misdirection a hymn, play an oath. He plays a 'core, oath out a morphling then I mind twist the rest of his hand away.

Game 2:

He plays a swamp, ritual, warbeast. I play a sapphire, a tropical island. He attacks, plays a swamp and a sinkhole, I mana drain.

Next turn, I play a tundra, and sack the lotus, for 3 blue, tap the tundra for white and dismantling blow with kicker on the beast, land crippling him. I draw FoF and a sol ring, play the sol ring...blah blah get all sorts of cards, win with a morphling while he tries to recover from land loss.

Next round: Annoying kid who has a hard grasp on speaking clearly, and plays the same predictable deck to some degree of success. (read luck) Sub-optimal sligh. I’ve played against it enough to know he runs no wastelands, and runs ball lightnings. I ask if he’s a guru on mtgnews.

Game 1:

He plays a mountain, and a goblin lackey. (Oh yeah he doesn’t use pup’s either)
I play a tropical and I’m done. He plays another mountain, and attacks. Then plays a free flunky. He cast’s a Mogg fanatic and bolts me. I play a mishra and cast oath of druids. He plays another mountain, and plays a ball lightning, I FoW. He beats me for 5. I oath up a weaver. Fog the next turn, and he bolts it. I oath up a feeder. He attacks for 5, block the lacky, take 4. He incinerates me, bringing me to 4. I sack feeder and oath up a morphling, and hit a gaea’s blessing in the process. I swords his Fanatic, he pings me bringing me to 7. He plays a ball lightning, I mana drain. Next turn I FoF, play a zuran orb, beat him with morphling. He’s too out of steam.

Game 2: (He’ll side in pyroblasts and side out flunkies and probably the lackeys, so Ill side in ivory mask)

He plays Ruby, lotus, mountain, ball lightning, fanatic, lightning bolt. Ouch. I play Tundra, mox emerald, Mox pearl, sol ring and Oath. He untaps, incinerates me, and attacks for one. Flings the fanatic at me for one. I enlighten tutor at the end of turn for mask. Untap, play mask. He untaps and says go. I hard cast a feeder. He bolts, I sack. He casts a ball lightning, I swords it. I hard cast a morphling, no pyroblast…huh. He uses my oath! It gets him a mogg fanatic, after losing 20 or so cards. The rest of the game is anti-climatic. I attack a lot, make it untargetable a lot.

Store credit, I look in the case at the over priced t2 singles. I put it down on my credit slip, in the event he gets something good in someday.

Deck list? Sure.

2 Mishra's Factory
1 Spike Weaver
1 Morphling
1 Spike Feeder

3 Oath of Druids
2 Gaea's Blessing

4 Fact or Fiction
1 Sylvan Library

2 Counterspell
1 Misdirection
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain

1 Dismantling Blow
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Balance

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall

2 City of Brass
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Scrubland
3 Savannah
4 Tropical Island
4 Underground Sea
4 Tundra

SB:

1 Ivory Mask
1 Spirit of the Night
2 Chill
1 Vindicate
1 Oath of Druids
1 COP: red
1 COP: black
1 Teferi’s response
1 Counterspell
2 Jester’s caps
1 Triskelion
2 Arcane Lab