Im posting wfain's DE report from the "BUG RatStill" thread.
Went 3-1 (w/ round 1 bye) in the DE tonight. I'll post my raw notes below, might be hard to follow but I think most of you will be able to figure it out.
Ratstill report
Round 1: bye
Round 2: blacklotust1, white eldrazi
Keep mm, ss, fluster, dt, da, pd, mv
Tomb thorn
Temple thorn
Karakas smasher
Dt for dismember
Wasteland on a mutavault, revoker on abandon hope
Draw vault, play dismember paying 2 life, stabilizing, then lose to random guys
G2 t1 mox mox waste, he plays plains, I play land, he plays tomb and displacer. Waste tomb, decay displacer, upkeep vamp for tireless tracker and cast
Revoker and thalia vs tireless
Decay revoker
Rat
Priest
Thorn
Tracker
Thorn, win w/ 2 trackers and rats against thalia, priest
G3, won, fow t1 tks mox top land into plague spitter killing thalia on t2, pack rat into standstill concession
Boarded mm, fluster, deep analysis, and 1 jtms out for nature’s claims, trackers, dreads, and spitter
Round 3: atog_215, dps
Keep wastex2, strip, quarter, lotus, force, standstill
Play lotus, wasteland
Opponent probe, delta
Strip mine
Delta
Delta, standstill
Mire
Quarter, target delta, crack for sea, waste sea,
Nothing
Muta, hand is waste, waste, fow, decay vs full grip 2 fetches in play
Swamp, dark rit, grid, I dtt keeping fow, standstill, force pitch force on grid, he ancestral, crypt, rit, dt, grid, led, fetch, rit, tendrils for 24
Bring in leyline, claims, labs, spitter, cut dismember, jtms, deep anal, crucible, decay, cruise
Keep leyline, claim, lotus, drs, ancestral, trop, bayou
Trop, recall, draw mm, top, saphire, play top sapphire lotus
Delta, fetch, sapphire, grid, probe
Top, draw fluster, claim grid, play drs
Probe, preordain, duress, I misstep
Top, wasteland underground sea, leave force on top w/ fluster in hand
Crypt, dt, I fluster
Top, draw lab, crack lotus for lab
Grid
Standstill
Force a twister, he conceded
G3 keep lotus, rat, drs, dt, delta, delta fluster
Probe, tank, sea, ritual, ritual, sol ring, dps, will, probe, rit, rit tendrils exactsies
pretty sure is correct to keep that hand, plan was to play lotus crack for bbb, play dt for arcane lab, play drs, leave up flusterstorm, make lab on t2
Round 4: i_b_true, grixis
Keep lotus, emerald, strip, fluster, standstil x2, jtms
Island, jet, strix
Lotus, strip, mox, play jtms w/ u floating, see fow, delta, cruise. Draw was wl
Ruby, yp, gets forced, preordain, volcanic
Waste both lands, +2 jtms putting dt on bottom
Tarn, probe, dack
Dt for pyroblast, kill jtms,
Play cruise, wl, dismember strix
Mm cabal, cruise, into gush into cabal
Draw waste, rat, waste his sea
Strix
Make a rat, trade w/ strix
Tarn, bstorm, sudden shock rat
Waste his volc, play sea
Probe, dack, pyro I brainstorm, he forces
Recall into delta, trop, dtt keep jet, decay, kill yp
Nothing
Draw decay
Chain draws in jtms, I decay sapphire
Draw nothing, he draws pyro
Nothing again lose
Board in spitter, tracker x2, out a force, vamp, rat, maybe I should expect leyline and cut the delve cards/deep anal too? Don’t have anything good to bring though
Keep, fluster, cruise, standstill, decay, spitter, delta, streip
Ruby, lotus, tarn
Lotus, spitter, standstill, forced
Attack some, eventually shocked
Cruise, force, fluster, drew crucible, tracker, fluster
Yp
Decay yp, drew dtt
Gush, probe, dack, steal my emerald
Tracker, delta
Cruise
Clue, standstill, force pyroblast, kill dack
He Strip mine sea
Win w/ tracker
Keep decayx2, walk, lotus, drs, swamp, delta
Sapphire, recall, jet, blind cabal on standstill, miss
Lotus gets forced, play drs gets mmed
Preordain, volc, lotus,
Walk and land drop
ruby
Land, jet, rat, opponent gushes, make a rat to play around sudden shock
Dack, loot,
Rat, decay dack
Yp,
Cruise, fluster paid for, swing, make a rat
Probe, therepy,
Yp can’t beat 5 rats
I win! 3-1! Plus 8 tickets, plus 30 playpoints and qp #35
Main deck was very good. I think Chalice would be great in here. SB was medium good. Plague Spitter was strong. Trackers were outrageously good. Might need another Arcane Lab. Maybe it is worth just punting the Oath matchup to make Storm a better matchup?