T2 Gro.

[Mogg]

It seems that Fatguy wanted me to post the deck I've been working on for the last month. Here's that deck, which I plan to play at regionals next Saturday (or a version thereof).

// Lands
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Breeding Pool
2 Snow-Covered Forest
3 Snow-Covered Island
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Horizon Canopy

// Creatures
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Street Wraith
4 Mystic Enforcer

// Spells
3 Mishra's Bauble
3 Search for Tomorrow
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Chromatic Star
4 Call of the Herd
4 Remand
3 Pact of Negation
1 Quicken
3 Repeal
3 Pongify

// Sideboard
SB: 1 Pact of Negation
SB: 3 Worship
SB: 4 Spell Snare
SB: 4 Condemn
SB: 3 Trickbind

So, play guys, make them big and turn them sideways. Occaisonally you do something to stop the other guy from stopping you.

Discuss.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

This is a fun deck but do to although the sb narco hate in the meta i dont see it as a contender i run a tempo ld version that works quite nicely :)

[Mogg]

I played this deck at Central CA regionals yesterday (first time I got to play with all the real cards :)). I have short match-up descriptions for what I played against. Or, you can skip to the end and see how I did. First, here’s the decklist I ran:

// Lands
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Breeding Pool
2 Snow-Covered Forest
3 Snow-Covered Island
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Horizon Canopy

// Creatures
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Street Wraith
4 Mystic Enforcer

// Spells
3 Mishra's Bauble
3 Search for Tomorrow
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Chromatic Star
4 Call of the Herd
4 Remand
3 Pact of Negation
3 Repeal
2 Pongify
2 Scout's Warning

// Sideboard
SB: 3 Worship
SB: 4 Riptide Pilferer
SB: 4 Trygon Predator
SB: 4 Sunlance

Match 1 (Dragonstorm):
Game 1: He stalls with lands and acceleration. I beat ftw.
Game 2: He goes off turn 4.
Game 3: I go for Riptide Pilferer beats. He tries to combo off after getting some mana on storage lands. I let two Rites resolve, then Remand his Seething Song. He replays it and I pact, leaving him with just Dragonstorm in hand and not enough mana to play it. I take it out on my next turn with Pilferer and after getting to untap again I play a Tarmogoyf and finish him off.
2-1

Match 2 (Project X):
Game 1: I mulligan to five and he beats me down with Hyppies and Hierarchs.
Game 2: I board out Pacts because I put him on being GB aggro. I boarded in the Sunlances, but he had Saffi to protect his Essence Warden and combo’d out.
0-2

Match 3 (Ghazi-Glare):
Game 1: This is one of the decks worst match-ups, so I use this game to get some horrible draws out of the way.
Game 2: Probably the low point in terms of my intelligence during this tournament. I was tired of constantly mulling in the last three games, so I kept a one-land hand with little action. I got beat up by Ghazi-Glare’s creatures, and a Glare that he got off of Glittering Wish stopped my one attempt to stabilize with a 6/6 Enforcer.
0-2

Match 4 (Dralnu):
Game 1: I flashed Tarmogoyf off a Scout’s Warning in response to him charging a Dreadship Reef. From that point on, I just kept up the pressure until his life total was zero. I don’t remember this game too well.
Game 2: He resolved two Damnations, which killed a Tarmogoyf and two Riptide Pilferers. After that, I played a Mystic Enforcer and pacted his third Damnation. A few swings with Enforcer was gg.
2-0

Match 5 (Boros):
Game 1: I played guys that were bigger than his and flew over with Mystic Enforcers.
Game 2: This is the only game in the entire tournament where I had Worships boarded in, as I played against a lot less aggro than expected. Anyway, I got down big goyfs and Enforcers with Worship. I Ponfigied an Elephant at one point in response to a hammer to keep me alive with Worship.
2-0

Match 6 (Korlash Control):
Game 1: He had to mulligan to five and actually rebuilt decently, but I won with two Enforcers against his Korlash.
Game 2: He hit me with a turn three persecute for green that took a Mystic Enforcer and two Trygons. When he had a pretty good board position with a 6/6 Korlash and I just had Pacts, I scooped so we could finish game three within the time limit.
Game 3: This was yet another instance of control trying to beat aggro by playing three Damnations. It just doesn’t work against a deck with Pact of Negation. Pact-protected Enforcers are really hard to kill, it turns out. Anyway, I won this game.
2-1

Match 7 (Izzetron):
Game 1: This match is basically a bye for me. His answers to Tarmogoyf and Mystic Enforcers are Repeals and seven-mana X spells. His life total goes 20, 15, 10, 5, 0, dead. When he was at 10, I remember he activated Factory (with tron mana) to block my Tarmogoyf, but I had the repeal for his token and then I played a second Tarmogoyf.
Game 2: Tarmogoyfs beat down again ftw.
2-0

Match 8 (Project X):
Game 1: This guy looks really surprised when he Castigates me on turn two (off a birds and a land) and sees and a handful of blue cards with no blue sources in play (a Terramorphic Expanse, though). He’s definitely not happy about the triple Remand, but he takes a Sleight. I draw into Sleight for Tarmogoyf, which I hold back for a turn so I can Remand a four-drop, and I remand Hierarch on his turn. Next turn I play Tarmogoyf with Remand backup. Then I play Mystic Enforcer with Remand backup.
Game 2: He Deathmarks my Tarmogoyf the turn after I play it and then Extirpates Tarmogoyf, but I’m able to put two 6/6 enforcers and an Elephant on the field that he can’t deal with.
2-0

So overall, I went 6-2 in matches and 12-6 in games. That was enough for 17th place out of 151. Not amazing, but not bad either. I was especially happy about the five game comeback I made after losing to a combination of mana problems and bad match-ups early on.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

Interesting, Hard to believe you only ran into one source of graveyard hate though lol
either way your deck performed far better then i had expected and i congratulate you.

[Mogg]

I usually boarded in the Trygons anyway, just to be safe.