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Back into the breach with a BW Scam take. This time with upgrades from last time and a little more focus maindeck: Elite Spellbinders for their evasion, and Hymn to Tourach to help reinforce the Grief line of play.

Match 1 vs Dravyen on UR Delver

Game 1: I had a great curve with Thalia, Anguished Unmaking and then a kicked Tourach.

It didn’t matter: Brainstorm and Ponder did their thing, and before I was ready I was facing down a Delver and a DRC.

Game 2: I thought the plan was good: Spirit of the Labyrinth and Sudden Edict. The Spirit kept him in check, but I drew zero removal, and soon had a 5/5 Murktide to face down. Since I couldn't take the Murktide out, well....

In between games, the head judge offered to play a couple rounds with me-and hey, practice is good! So I said yes and matched against Jacob's Nic Fit deck.

I lost those games. But practice is still good! 

Match 2 vs Bill on UG Omnitell

Game 1: I had a Grief get countered and brought it back with Exhume. Then I was able to use Elite Spellbinder to keep him off his Show & Tell. I had him down to six, which was great! But he drew Uro and was able to climb out of range. Then he got enough mana to cast the Show & Tell, leading into an Emrakul and that was it.

Game 2: Very similar start, except I got the Spellbinder in off a Show & Tell and took the Dress Down instead of the Intuition. Because his reveal was Omnicience, leading to Emrakul which I Sudden Edict’d.

Huzza! My plan is working!

But his next turn had him top deck another Emrakul. So. Um…..

Yeah, I died.

Then I got the bye and I figured: this is the Universe telling you to go home. So I went home at 0-4. 

That was a pretty rough night for a couple reasons but most of them had to do with me being alone to sit with my losses each time. My opponents were all pleasant to nice and I can't say I had a bad time. 

But not winning even a game is hard. And I've lost every time I've gone. Under these circumstances, it can be challenging to remember that I'm playing untested, weird stuff and that comes with failing a bunch. That's OK! 

It also means that I need to take some time to take care of my own mental health under those circumstances, because I don't want to be miserable to play against. It is difficult to take a beating each time. That's just the facts. I'm signing up for the beating though so...well, it's on me.

However, it has me thinking about something else, which I'll get to next time.