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So here's how things went:

Match 1 vs Connor, Cephalid Breakfast

Game 1: He had a T2 Stoneforge Mystic to fetch the Shuko, and a turn 3 Illusionist. The triggers happened and he won via Thassa's Oracle. 

Game 2: I was able to get out a Buccaneer while he set up, and got him down to 10, but knowing he had an Illusionist in hand, I tapped out to Reforge the Soul, as I had one card in hand.

He discarded the illusionist, but drew into another one and that was it.

Match 2 vs Shawn on D&T

Game 1: Samwise was used to recur Wasteland and take care of my mana base in short order. Though I was able to use Bowmasters to take out a Thalia and a Sam, I didn’t have removal for the Stoneforge Mystic that brought Kaldra Compleat into play, nor a response for the Karakas bouncing my Tourach.

Game 2: I played two Burning Inquiries which lead to me drawing 11 of my 22 lands.

Things did not go well after that.

Match 3 vs Ben on Sharkstill

Game 1: My deck did the thing! I had Buccaneer out and with a wheel effect, did enough damage to win.

Game 2: When he cast The Wandering Emperor, I realized I had sideboarded incorrectly; he had too many basic lands for Blood Moon to be relevant. The moon took me off BB which I needed for multiple cards in hand, and that was enough for him to take the edge.

Game 3: I made a huge mistake on turn 4, when I had a Plague Engineer out on Servo to keep the Retrofitter Foundry in check. I swing in, not realizing that he had enough mana to make a 2/2 Construct token via Urza's Saga for us to trade.

“Well, I’ll just draw another!”

I did not draw another.

My last game was against Matt, who is a buddy I play with frequently. He runs a Parfait variant that he's been working on for years so I know the matchup well.

In the first game he was able to create all the construct tokens and won.  

So I just brought in four Meltdowns and proceeded to do one-sided boardwipes when I could. Unfortunately, it still took me a long time to get there and while I won that game, we had one minute to play a third and tied. 

What did I learn?

First; four copies of Reforge the Soul are too many. I'll be cutting one, since this isn't a card I want to see in my opening grip.

Second, as much as I like Waste Not, I just don't know that I can spend time setting up like that. Against non-Blue prison style decks, sure but there are just better things to be doing and I should find them. Because there are a lot of Blue decks on Fridays. 

Third, it might be worth incorporating Wastelands into this deck. As a two color deck, the drawback should be minimal. Similarly, Geiger Reach Sanitarium might have a place.

Finally, I'm not certain Blood Moon is not the answer I need in the sideboard. In all of my matchups, graveyard removal would've been just as, if not more useful. Certainly, the Dauthi Voidwalkers represented issues when they were out.