Red Leyline and the Green Landfall deck have so far been the most uncomfortable matchups I faced, racing them is hard and having large blockers is not very useful.

Bat should help there too, though

2-1 Dimir, 1-0 Izzet Lessons, 1-0 Jeskai, 1-0 Simic, 1-0 Boros Firebenders Ascension aggro, 1-0 Leyline and 0-1 Selesnya Landfall in the tournament overall.

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Beat 4 Lurrus decks (Esper and UB), 2 mirrors, Bazaar Hollow One and Sultai Midrange, lost to Shops in the swiss and UB Lurrus in top 8

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Just realized I forgot to attach the list. Few times, I was a removal spell short, so I would play one more Reliquary over either the maindeck Elspeth or the Walker

Don't think you can do any better vs Izzet than this, and the Dimir match has felt pretty decent since I switched to Tomes. Could sideboard more cards for it, if it's a 2 deck format
I like the matchup vs stock UW lists, hard for them to keep up in card advantage, and SB Beatdown plan not impressive

After playing more I think I like the tome version over Annex, it plays the draw go game a lot better. Annex wants the game to end at some point, and I was dying yo it despite 4 Sanctuary. Fountainport is a big get too

Cards line up really well vs Izzet, and Ketramose both gets online quickly and is hard to deal with

I didn't have Annex Soulstone in my original build, but the mana works well enough for it and Charm. The SB needs a bit of tuning, felt that there were redundant cards.

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Prowess matchup used to be really good, but is a little worse with Cage not hitting Talent, might be time for a few High Noons in SB, to take advantage of it dodging Cage. The Exorcises in the SB were not amazing and can be replaced.

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I feel like the logical step in the future for the techbros is selling AI as the ideal autocract.

Skynet is gonna take over not because it goes rogue, but because that's what it is designed to do, and a large percentage of the population will cheer it on

First two trainers I cast whiffed, but they were good overall. Didn't play vs Dimir so didn't end up missing maindeck voicd

I am excited to see if Terra, Magical Adept is what takes Roots to the next level. The deck seemed pretty good to me already, just missing a piece

That was not his political objective after all

He forgets Clausewitz, because you can't look at the decisiveness of battles without relating them to the political objectives of the states.

Your example of The Seven Years War is excellent, because Frederick didn't need to have his victories destroy Austria, France or Russia utterly.