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P2P3 - I think Pinger is better in BR and I already have a Thunder.
P2P4 - I could take Skels here, but I went for diversity.

1 Ridge Rannet
1 Blood Cultist
1 Bull Cerodon
1 Soul's Fire
2 Hissing Iguanar
1 Viscera Dragger
1 Dragon Fodder
1 Thorn-Thrash Viashino
1 Skeletonize
1 Obelisk of Naya
1 Archdemon of Unx
1 Undead Leotau
1 Scourge Devil
1 Corpse Connoisseur
2 Vithian Stinger
1 Skeletal Kathari
1 Bloodpyre Elemental
1 Onyx Goblet
1 Resounding Thunder
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Incurable Ogre
6 Swamp
9 Mountain
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Crumbling Necropolis

Sideboard
1 Soul's Grace
1 Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
1 Welkin Guide
1 Sphinx's Herald
1 Dragon's Herald
1 Mountain
1 Glaze Fiend
1 Deathgreeter
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Forest
1 Kederekt Creeper
1 Dreg Reaver
1 Lightning Talons
1 Resounding Scream
1 Island
1 Obelisk of Esper
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Bloodthorn Taunter
1 Behemoth's Herald

I could've splashed the Creeper by running Obelisk of Esper along with the two Tri-Lands. Instead I decided to run Obelisk of Naya to enable cycling on Resounding Thunder and also Trample on Thorn-Thrash Viashino. I also ran Onyx Goblet in place of the Creeper because I felt it'd be strong with Iguanars and Stingers.

Round 1 I played against Bant. Game 1 he missed a fourth land drop and I tore him up with Blood Cultist, Hissing Iguanar and removal. Connoisseur for Scourge Devil finished him off. Game 2 was a close race between his fliers and my removal and he ripped Stoic Angel on one of the last turns to deal the final three damage before I killed him. Game 3 I played a Stinger and then Skeletonized his Stoic Angel on turn 4. After that I made two Iguanars and another pinger and although his Kiss of the Amesha made the game drag on a bit, I eventually combo killed him by sacrificing my entire side to Thorn-Thrash Viashino.

Round 2 was against 5c Obelisk Control. Game 1 I played pretty terribly and forgot that I couldn't sacrifice Corpse Connoisseur to Archdemon of Unx. I've had Archdemon so many times and almost never had it in play with only one other guy that I totally forgot about the Zombie restriction on non-token cards. Anyway, what happened was that I played Archdemon with Connoisseur as my only other guy. My opponent also apparently didn't realize what happened because he attacked his Ridge Rannet into my soon-to-be-dead Archdemon. Luckily for him, he was at 11 life, and I forgot about the Zombie restriction and I re-punted by not blocking. Game 2 was a blowout when he played turn 2 Necrogenesis and then killed literally everything I played, and finished me with tokens and Vein Drinker.

Until Monday...

Nick Eisel