I need to add that I did not play against any graveyard decks (although 40% off the meta used the grave) and those surgicals were very bad against UW and jund and tilted my matchup to unfavorable G1 which was sad. After going 3-0 in the sealed I played this:
R4: Jund 1-2 loss (I needled a T1 hexdrinker instead of wrenn and six while my double confidant hand folded to that planeswalker)
R5: Infect: 2-1 win (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aG968KbS78&t=2701s starting from 30:00)
R6: UW: 1-2 loss: I double liliana discard to empty his hand for the win, he has a 2nd snapcastermage in hand and flashes it in killing my lili the turn after eventually losing me the game
R7: UW 1-2 loss: I lose trough needle (on baby teferi), bitterblossom, confi and lili. He somehow has every right card without even drawing (and going to 6). I never get to even attack with bitterblossom tokens, that is how bad it got. I eventually get sword in play and he gets his singleton detention sphere to take them off the board.
R8: Infect: 2-0 (or 2-1 not sure). Het mulls te 5 I discard his only creature and follow up with confi and lili no hand = no big creature.
Going 5-3 and ending 39th out of 228.
I wil change the deck returning the surgicals to sidebaord as well as the single maindeck force. I will return bloodghast to the main as well as 2 plague engineers. Besides that I will run snowlands and dead off winter (in the sideboard) against humans.
This weekend I will play the non-snow list as I did not have the time to collect the correct lands.
I recently piloted this deck in the Red Bull Untapped qualifier in Belgium.
3 inquisition of kozilek
4 thoughtseize
4 surgical extraction
4 dark confidant
3 gatekeeper of malakir
3 Gifted aetherborn
3 bitterblossom
3 liliana of the veil
2 phyrexian obliterator
2 gray merchant of asphodel
4 vampire nighthawk
2 sword of light and shadow
1 force of despair
3 Polluted delta
4 Bloodstained mire
13 swamp
2 Force of despair
2 pithing needle
1 ravenous trap
1 faerie macabre
2 plague engineer
3 bloodghast
4 Damping sphere
I need to add that I did not play against any graveyard decks (although 40% off the meta used the grave) and those surgicals were very bad against UW and jund and tilted my matchup to unfavorable G1 which was sad. After going 3-0 in the sealed I played this:
R4: Jund 1-2 loss (I needled a T1 hexdrinker instead of wrenn and six while my double confidant hand folded to that planeswalker)
R5: Infect: 2-1 win (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aG968KbS78&t=2701s starting from 30:00)
R6: UW: 1-2 loss: I double liliana discard to empty his hand for the win, he has a 2nd snapcastermage in hand and flashes it in killing my lili the turn after eventually losing me the game
R7: UW 1-2 loss: I lose trough needle (on baby teferi), bitterblossom, confi and lili. He somehow has every right card without even drawing (and going to 6). I never get to even attack with bitterblossom tokens, that is how bad it got. I eventually get sword in play and he gets his singleton detention sphere to take them off the board.
R8: Infect: 2-0 (or 2-1 not sure). Het mulls te 5 I discard his only creature and follow up with confi and lili no hand = no big creature.
Going 5-3 and ending 39th out of 228.
I wil change the deck returning the surgicals to sidebaord as well as the single maindeck force. I will return bloodghast to the main as well as 2 plague engineers. Besides that I will run snowlands and dead off winter (in the sideboard) against humans.
This weekend I will play the non-snow list as I did not have the time to collect the correct lands.