MTG Salvation

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Took the following list to a $1.5k even yesterday with about 50 or so people at the event.

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4 Scalding Tarn 4 Polluted Delta 3 Island 1 Mountain 1 Swamp 2 Steam Vents 1 Watery Grave 1 Blood Crypt 1 Darkslick Shores 4 Delver of Secrets 3 Young Pyromaner 3 Snapcaster Mage 3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 1 Gurmag Angler	4 Lightning Bolt 4 Serum Visions 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Thought Scour 1 Spell Snare 1 Deprive 2 Remand 2 Mana Leak 1 Kolaghan's Command 2 Terminate 2 Electrolyze 1 Murderous Cut	Sideboard 1 Olivia Voldaren 1 Kolaghan's Command 2 Blood Moon 2 Flashfreeze 1 Spell Pierce 1 Slaughter Games 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Dispel 2 Rending Volley 1 Rakdos Charm 2 Dragon's Claw

Round 1 vs Splinter Twin (1-2)
As per usual with me and playing in events, I whiff this match.
G1: Opponent mulligans to 5 and is never able to find an answer for Tasigur and a couple of flipped Delvers
G2: I keep a questionable 1 lander and get punished for it.
G3: This is the game that I punted the hardest I have a single bolt in hand, and draw a Slaughter Games. Instead of fetching for a second red source, I opt for a basic Island. I eventually lose the game with double bolt in hand, and my opponent at 6 life with only 1 red source among my lands.

Round 2 vs BG Rock (2-1)
G1: Goes as you would imagine. 1 for 1's me until I have nothing left and he eventually wins the games off the back of Treetop Village
G2: Opponent mulligans to 5, and a turn 3 Blood Moon finishes this game really quickly.
G3: I manage to keep his board clear of cards for a long time, killing any creature and countering whatever I can. Eventually, he lands a Batterskull to face off against my Tasigur. He attacks the germ into my Tasigur to gain some extra life. I swing back the next turn with Tasigur to put him onto a lethal attack the next turn. I then cast a defensive Olivia Voldaren, as he has a Treetop Village in play on the other side of the board. At this point, I am tapped out, neither of us have cards in hand. I have lethal next turn. He does not have enough mana to activate and equip his manland with the Batterskull. Draws an Inquisition of Kozilek off of the top and concedes the game.

Round 3 vs 4-Color Mentor (1-2)
G1: He is able to flood the board with Young Pyromancer and Monastery Mentor tokens and I am unable to answer them all.
G2: This time, I manage to kill off all of his token generating creatures before they can gain him a huge advantage. Once his board was clear and he no longer had cards in his hand, the game was locked for me.
G3: I flood out super hard this game, and cannot keep up with his Mentor tokens, unfortunately. 8 out of 10 of my draws were lands after an opener with 4 lands, 3 being fetches.

Round 4 vs 4-Color Jeskai Asendancy Combo (2-1)
G1: He does his combo thing and I am unable to flip 3 Delvers for 5 turns.
G2: Slaughter Games naming Jeskai Ascendancy locks out this game for me.
G3: My opponent is able to resolve 2 Jeskai Ascendancy's, but is unable to do anything with them, as I beat down on him with Tasigur and Young Pyromancer tokens.

Round 5 vs Abzan Liege (2-0)
G1: This was the most intense game of MTG I have played in a long time. My opponent beautifully curves out with T1 BoP, T2 Voice of Resurgence, T3 Kitchen Finks, T4 Siege Rhino. I eventually kill the VoR off, leaving him with 2 Elemental tokens, and opening him up to resolving a Lingering Souls and flashback. I have to trade 5 YP tokens and a Snapcaster Mage for 1 of the elementals, and terminated the other one. Somehow, I manage to stabilize the game with me being at 1 life, and my opponent at 18. I begin to bear down on him with more and more Snapcasters, and Young Pyromancers. The best play in this game was my opponent blocking a YP token with a Wilt-Leaf Liege, and me casting Kolaghan's Command to shoot him for 2, return Snapcaster to my hand, Snapcaster, flashback Lightning Bolt to kill the Liege after it took the 1 from a token.
G2: Bolted every mana dork, countered every other spell, until I lock him out of the game with a Blood Moon.

Round 6 vs Jund (2-1)
G1: Similarly to the BG Rock match earlier in the day, my opponent grinds me out of game 1.
G2: Keeping his board clear and him stumbling on mana allowed me to resolve a Blood Moon to lock him out of most of his spells
G3: Turn 2 Tasigur and a lot of counterspells allow me to out tempo my opponent out of the game.

I ended this event 4-2, finishing in 14th place. Not bad for my first time piloting this deck. I'll be at another 4 round event today and will give a report later tonight.