I played the deck at FNM tonight, and it was a lot of fun. I went 2-2-0 with a couple of epic games, both long and short.
Started off game 1 against U/W tokens/spirits with a splash of black, drawing the wrong thing every turn. I figured needed to mullligan agressively to grab my coating, but even in round two I failed to draw what I needed and got overrun by a gazillion tokens, went 0-2-0 game 1.
After the game we played a couple of casual games to test further, and ofcourse, as Murphy's Law dictates, I drew my answers in those games. I could hold off double Lingering Souls by keeping his black sources at bay, sided in Arc Trail versus tokens. Generally he didn't play many permanents so I could blast some lands, and between him flying over me with 1/1s and me dropping my Manic Vandal and such there were a couple of exciting beatdown matches. Went 2-1-0 in the casual games, but ofc my 0-2-0 was official. Bad, bad luck.
Game 2 was hilarious! I was playing a U/G Splinterfright self-mill deck with a splash of black for Spider Spawning. Basically every big threat he played (Splinterfrights, Boneyard Wurms, Ghoultrees) all met a swift artificed death in my Liquimetal Coating. Played out game 1 by milling through his entire library and just keeping his Black at bay so he couldn't Spider Spawning. Hilarious game and I'm still lauging about it. Went 2-0-0
Game 3 was versus Esper control, which was a very close deal turn one. Again he didn't drop many permanents, so I could target some lands, but when he started playing threats like Liliana of the Veil I had to trash her and he could gain some lands. When up to 4 he could play basically anything. Again I got swarmed by some Lingering Souls game one. I need more Whipflare or such in SB to deal with token decks. (or Ratchet Bomb if I can ever get my hands obn some)
Round two was incredibly short. He Mana Leaked my Liquimetal Coating and followed up with a Surgical Extraction. I had sided in my Autumn's Veil, but had none in hand so that was game.
I went 0-2-0 here, but I could've/should've gone 1-2-0 at least, had I had more answers to his tokens.
All in all it was a very fun night of games and even tho I didn't get to the prizes, I got some valuable (sideboard) ideas/advice out of it, and some give-away goodie cards.
It's still a very fun deck that I'd suggest to everyone. Nobody was prepared for this deck idea! Nobody had a clue what to do with it when it went off! If you want to bring a slightly cruel, but still fun, rogue deck idea to your FNM I would recommend playing this a lot.
