4-1-1 with GWB at TNLG in Nashville

I placed 2/11 at Donnie's today with this list:

4 Mother of Runes
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Qasali Pridemage
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Serra Avenger
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Thoughtseize
4 Aether Vial
2 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Windswept Heath
3 Marsh Flats
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Karakas
3 Wasteland
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Swamp
2 Savannah
2 Bayou
2 Scrubland

SB:
2 Path to Exile
2 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Faerie Macabre
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Krosan Grip
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Umezawa's Jitte

I beat Reanimator three times (!) as well as Merfolk and lost to New Horizons in the finals. There was a round four ID against U/W tempo in there because that match-up seemed unfun for both of us.

Some thoughts on the cards:

- Mother of Runes is fantastic, especially in conjunction with Basilisk Collar. I took four or five hits from a Sphinx of the Steel Wind by racing it with a Collared Goyf protected by Mom, and then lived long enough to find mana to cast and equip Serra Avenger and further top-deck Swords to Plowshares.
- Maelstrom Pulse didn't show up that often, but I did kill two massive Terravores with one against New Horizons, which was cool. Plus I like not having all my removal in one color, so I can get around both Iona naming White and the pro-green on Sphinx.
- I only got to Wastelock Reanimator via Knight of the Reliquary once, and then also naturally in the above-mentioned game involving the Collar, which was against Eli, plus also ridiculous.
- Be it resolved that sticking Dark Confidant just rules basically always.
- Do not board out Gaddock Teeg against Merfolk; they board in Submerge. Also, did you realize you can Submerge a motherfucker in response to its controller cracking a fetchland? Lucas took me to school on that one.
- Awkward mana hurt me a few times against New Horizons. So did my inability to remain focused after five rounds of Magic when I'm late for a date. Anyway to shore up that match-up probably I should add a second plains, and/or cut a Bayou for the third Savannah.

Bottom line, for my trouble I won 14 packs of WWK (Jace lottery, haven't opened 'em yet) plus a Grindstone and All Is Dust. Between that and the Sinkhole and other random level-up and foil jank I picked up for my cube off Blake last night in exchange for a buncha dumb planeswalkers I never touch, I'm actually out of cards to covet right now, which is very strange... Must be time for a new set to come out.

Oh, and by the way... I feel fat.

-Dan