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Game 1 he keeps a dubious hand, gets screwed out of B and loses.
Game 2 I flood slightly (about 50/50 in lands/spells for most of the game) but counter something with Suspicions for a bunch of draws over the next turns, and Wretched Gryff + Jace's Scrutiny let me stop his Brazen Wolves and 3/2s. When Docent comes out, Spreading Flames remove him.
Thing is, while flooded I only had 2 mountains, and spent something like 6-7 turns waiting for a 3rd one to remove both his 3/2s with a Smoldering Werewolf + Dual Shot combo which'd let me swing against his empty board (I'm on 8 life or something so I take it very slowly). The turn before I draw said mountain (something like 23 cards in), he plays Bedlam Reveler and gives his Foulbloods the delirum buff by discarding a land. Aww.
Outcast + Smoldering (transformed to dodge Dead Weight) + a blocking Gryff (can't hit much because Dead Weight on him too) are still bigger than his board so he concedes.

Game 1 has me with a dominating board position, and Confirm Suspicions in hand after playing the Docent (and a human token) vs an empty board. However, when he only drops Thraben Standard-Bearer on 8 life, leaving 4 mana open and with several cards in hand, I'm afraid to attack because of Blessed Alliance and Silverstrike (this player's blown me out with Silverstrike a couple times already) so I sit back hoping to pick up a couple spells to flip Docent and win with the flying wizards instead.
I still play Condemned Killer and let it flip over the next two turns, and when I attack with it he starts binning lands to chump with tokens, leaving mana open. This could be a sign that he doesn't have removal and I could swing with everything and win in 2 turns, but I'm still paranoid about that open mana ("he's binning lands and chumping to bait me, then blows me out"), so I stay on the "draw spells" plan.
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Then I proceed to draw 6 lands in a row followed by Turn Aside (could flip, useless if he doesn't cast a target tho). Meanwhile my opponent starts getting a board, with Sigardian Priest, Extricator of Sin (and Delirium), Dawn Gryff and Lunarch Mantle on the Standard-Bearer so he can actually block if I don't get my Scrutiny, etc. and it's actually super close and if he kills my Docent he's way ahead!
I'm at 16 lands out of 17 drawn with something like 11 cards left in my deck... in the end though I have Wretched Gryff in play and topdeck Borrowed Hostility, so I go for it: either he chumps both my flyers, and I can survive the crackback (unless he gets a lucky topdeck), or he double-blocks and Hostility gives me the win. #2, woo.

Game 2 is him curving out and me with a bit too many lands and I get tempo'd out.

Game 3 is again a slow start (he goes Standard-Bearer, Field Creeper, Dawn Gryff, Gryff again when I Drag it Under, and the next turn seeing how I'm still not threatening he goes with Faith Unbroken on the Gryff to remove my lone Grizzled Angler and attack.
When he plays Hanweir Militia Captain, I topdeck Dual Shot and immediatly kill both Field Creeper and Standard-Bearer. He makes a token but it's still only 3 creatures so I'm fine... for now. I also have the Docent (I didn't play it earlier because I was stuck without a second island, which came later than the Faith Unbroken) and my opponent doesn't attack because he doesn't want to race or me to trade 2-for-1 with the Angler back I guess.
Then Always Watching comes down. Yicks. Yeah, good thing for me he didn't draw that or the aura during game 1 (though I was unluckier than him with the lands, you never know!).
On my next turn, I cast Incendiary Flow on his Militia Captain, before it gets too big (or flips), and since it would flip my Docent (should already have happened actually, we forgot Exultant Cultist is a wizard) he casts Fiery Temper on a token in response, itself answered with Turn Aside, and we're now looking at a flipped Docent, 4 tokens, and the Cultist.
I attack with all of them, keeping the Docent back the next turn, his now 5/5 Gryff takes a down but it's still 13 damage, and likely the game on my next turn so he concedes.

Woosh. Close. Had he held on Faith Unbroken rather than tried to end the game fast, or used it on Hanweir Militia Captain after playing it so it was too big to be removed, he would probably have won the game (Drag Under had to be used earlier, I didn't have counters in hand, and Gone Missing wasn't drawn yet).

Match 1 was him going ham on me and turn 6 Emrakul. Uh, well, my hand wasn't great either and behind on board, soo... He actually had a somewhat slow hand, but with Rites, Emrakul, 2 lands, Fork in the Road, Grapple and something else, he was poised for turbo-Emrakul if I couldn't pressure him BR vampires style. He topdecked Gargoyle, then a Bloodbriar on turn 3 (after Fork turn 2), and that gave him the minimal board to not take too much damage before turn 6.

Match 2 I was out-tempo'd basically, playing Skin Invasion on his Gargoyle because I planned to go Smoldering Werewolf turn 5 and flip him -> kill the Gargoyle t6 to clear the way. However he played Spectral Reserves after the Werewolf (look at that missed value!), then Survive the Night to prevent the flipped wolf's trigger from killing the Gargoyle and blocking with it, and the next turn Lashweed Lurker to send the wolf back, basically setting me back 3 turns since I spent one flipping, then replayed it (and Incendiary Flow to kill the Lurker), but would need to flip again to beat his blockers...
He won a couple turns later and showed me his remaining card in hand: Emrakul. He could have casted it but had lethal on board so went for it instead.