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So I proceed to flood out in the worst manner, with something like 7 cards to 11+ lands.
I also don't really curve out, since Cultivator of Blades was my 2nd creature, and not drawing my removal meant I never could attack with it (I'd get chumped or deal some damage, then trade it 1-for-1 to a double block), so I can pressure either and he dumps all his energy into scries.

In the end I use Appetite on a Pacifism to surprise block something (he'll just bounce it then immediatly play Captured by the Consulate on the Cultivator), then find something to get rid of his flyers, and use Artistry to get another Peafowl and give a Seedsculptor's counter to the original one so he can't block it.
He takes a few hits then play Malfunction on my big Peafowl and a couple other flyers while I'm still flooded (15 lands at that point), and I end up losing 'cause I'm low on life and have less creatures. Game lasted super long and went to turns, he actually saw his whole deck with his scries which explains why he saw creatures and pacifisms galore.
Blossoming Defense and Durable Handicraft showed up at the very tail end of the game, just too late. Same with Seedsculptors showing up late and Trumpeteers after I'd played most of my synergies anyway. Deadlock Trap came down the turn after it could have set up lethal... but right in time for the Malfunction to close that window for me.
One thing I could have done differently, but which would have only lead to a draw possibly, was remember that Cultivator could still block, which would have saved me 4 life from a Mastodon attack (would have traded the other blocking creature for it probably, tho).

Didn't get to see much of his deck because his starts got a bit slow and my deck actually worked like it was supposed to: t3 Trumpeteer into Peema, then either another Peema or Artisan, and later Edgecrafters or Cultivator of Blades.
I also set up a Confiscation Coup on his 6/8 Automaton with Hightide Hermit and Deadlock Trap, then on the next turn stole it + tapped a blocker + used the remaining mana on Nature's Way to kill the 3rd one. He wouldn't lose on the swing but couldn't come back from that and conceded.

Apparently he screwed up his draft, went 0-3 and his splash was weird, 3 swamps + Aether Hub for Underhanded Designs and a couple other B cards, which I'm not sure are worth playing in UR to begin with, since it's pretty much the anti-artifacts combination.

Dude was 2 sits to my right, and not particularly B till late in pack 2, so he's the reason I didn't see much G. But then why did I get passed all that stuff pack 3?

Well he simply picked all the 2-3 drops he could. Sage of Shalia's Claim over Peema, and shit like that.
His deck was pretty much focused on 2-3 drops, then 2x Hunt for the Weak, 1x Die Young, 1x Ornamental Courage, 1x Tidy Conclusion, and a couple bigger drops to round things up (Azorback Stomper, Prakhata Club Security, Riparian Tiger and the 6/6 for 4GG).
He even had Thriving Rhino and Armourcraft Judge and the Hunts, but he kept passing me shit like late Seedsculptors, picking Pillar Bug over them. He was telling me after our match about how he always has a nice curve in his drafts. Well sure if that means throwing all synergy to the wind... pretty much all he had for synergy was small drops to play stuff early and energy producers to keep growing his single Rhino.

Didn't matter because when my 7x turn 2 plays deck made me mull to 6 then gave me 3 lands, Wild Wanderer, Confiscation Coup and Malfunction on the play, I thought that I would statistically get something in play for turn 3.
Nope.
Meanwhile my opponent went Dhund Operative -> Filigree Familiar -> Prakhata Club Security -> Hunt for the Weak -> Hunt for the Weak. Curvestone hard at work, killed me fast. Also out-variance'd me with his double removal on curve while I didn't draw shit, uh.

Game 2 I had a Trumpeteer but this time he managed to draw the top of his curve and the necessary lands on curve, and the following turn a Sage of Shalia's Claim to make sure his Tiger still had energy and a topdecked Die Young to kill my Cobra so I couldn't 1-for-1 one of his few big things.
Meanwhile I was flooding (don't challenge my definition of the term, 6 spells and 9 lands is mana flood) so I simply lost.

I'm half-salty at that match because, well, it was exactly what I complained about the format in sealed: "somebody curves out and the other misses a play for a turn and KLD snowballs hard enough that it seals the game", but most because of the guy's stupid drafting process.
"Draft all the 2-3 drops regardless of the colour pair I'm in, disregard the synergies and actually pass stronger cards in early picks for filler, then pray they stumble or I draw my big drops on curve to maintain pressure."
Turns out I got variance'd enough that it worked out for him, but it also showed me why I couldn't draft the energy deck: the guy in the counters pair was picking all the small energy producers "for the curve" and casting aside all the cards that actually worked for him.
So yeah losing to somebody drafting so badly and who's also responsible for making my draft "worse" than it should have (I should have been UG energy and he put me into "mono-G curve splashing U bombs", it's not weak but certainly not where the pair should be) tends to make me salty (remember the serial forcing guy).