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The guy who drew a game because of his Fateful Showdown self-mill. I didn't see much though because he mulled to 5 then saw a lot of lands game 1 while I went Depala into Freighter, and game 2 he had the bigger ground creatures but I simply made servos with all my fabricate guys and only attacked with my flyers (Pioneer, then Harrier, then he shot the Skyff down) and managed to take him down rather quickly. Played around his Workshop Assistant by not actually letting it die after we traded Freighters, he also had Self-Assemblers but luckly I ended the game before they melted my chump stocks.
I didn't see much of his deck though... according to him about half of it was actually artifact spells.

Not much to say, he had 2x Revoke and Captured by the Consulate, I had self-bounce, but he also had Appetite for shit like Mastodon and Engineered Might so that even his tokens were threats.
If I made tokens I had a bunch of 2-power flyers basically, and a mentioned no hard removal. He played Aetherstorm Roc game 1 and always kept G mana open so I didn't race with Responder for fear of Ornamental Courage. He "only" had Blossoming Defense but I'd only have bought a couple turns. He ended up at 9 life after Appetite + topdecked Arborback Stomper, so I guess it would have kept him more on the defensive otherwise but...

Game 2 I wasted Pyrohelix to kill highspire artisan with an on-curve Responder, then Roc came down on curve. Game obviously lost a couple turns later, not that Pyrohelix would have saved me since he also had Blossoming Defense in hand and told me afterward he'd never have blocked with it anyway.

Kinda feels bad losing to the bomb, but the pod had 3 Blossoming Defenses and he had 2 of them, so even if I had picked the pacifisms there's not much I could have done versus his deck. Even siding Inspired Charge in wouldn't have helped that much (Engineered Might's stronger, and his curve was potentially better too).

My right neighbour, he started going UR energy but after opening Nissa pack 2 switched his plans around. He had some fixing in G (Attune, etc.) and got passed great cards (Cub in pack 3, it's absurd but Steel Overseer, well... also Rhino), plus his energy package was really great.
Several energy creatures, the modules to get energy on creature ETB and get counters when you gain energy, I passed him Territorial Gorger pack 2, legit a lot to fuel an Aethertorch Renegade...
I actually faced him because in round 2 game 3, with a superior board but facing a 5/5 Aetherborn Marauder with them both at low life totals, he topdecked Highspire Artisan with an artifact in plan and Welding Sparks in hand. He made a token, thought a bunch... then passed. He misread Sparks and thought it was X+2, not X+3, and when he realised it was too late.

Game 1 developed awhile, I took an aggressive start because his early creatures are weaker, but he semi-stabilised and Snare Thopter was bashing in, till I got a Mastodon and himself an Hermit.
I could have Disintegrated the Thopter but wanted to ideally have an artifact first, then play a spell in the same turn to remain on the offensive even if he had removal of his own. Basically waiting on a 6th land to either Disintegrate+Responder, or Wispweaver (Malfunction on a Pioneer was letting the Thopter through).
He killed my smaller creatures with Hermit rather than chump the Mastodon, so when I finally got my 6th land (he had a couple more himself, each his troubles) he was at 3, Disintegration finished him.

Game 2 had me stuck on 4 plains, inc. 3 from my starting hand, so he kinda played alone with a couple chumps on my part, but his start was truly scary.
t3 the counters module, t4 Gorger, t5 Attune + Turtle made for an 8/8 Trampler, t6 was another energy source for a 7/7 Trampler and a pumped turtle... I think I should have played around not topdecking a land and skipped an attack, to have blockers + Build to Last to trade. I'd still have lost 'cause I needed a 5th land either way (for a 3rd blocker to deal with the 8/8 that turn + the trick, or a mountain anyway 'cause my 3-drops in hand were red) but at this point when you get mana screwed it's almost better to go contrary to statistics and assume you'll stay screwed.
I was salty during and after that game and sadly it showed. After only getting 1-2s (and pity wins like a bye or my opponent getting a colour death both games) and what I thought was a decent deck this time, being on the road to another one off of losing to a bomb then mana problems was demoralising me.

Game 3 I had a decently aggro start (Grubs, Salivating Gremlins to draw removal (didn't happen), Depala, Augmenter + find Skiff with Depala, Mastodon) and my opponent had Attune and Rhino in hand but no forest, and he never drew one of his 8 so he basically played with a mulligan to 5 and the gap between our creatures (Turtle, Minister which milled a bunch of my good creatures, and 3 of my 6 mountains by turn 4... good thing I had one in starting hand) didn't leave him with a board by the time he could have activated the rare module to get energy and pump his blockers.