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Hero of Goma Fada was my promo card.
Blue was shit, lots of lifegain interaction in white but not much lifegain, which was in green and black (both pretty light). This time around I had almost no removal at all (stone fury, complete disregard, outnumber, that's about it).
I really wanted to try BW since I think it's my favourite colour pair, but since I opened Omnath, I decided to give it a go and made two decks.
I used the GR first:
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Went 0-2. The other guy had a GR full of landfall creatures, game 1 he played them turns 2 3 4 on curve and utterly destroyed me. Second game I was a bit short on mana but held a bit, only to be met with combat tricks and he ended me.

I decided to switch decks. Did a playtest, I barely won but he got mana screwed so not very indicative considering his deck. Turn 2 was a bye (phew).

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Third series was against an opponent with more or less the same deck as me at the start of last week: scion generation, one or two big eldrazi, and smaller ingest ones.
First game very close, I end up stabilising a board and getting some life back through the Healer ally trigger and dropping the Emissary. After this I have 3 flyers so grind him down. He exiled 9 of my cards during that game.
Second one is him being on the defensive a lot because he draws a bunch of lands. After awhile, where I again have the emissary, he topdecks to defend himself, followed with Kiora. He makes a mistake and uses her +1 to swing with the elemental then untap it for defense, instead of not attack and use Kiora's -2 to try and search for another creature. I exile the elemental on his turn with complete disregard then kill Fiora, and finish the game from there.

Series 4:
First game is a landfall-buffed creatures played on curve which stomps me in a couple turns, not much to say.
Second game has me dropping the healer and a string of allies pretty quickly, and after the drop the vigilance-granting ally and swing after he got some damage in with his landfall-buffed creatures, he switches to the defensive. A 4/4 is still really strong when you look at most allies' stats, and he showed me a Swell of Growth earlier so I'm very wary.
I end up with Kalastria Nightwatch then a scout to make a flyer with vigilance a turn, and between that, the health swings from Healer and Emissary and my numerical advantage I'm able to finish him off. He has Infiltrators too, which make it a pain to get damage in because they'll trade with any creature with only 2 thoughness, and nothing I have has the 4 strength necessary to kill them.
The third and final game I have 2 marshes in my starting hand, feel confident because I have 10 plains in the deck even though 3 of my cards require white mana, and end up not drawing lands for 4 turns. I drop a healer but my opponent 3 or 4 2/1 creatures and I swiftly die. He tells me after the game that I should have immediatly traded the healer for his first 2/1 when I saw he played other things and/or I didn't have other options, because keeping its rally effect isn't worth the health snowball he started.

I get one pack, one (ignorable eldrazi) promo card, and the remnants of another guy's pack who only took the rare out of his. Another healer (got 3 now, yay! Obvious staple in a BW lifegain ally deck so I'm happy), Retreat to Emeria (if they costed 2W they'd be good I think, but 3W feels so harsh... isn't that very slow for allies?), Blighted Woodland and Ruinous Path.

Evolving Wilds
8x Mountains, 8x Forests (I think)
1-drops: Outnumber, Blisterpod,
2-drops: 2x Kozilek's Sentinel, 2x Earthen Arms, Reckless Cohort, Makindi Sliderunner, Seek the Wilds
3-drops: 2x Tunneling Geopede, Valakut Predator, Retreat to Kazandu
4-drops: Belligerent Whiptail, Eyeless Watcher, From Beyond, Zada, Hedron grinder, Vestige of Emrakul,
5-drops: Shatterskull recruit, Stonefury
6-drops: Deathless Behemoth
7-dops: Omnath, Locus of Rage
Other: Rolling Thunder

Decent curve on paper I guess? If I can curve the Sliderunner into the Predator then the Whiptail, it's decent aggro. If I don't have to deal with aggro, Seek the Wilds, Tunneling Geopede and From Beyond can put some pressure while setting up ramp for Deathless Behemot/Omnath, and if I can get Zada out (or at least set up a Zada -> Earthen Arms play w/ Scions) it's a huge swing.
But I don't have anything to deal with big landfall guys like Predators, Territorial Baloth, Geyserfield Stalkers, etc. especially if I'm not on the play.
Maybe it was just that the guy had a good curve and I drew my shit cards the series I played this deck (Kozilek's Sentinels are useless in these situations because they don't kill anything and can't survive a block, which was why I put them there as I lack devoid spells).
Now I kinda want to do some more games with it.

I didn't put the Sandstone Briddges in because curve and tempo.
7x Marshes, 10x Plains
1-drops: 2x Cliffside Lookout, Lithomancer's focus
2-drops: Kalastria Healer, Serene Steward, Felidar Cub, Tandem Tactics, Kor Castigator
3-drops: Complete Disregard, Encircling Fissure, Shadow Glider, Drana's Emissary, Makindi Patrol
4-drops: Bloodbond Vampire, Courier Griffin, Inspired Charge, Retreat to Emeria, Silent Skimmer
5-drops: Hero of Goma Fada, Roil's Retribution, Kalastria Nightwatch, Fiend's Grasp
6-drops: Angel of Renewal

Looking at it now, my curve seems a lot less early-oriented than I thought. I got really lucky with some of these draws. On the other hand I didn't realise I had several flyers and they basically broke a stalemate for me before my opponent could topdeck something strong.
Kalastria Healer obvious MVP, along with Drana's Emissary. Cliffside Lookout did some wok by providing early drops, thena chump blocker / ally trigger when I drew the other. Makindi Patrol helped put pressure by letting me attack with high thoughness creatures / flyers during board stalemates.
Retreat and Inspire Charge ended up Ingested in most games they appeared in.
My curve/baseline creatures are a lot less solid than in the main deck here. I've got a few combat tricks and the fissure to bait my opponent into bad plays while preserving my board though, and I underestimated the pressure some allies can put out by simply being on the board (maybe because the only time I faced allies was last week when I got rolled by RW with strong draws (double strike hurts), so a lot more aggro), like the Healer and the Patrol, both meaning guaranteed damage in if I dropped an ally.
Steward didn't put in as much work as I'd hoped, she combos well with the Healer but if I have to sac one she'll go first.