Quick post - 8-30

When I got to Diehard yesterday I had the sudden urge to build my Amaryllis deck.
Surprisingly, I got many cards in the 30 minutes before the tournament started and was able to build a deck. I had to borrow 3 cards from our friend Kavy to reach the 40 card mark(somehow we ended up with 41)

Surprisingly, Amaryllis worked out very well. Of course I didn't top, I went 2-2, losing to anti-meta and one version of the machina deck, but other than that the deck worked just as it should have.

Some things to note:
-The duels that I lost were matches where I did not get an Amaryllis into the grave.
-Queen of Thorns is amazing.
-Volcanic counters in the hand suck, and using Gravirose to put vounters in the grave is a bad turn 1 manuever. I'm not positive on what the better choices would be though, there are only so many level 3 targets in the deck.
-Wall of Ivy is awesome in theory, but no themed mirror force can stack up to the real thing.
-Cloak and Dagger is an amazing card against Machina. The deck doesn't run any s/t removal besides the basic ones, so declaring fortress has almost immediate results.
-It's hard to tell how much of an issue D.D. Crow is. My ooponent loses 1 card and I lose practically nothing. I wish there was an easier way to get Amaryllis into the grave besides trade-in and foolish burial though.
-Black Rose Dragon's 2nd effect wins games lol. I'm going to need at least 1 more black rose.
-Revival Rose has a ton of synergy with the deck, more than I ever thought. 1300/1300 are laughable stats, but once I get Tytannial or Amaryllis on the field its 95% likely that RevRose will be spammed.

We'll go more in depth with the deck on saturday I think. I really like it though, but I'm also REALLY excited about "Intro to Chaos". I've even found replacements for fabled raven.