I played this deck the other night in the LGS I have been going to and it went pretty well. It was against
Giada, Font of Hope,
Captain N'ghathrod and something else I don't remember. I think it was
Roon of the Hidden Realm but I can't say for sure. So I will just refer to them as Roon.
I started off with a few lands but no real ramp. I ended up getting to
Cultivate on turn 3 which helped me get to a few things after that. I did cast
Damnation shortly after as the rest of the table had a decent board state I felt that a reset was likely the best option.
I then cast Windgrace after that when there were 3 creatures on board. Doing the math, I realized that Windgrace would survive at 1 even if everyone attacked him. Giada then dropped in a flyer that boosted Giada but, luckily, they didn't swing at Windgrace. They did swing at me though. Nor did N'ghathod swing at Windgrace which was odd as they seemed to be the best at threat assessment among the other three.
Roon attacked Windgrace but that was just for 1. So, I untapped with Windgrace alive and just started digging. I didn't get a lot but I was able to get down some creatures. I started with
The Gitrog Monster and had something else as well to just put up some defense.
Captain was building up quite the board state during this time though and arguably was the threat for at least a while. They didn't have a ton of power but they were able to get in with different Horrors and steal different cards from us. They stole a
Springbloom Druid from me and a
Sun Titan from Roon which were pretty good.
I was trying to figure out who to attack as not all attacks would get through to Captain so I spread things out a bit. I then cast
Realms Uncharted to get
Bazaar of Baghdad,
Diamond Valley,
Volrath's Stronghold, and
Glacial Chasm. I was lucky enough to be past the point of needing colored mana so I went with utility. Captain gave me Bazaar and Diamond Valley which probably were the right choices there.
The following turn, after discarding a land to Windgrace, I cast
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen into
Splendid Reclamation which made Ob Nixilis into a 21/21 (I got 6 triggers) and had a couple different people lose life to try to balance out life totals since people were still pretty high. Captain then tried to exile or steal Ob so I sacrificed him to gain 21 life putting me at 51. This gave me a little to work with to pay for Chasm for some turns.
Now that I had Chasm out, I couldn't be damaged. Of course, I almost immediately forgot about that when Captain swung at me so they got a trigger they shouldn't have. We didn't reverse it since it affected too much but no one forgot it again. In fact, Captain thought I had Chasm even after it went away (and I said it went away a couple times).
From here, the others sort of just went after one another for a little bit but I was clearly the threat so they were trying to focus on me. I did get a few more creatures on board, including things like
Erinis, Gloom Stalker which helped get lands back. I never got anything really big on board but I was holding onto a
Torment of Hailfire that I was holding off on using for the time being.
I ended up casting
Eternal Witness to get back
Entomb that had been milled to get
World Shaper which I then put on top with Volrath's Stronghold. I drew that and played it and attacked and passed the turn. They tried to remove World Shaper and I sacrificed it. I ended up getting 7 or so lands back from that. I did have
Lotus Cobra at the time but the mana from this didn't do much.
My next turn, I cast
Spike Weaver and passed. Giada attacked me and I fogged. Then Captain attacked me and I fogged. Next turn, I drew
Kessig Wolf Run and decided it was probably about time to work on ending the game. I blew up Roon's only blocker when they were at 9 life and attacked them with Gitrog and Erinis to kill them. I then swung a 12 power Eternal Witness thanks to Wolf Run at Giada to get some damage in.
The player playing Giada got up to go do something so the Captain player played their hand (I think they were a grandpa/grandson relationship) and Captain said Giada would have attacked them so they died. On my next turn, I swung at 5 attackers to their 4 blockers and pumped the unblocked one with Wolf Run for 36 to win.
At the end of the game, the Captain player did mention that Giada had an answer for that particular line but I also had Spike Weaver still, a bunch of life, and I would just do it again next turn and trample over when their smallest creature (Giada) blocked so I don't think it mattered. It was also the last game of the night and I think people were fine to just end it there.
All in all a good game. I never did cast Torment because with this group it just didn't feel right to end the game that way. Probably not the best way to think of it but I do prefer a little more back and forth and threats that can only be answered with stack interaction induce a feeling of helplessness and I am hesitant to use them. Not to say I will cut it, but I vastly preferred the way this game ended than to using Torment.
I got to see a couple new cards show up. Mainly Erinis. And I did like the card. Being an attack trigger means I am certain to get the land either way and it helped get a few lands. Captain also got close to milling me out but with Volrath's Stronghold and
Underrealm Lich (which was in my yard so Stronghold could get it back for me), it means I wasn't likely to actually lose by being milled out in this game unless those things could be answered.
I thought the other players played well, especially Captain. Roon got a little flooded which didn't help things, but Giada was a decent threat since I have very little in the way of flyers or things with Reach. But it worked out where I didn't really need much this game.