I played this again last night against
Naru Meha, Master Wizard,
The Ur-Dragon, and
Tishana, Voice of Thunder.
Nothing spectacular happened in the early game but I was able to hit my land drops and get Windgrace down on turn 6 I think. I had no protection for him so I knew he would likely die if people swung at him (there was exactly 7 power on the field) but I needed some cards. I got lucky that Tishana had
Edric, Spymaster of Trest which gave me some cards a little later but also led people to attacking players to draw cards. Windgrace was able to stick around for a little while.
I basically just sat back and tried not to die for most of the game. Naru Meha kept stealing stuff from The Ur-Dragon and got a
Dragon Tempest that, somewhat unexpectedly, almost killed all of us. They had that and then cast a
Clone Legion to copy the 2 dragons Ur-Dragon had. They copied the Clone Legion as well. The 2 dragons they had were
Utvara Hellkite and
Scourge of Valkas. This gave them a total of 4 triggers for 2 damage when the first Clone Legion resolved, 4 triggers for 4 damage with the second Clone Legion and then 12 triggers for 8 damage when they attacked.
They killed Ur-Dragon, got Tishana down very low, and tried to kill me. The only reason I survived is because I was at 33, they sent 36 damage my way, and I had
Diamond Valley and
The Gitrog Monster to keep me alive at 3 life.
Now, at 3 life, I started doing stuff. I cast
Last One Standing to get rid of all the dragons. I cast
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger to get rid of a couple other things which was countered. I got it back with
Phyrexian Reclamation and cast it again, This time it stuck and I had something to sac to gain me 10 life.
I ended up getting
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar down as well and tried to cast a
Momentous Fall, sacrificing it.. I drew 26 cards (or something like that) and gained that much life.
While I I made sure to work on keeping myself alive, Tishana was working really hard to just win the game with
Laboratory Maniac and
Jace, Wielder of Secrets. I was able to get rid of Lab Man with one of the Ulamog triggers, but there was a point where they tried to draw a bunch of cards with Jace on the field which would have given them the win. Luckily, I had both
Bedevil and
Assassin's Trophy in hand to stop them. I only needed Bedevil so they just lost.
At the same time, I had started building up my board in anticipation of just winning. I had
Omnath, Locus of Rage on the field along with
Protean Hulk. I sacrificed hulk to get
World Shaper which would have given me about 11 triggers for Omnath. I really wanted to go with this line to kill Jace by Sacrificing tokens, but I didn't have enough sac outlets. Instead, I just flooded the board to kill Naru Meha.
The last sequence shows that having a sac outlet like
Goblin Bombardment or
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician could be very useful with Omnath. I would lean towards Yawgmoth first, but I am not sure I need it quite yet.
Tectonic Reformation and
Kessig Wolf Run did absolutely nothing all game. I even got Kessig Wolf Run early off of a
Realms Uncharted and still couldn't find a good place to activate it. It doesn't take up a spell slot or anything, and I didn't get punished for it not producing colored mana, so I think the option when I need it is still reasonable to have.
Reformation ended up in my graveyard after discarding it after the Multani play above. Even after just one game with it, I am already doubting its inclusion. It works great with Gitrog but I often just don't have the lands to cycle. I want to play them more often than I want to cycle them. Being able to replace those lands in a situation where I might really need something different is good, but I just don't know how often that will come up. I will be keeping a close eye on this card.