Hah! I was able to get a game in with Yawgmoth! I didn't win, but it was also one of the more ridiculous game states I've ever seen.
So I was playing against
Yarok, the Desecrated combo,
Anhelo, the Painter Big Spells.dec, and
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded. It was an interesting table and I knew that Yarok was going to be heavily focusing on his Spellseeker combo line to try and go infinite. I've also played against the Purphoros deck and its pilot LOVES to target me when I'm playing Yawgmoth. So I knew I was in for an uphill battle.
I opened with
Swamp,
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth,
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince,
Thran Dynamo,
Phyrexian Arena,
Treacherous Pit-Dweller, and
Massacre Girl. Definitely not the best hand, but it would get the job done. We all did land-go except for the Yarok player who had a
Gemstone Caverns pre-game action and a mana dork plus tutor combo to start his T1, but then he missed a few land drops so stall out. I play my Pit-Dweller on T2 with a plan of Arena for T3, but I drew into
Worn Powerstone and
Bridge from Below. I decided to develop my cards instead of my mana and did the Arena T3. Yarok needed 2 more turns to assemble his combo line, so I knew I had at least one more turn of development before I needed to worry about interacting. But then he cast a Deathrite Shaman along with his tutor. So I cast Yawgmoth T4 and sac'ed the Pit-Dweller to kill Yarok's mana dork and shrink the Deathrite before its exile ability blanked my Pit-Dweller. Anhelo was starting to really ramp up their mana and cast an Anhelo. Purphoros was looking to cast their Commander on my T4 with no mana up, so that's why I went for a T4 Yawgmoth. Yarok finally plays his Commander and Anhelo plays a
Watcher for Tomorrow and another bounce land. Purphoros gets cast and I know it's going to come at me, whatever his Sneak Attack creature is. So I choose that turn to be my mana development turn. I cast the Dynamo into the Powerstone into a
Plague Myr so I could recover in case he killed Yawgmoth. Yarok spent another tutor looking for the last combo piece. Anhelo plays an
Extract from Darkness and doesn't find a whole lot of targets from it except his own Watcher, which he returns. Purphoros comes at me and his Sneak'ed creature is
Hellkite Tyrant. Dammit. I sac the Myr to draw a card and he takes my mana rocks. I draw into a
Phyrexian Obliterator and cast that as protection for Purphoros as well as Yarok. Yarok untaps, misses the mana he needs to go off, and passes. Anhelo then fires off a copied spell that gained him a bunch of life. Purph hard casts an
Etali, Primal Storm and attacks me. I
Dismember it and block with Obliterator, watching as a land gets exiled. I untap, draw
Phyrexian Rager with mana open to discard my
Bridge from Below with Yawgmoth's proliferate ability. Yarok draws the land they need and attempts to go off. In response, I discard my Bridge, sac my Rager and its token, the Obliterator and its token and another creature token that I somehow got to kill his Yarok. Fizzled, he lets Yarok go to his 'yard since he doesn't have enough mana to recast it and he'd previously tutored for a
Reanimate. This is when Anhelo decides to go off. He casts a casualt-ied
Blatant Thievery and steals my stolen mana rocks from Purph and a whole bunch of lands from me and the Yarok player. Becoming public enemy and shifting all pain away from him, Purph sends something at the Anhelo player. I try to rebuild after having my lands stolen, Yarok is out of the game basically, and Purph is pretty mad. Anhelo comes back to his turn and recasts his
Blatant Thievery, only this time with a
Twinning Staff and another casualty trigger. We each lose another 3 permanents. So, with his huge board of creatures and lands (he stole my Yawgmoth and Obliterator), they all look to me to see if I can do anything. I play my 5th land and cast
Massacre Girl to wipe the board. This completely resets Anhelo's creature board to nothing, but I've got his attention. I'm at 10-ish life at this time. So, Anhelo attacks me with a dude to put me at 8 life and then casualty-ies my face with
Prophetic Bolt. Purph is next with a gigantic X spell and Yarok eventually scoops because he literally has no permanents in play.
Either way, I think I played as well as I could and had multiple flavor wins that made me happy! I had multiple points of interaction and played a presence in the game, which is all I'm really asking for when I sit down with this deck. I was very pleased and the Obliterator acted as an effective rattlensake card for the Purph player, so I think it's going to stay in.