Victory Comes One Land Drop at a Time....

This is the first PTQ of the season I had been able to goto for Austin. I was looking for other people in our group to go, but the drive kind of made people not want to go. So Ben Swartz and myself were on our way to Detroit Friday evening. We get to RIW around midnight and see everyone up there. Most of the sharks in Detroit are already qualified from the GP or the PT so the field is more watered down than usual which is a good thing. Anyways we end up finding a cheap hotel and call it a night. The next day we goto Pandemonium and sign up. I decide to run the 5 color Cascade LD deck that I had been running online all week thanks to my friend Christian(who I had talk to on b9/MODO and awkwardly met sitting next to each other at GP Tacoma) Anways here is my 75 I ran for the tournament:
4 Boomerang
4 Rain of Tears
4 Fulminator Mage
2 Grixis Charm
2 Kathari Remant
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Cryptic Command
3 Deny Reality
2 Primal Command
2 Incendiary Command
2 Enlisted Wurm
1 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Fire Lit Thicket
1 Flooded Grove
4 Sunken Ruins
2 Casacde Bluffs
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Vivid Creek
4 Vivid Crag
3 Vivid Marsh
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Mountain
1 Island
Sideboard:
1 Cruel Ultimatum
3 Thought Hemorrhage
2 Primal Command
1 Wrath of God
3 Hallowed Burial
1 Austere Command
4 Consign to Dream

Round 1 Tiffany Kelly playing Budget White Weenie with Random Cards Game 1 she came out the door quick and I got smashed. I also kept a weak hand and didnt hit my 4th land until turn 7. Game 2 I side out Fulminator Mage for wrath effects. I hit a key wrath off an Enlisted Wurm and he goes all the way. Game 3 was too close for comfort. She had a couple dudes and a Stillmoon. I had a lot of land out and 3 land in hand. I ripped into Cruel Ultimatum and proceded to draw Cryptic, Bloodbraid and a land. I tap her guys draw a card. It was another Cryptic. I play bloodbraid cascade into grixis charm kill a dude. I attack she goes to 9. She attacks all in I assume she will pump her knight for lethal so I let her attack she does as expected I command her dude back to hand and draw the 2nd ultimatum. How lucky. 2-1 overall 1-0
Round 2 Lazorus Jackson playing Red Deck Wins with Black. Dont recall too much. Game 1 he had 0 land in play and Bloodbraid Elf went the distance. Game 2 he hits a key anathemancer and flame javelins for lethal.. Game 3 was very close. He has 2 land and a ram gang. Im at 7. He attacks in I goto 4. He passes. I draw a blank and he hits a land and Javelins me for the win.
1-2 overall 1-1
Round 3 Justin McComb playing BW Tokens. Game 1 I keep him on 2 land the whole game and try to race his bitterblossom. I think I cast incendiary command to early because it killed 4 dudes and my bloodbraid but I needed to keep him off his 2nd white source. I he ends up at 1 and is swings in with 7 tokens. Game 2 and 3 I get solid LD spells and dudes. Game 3 he said he kept a risky hand and it did cost him. He had no permanents and Enlisted Wurm went the distance. 2-1 overal 2-1
Round 4 Jack Nowakowski playing Red Deck Wins with Black. Thankfully these decks are chocked full of nonbasic goodness so the matchup isnt too terrible. I just have to make sure my life total is out of javelin range. This round not much happened. Dudes were played and killed. He had no land both games and I eventually ground out a win finding guys and swinging. 2-0
overall 3-1
Round 5 Kurtis Droge playing UW Reveillark. This matchup is god awful. They play so many basic lands that it makes me never want to play Fulminator Mage. He eventually gets Sowered and blows up my own land. I can never get a real advantage on this deck and lose in 2 quick games. Later to find out that Kurtis did eventually win the PTQ. His deck was very different in the fact that he ran Figure. Also the singleton Heap Doll in the sideboard lol. 0-2 overall 3-2
Round 6 Matt Cafferty playing 5 color Bloodbraid. This deck was designed to punish this deck. He never gets over 2 lands and gets the Bloodbraid beatdown. Game 2 was very similar. My opponent told me I was a horrible person for playing a deck like this and I thought it was pretty funny. 2-0 overall 4-2
Round 7 Josh Edelman playing Elementals. Turns out Manuel Bucher had been playing this deck on MODO during the week and ended up doing well with it at GP Sao Paulo. Horde of Notions can be very scary as can Infinite Fulminator Mages. The engine of Smokebraider and Bloomtender is quite ridciulous. Anyways game 1 I hit the nut cascade of wurm into reality into bloodbraid into fulminator mage. He has no colored source and has no answer to the wurm. Game 2 my oppoenent fetches up fulminator mage with his guy. Then procedes to play pithing needle turn 2 naming fulminator mage. LOL nice play idiot. Turn 3 he plays Mage and tries to sac it I point to needle and he has a retarded look like wow did I just do that. I procede to bash this mongoloid for his bad plays. 2-0 overall 5-2.
Round 8 Erik Robertson playing UW Revillark. Not much to say about this round. The matchup is really awful and I barely lost in 3. Game 3 he had no cards in hand. Rips into an Archmage with mana up. My only card in hand was Cruel Ultimaum which was going to be lethal with my dudes getting in. I am never able to get around the archmage the rest of the game. 1-2 overall 5-3
The deck wasnt too bad, but it does have a problem with Reveilark. I also see that deck getting very popular and has been making quite a few top 8's. Therefore I would not recommend this deck for the upcoming weekend. As I think Faeries will be out in fullforce. I think I will be playing an updated version of 5 color bloodbraid or rocking the Fae.