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There was me with Horde of the Notions, Jan Jestribek with The Mimeoplasm, Adam Holub with Empress Galina and Tomas Gottwald with Azusa, Lost but Seeking.
In the first round I played against Adam. I already played against the deck so I knew that I have two possibilities how to win. Either play a one drop or a man land that would kill my opponent or tutor Thrun, the Last Troll as fast as possible and win with him. I mulled to one drop and a land. I played that but Adam had Mishra's factory that could block all my mana dorks. They are not entirely the best attackers usually. So I played few creatures and then Adam played Merchant Scroll fetching Force of Will and Mystical Tutor fetching Polymorph. In the next turn Mishra's Factory turned into Kozilek. I had two answers to that but I needed to get rid of the FoW. I decided to play Acidic Slime as that could destroy both Compulsion and Kozilek in order to get it countered with that FoW. Kozilek was tapped for an attack and I sacrificed all my creatures in order to keep lands so I could play Jace, the Mind Sculptor on my turn. Anyway one of the creatures was Fauna Shaman so I discarded a creature and fetched for Shriekmaw. I killed Kozilek with it and then I hoped to win somehow. I was at 12 life which wasn't that good (Sylvan Library and Kozilek) as my opponent still had Faerie Conclave in play. I got Path to Exile later and hoped to get rid of the Conclave with it which I managed and everything was fine. I won. The next game was quite similar. This time I could actually attack with my mana dorks and later Thrun came. My opponent though played Acquire and put my own Wurmcoil Engine in play. I played Jace TMS and bounced it back. I was afraid of playing it as I couldn't get rid of it if it would change control once again (Jace died). But I got Batterskull to help me with that dilemma. Batterskull can be returned to my hand so I wasn't afraid of playing - it would either resolve or not. While in play it couldn't harm me. Batterskull resolved and my opponent was incapable of dealing with it nor Thrun.
In round two my Horde was pitted against Azusa. I wasn't really sure what to expect but soon I found out. My mana base was completely wrecked. My poor Arbor Elf was not even able to produce mana^^. I tried to survive and deal some damage but it was useless. So I hoped for a bit better mana producing creatures in game 2. It was better - Noble Hierarch and Fyndhorn Elves. In this game I actually got quite a lot of lands but I was unable to draw something that would make difference and my opponent wasn't really playing creatures either (except Azusa). I had a better plan for my Phyrexian Metamorph (than killing Azusa which was rather useless). I needed attackers in order to win so I copied Stirring Wildwood with it and then I hoped that these two lands, Treetop Village, Wasteland and Aven Mindcensor would do (even with Mindcensor Tomas always minus once managed to get a land from fetchlands, hopefully this allowed me to win as he dealt quite a lot of damage to himself this way). Tomas had Gargoyle Castle and Life From the Loam (and hell a lot of mana). So the number of Gargoyles would be growing if I wouldn't be attacking with my Stirring Wildwood. It came down to very similar life total and it was either me or Tomas, both of us tried to do the math and in the end it was me who came out of this victorious - my 5/5 Vigilance, Trample, Haste general helped a lot^^.
Last round - The Mimeoplasm. I'm not entirely sure what went wrong. I remember having too many lands and not being able to draw something better. I started with Noble Hierarch, Arbor Elf. I had Treetop Village that could attack for 4 but that wasn't lethal anyway. My opponent started to play big creatures which in the end kill me anyway. In the second game I was always one land short. I needed to deal with Volrath's Stronghold and Eternal Witness in the graveyard. I was unable to do so. Later it wasn't just Eternal Witness that bothered me in the graveyard. Anyway I managed to play Ajani Vengeant and keep him alive for a while. He kept Volrath's Stronghold tapped. I got Trinket Mage which tutored Nihil Spellbomb but still I was unable to play it all the time. I just needed that one mana. When Ajani died I finally managed to get rid of the land but still creatures in the graveyard waited for Mimeoplasm. I wasn't sure what creature was more deadly - Damia or Primeval Titan. In the end it was me who won even though my opponent drew many more cards and managed to get recursions working.
After this tournament I decided to never play this deck again. I should build a new deck and it should be more fun.
Tomas was heading to a restaurant to play some highlander and invited us as well. He also proposed that we could play with his cube. 2 of us agreed so we joined him and found the restaurant with the help of a taxi driver.
We needed to organize ourselves a bit and after some chaos we played some games. After a bit more chaos we ended up playing 2 headed giant games. Two of us played EDH with The Mimeoplasm as a general and the remaining two played regular highlander decks. My team mate played some mono red. My 'highlander' opponent played BG rock. His favorite creatures were Massacre Wurm and Wurmcoil Engine. Massacre Wurm killed all our creatures (except Wall of Roots) and dealt about 14 damage. But I did not want this card to kill us. So I stole the Wurm and copied it. This dealt less damage to the opponents but two copies of this creature would do much more damage later. I had Phyrexian Tower untapped so I could sacrifice the stolen wurm if something should go wrong. We won turn later.
After some of the players left 5 of us moved to a different place and we decided to cube draft.
Tomas Gottwald's Cube
With some alcohol in our bloodstream we started to draft. We prepared three 15 card packs and drafted them. My first pack was full of red cards - (Magus of the Moon and Stigma Lasher were among them). The card that caught my eye and I liked it the best was Pernicious Deed though. In the next pack I was interested in Sphinx of the Steel Wind. I picked that because it was a good creature and relatively playable. When I was passed Tinker I decided to go for artifacts. I picked all the Signets in more or less Esper colors (and bit of green). The mana producing artifacts were my only mana fixation and I already had cards with UWB in its cost or UUU. In the next packs I decided to be picking some lands. My first pick was Ethersworn Adjudicator. I picked Phyrexian Metamorph, Dungeon Geist, Spellskite and Kira as well to protect my BIG creature. After the second booster I also got Tundra, Scrubland, Flooded Strand and Breeding Pool. The last pack was an overkill. There was Jace TMS, Elspeth from Alara, Sorin from DKA, Underground Sea and some other cards I would consider playing. I picked Jace and passed Elspeth.
When trying to figure out what to play I in the end cut out all my draw spells and replaced them with removal some cheaper creatures because I knew that surviving might be a serious problem for me as I was happily passing cards like hallowed burial or day of judgment.
We played a 5 player game with our drafted decks. Tomas who was starting was heavily in red. Jan J. next to him was playing UWR and had all the mass removal in his deck. Jan V. who followed was the only really aggro deck there, he played Boros and had quite cheap creatures (and some more expensive ones like Gisela or Wurmcoil Engine). I was sitting next to him and that did not put me in a good position. I needed to rely on other players to deal with Jan V. creatures. Next to me was yet another Jan (B.) who played BG and he did not really show us much from his deck except Fauna Shaman.
I had many lands and all signets and tried to survive. Shadowmage Infiltrator tried its best to block some attacks but Elspeth ruined my plan. Sorin, Lord of Innistrad was trying to help me against Elspeth in that. His Vampires with Emblem were trying to gain me life so I wouldn't die as I couldn't block flyers till round 7. Jan J. played Day of Judgment and later Terminus that saved me some cards and I survived thanks to that. Tomas who started to be quite agressive as well solved the situation for me. He had Koth on the table and was attacking Jan J. who later played Gideon and even managed to kill one of Tom's mountains. Tomas played Zealous Conscripts, stole Elspeth. Used her ultimate ability and attacked Jan. J. Later he played Sword of Fire and Ice and with that killed Jan J and Elspeth. At that time I was finally able to get tinker and tutored Ethersworn Adjudicator and copied that with Phyrexian Metamorph. I wasn't afraid of Jan V. anymore. But still I needed to untap and survive one round (as Tomas and Jan V. could possible kill me if they joined forces). I let him deal me 7 damage getting me down to 6 but with time I got up to 12 and I felt save there. Adjudicator could deal with any creature on the battlefield except Zealous Conscripts. I had Jace TMS ont he table though and brainstorms helped me get to Gilded Drake that dealt with the Conscripts. I attacked for 26 and killed Jan B. Now it was Tomas's time to figure out how to survive. He had 6 mountains so he could kill something but still couldn't get rid of more than one creature in a turn. Jan V. who could hardly kill me played Wurmcoil Engine and showed us accidentally Chandra in his hand. My Sorin was at 6 counters so I could use his last ability. I destroyed Wurmcoil Engine, Koth and bounced my Gilded Drake. I attacked once again for lethal. I left my mana open (if by a chance my last opponent would play something that could possibly kill me). He did not but was still at 36 life or something. I was prepared for that already as I was holding Magister Sphinx in my hand for quite some time. (was a back up plan of how to 'gain' life). In the end I used the Sphinx to win as I would attack for less than 30.
Here's my really awkward decklist.
Magister Sphinx
Sphinx of Steel Wind
Gilded Drake
Tidehollow Sculler
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Spellskite
Dungeon Geist
Phyrexian Metamorph
Scrubland
Tundra
Golgari Signet
Orzhova Signet
Karakas
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Tinker
Dimir Signet
Kira, Great Glass Spinner
Flooded Strand
Shadow Infiltrator
Unburial Rites
Chimeric Mass
Mindslaver
Enclave Cryptologist
Blightsteel Colossus
Breeding Pool
Creeping Tar-pit
Vedalken Shackles
Path to Exile
Sphinx of Uthuun
Glacial Fortress
Pernicious Deed
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