In G2 of the match vs UW control I had a board state that left me with a couple of options.
To be clear of what was played and in the deck, here is how I sideboarded first: +2 BL, +2 Chandra, +3 Toil/Trouble, -1 Mizzium, -3 Chains, -2 Searing Blood, -1 WLH
The thinking behind this is that I was under the impression that I am playing against a player running that SCG list with zero Dspheres and BLs, but two last breath and two syncopade maindeck. They run 4 Verdicts and 4 Cleansings maindeck so Keening becomes worse, hence I didnt need to cut an additional 2 WLH.
My opening Hand was: LS, LS, BC,YP, Muta, Mountain, Temple of silence. Pretty much perfect imo. He also kept his 7 and opened with a Guildgate.
T1 Mutavault, draw WLH.
T2 He plays a basic plains and I draw my 2nd mountain and play YP into his open mana. (I am of the opinion that the games we win against Control mostly
involve being able to resolve an early threat despite counters/removal. YOLO!)
T3 He divinates while playing a basic island. I play the temple and scry away a land I draw Chandra Pyromaster and am left with several choices I can see:
1) I BC or LS his face, tapping out and leaving a YP and token on the deck, passing into his 4th turn, having attacked with YP.
2) I leave muta and mountain untapped, attack and pass the turn.
3) I swing with both muta and YP for 4 dmg
We are both at 20 life at this point.
I chose 1. My reasoning: He was tapped out and thinking he didnt have Dspheres to draw into, that left only verdict and last breath. tho he would have to had to drawn the last breath either on his turn or with his divination. Putting up a token next to my YP and being tapped out I hoped would tempt him into tapping out as well for either jace or verdict so I could then resolve my Chandra on T4 and ride her to the win. My YP was forfeit at this point and I was on the Chandra-plan. Since he would
have to make two consecutive land drops to remove a resolved chandra with planar cleansing I knew I would have the time to tick her up AND protect her with at least one boros charm if he taps out for cleansing. So on the off chance he might actually NOT have a supreme verdict and really DIDN'T have a syncopade, and he didnt tap out for jace, this would ruin my chance to resolve chandra. So I thought: here take the damage while you are tapped out and please please please tap out to deal with my yp and token. Of which chances were reasonably high imo. Our Life being so high I was playing around a GOOD player. Say he draws last breath and has negate or was holding back syncopade. I as the control player would then seriously consider that the burn player is an impatient idiot and just wanted to use the chance to resolve a 3 dmg spell instead of swinging for 3 or holding something up. I would totally supereme verdict that board and expect something like a pheonix next turn.
Option 2: I hold up mana and swing
for 2 with YP. Now a good player that did not draw a last breath with his last 3 draws would most likely verdict here and eat a lightning bolt with the same conclusion of being tapped out for my chandra. If he HAD drawn a last breath he would still most likely verdict, expecting to eat a magma jet or lightning strike. Now if I assume he has the divine gift of being able to read my play, he could just last breath YP whenever I choose to cast a spell and decide to eat the damage, leave the token on board and still have to mana up to counter my chandra, while trying to hit his lands to be able to verdict plus counter and taking 1 dmg from token per turn. That would have been his only way of winning, the way I see it. Either way. He might even just verdict and hold back the last breath for mutavault in any real life descision.
Option 3: This just leaves YP open to be last breathed or charmed and to hold up counters, saving a verdict.
And this is how it played out: 3 dmg to face, 2 dmg from YP, 15 life,
pass the turn.
T4 supreme verdict from him and I draw temple, play mountain and chandra +1
T5 he plays temple, scries to the top and plays ram. I play temple, scry away a land and try to cast the drawn banishing light, which eats a negate
T6 he revs for 3 with me only having 1 mana open and I swing with my muta. He blocks with ram, I Chandra +1 and hit the ram, cast magma jet to kill the ram. One mana open yet again
T7 He cast divination and discards verdict. I draw a second BC, putting my hand at: WLH, BC, BC, LS, 5 untapped lands, one of them a muta. He has made his land drops so far and is at 6 lands. I swing with muta, he taps 2 of his 3 untapped for azorious charm, second main phase chandra ulti and triple toil for 18 dmg, knocking him down from 16.
I realize that on T5 I shouldnt have tried to banish the
damn ram and on T6 i shouldnt have attacked with muta to keep up BC incase of cleansing (stupid me, but he ended up not being able to cast it luckily). Here I make an effort to keep my chandra safe with BC on T6, and the damn ram had me so focused on trying to super-combo-kill it with Chandra, Muta and a little magma jet... I felt so proud when I killed it and my balls dropped to the floor when I realized I had passed into T6 without BC up and chandra at 7....
But damn if I see a ram and a one-card-answer to it, I dont think straight and want blood 
What would you have done? Did I overcommit to the chandra plan? Was it ok to not leave up scullcrack since I figured I had more than enough damage in hand plus a chandra ulti coming up anyways? Should I have gone with slow playing YP+ holding up boros charm? (very hard to do in
this MU imo).
