M2 G2/3: I was really surprised to see you cut Parallax Wave. It didn’t look like he had any win conditions beyond creates and your removal was pretty light. Parallax Wave basically blanks all his win conditions, no?

Please review Match 1, Game 1 @ 8:45 and consider this line of play:

1. Cast Ajani
2. Use -3 to give Grand Arbiter Flying + Double Strike
3. Attack Garruk with Grand Arbiter and send Looter @ your opponent.

This kills Garruk, draws you a card, lets you use another activation of Tradewind Rider (he shouldn’t have attacked) to bounce his Hystrodon, AND still lets you keep your 2 Spirit tokens back to block.

Then, post-combat you can play your Venser and use it to bounce your Ajani back up to 4 loyalty. Alternatively, you can use the Venser to bounce Tradewind Rider for another blocker, hoping your opponent will attack your Ajani. (to save you life, as you were only at 8) Then just let him kill the Ajani so you can cast Sun Titan and bring it back on the next turn.

Given he had Pack of Negation, your Ajani would have been countered. This also would have been better than having Venser countered, as Sun Titan can bring it back. You could have then bounced his Hystrodon, knowing he’d have to pay the mana cost for Pact of Negation which would leave him unable to replay Hystrodon. (Effectively saving you 4 life, Time Walking him for 2 attack phases, and preventing him from drawing a card.)