Though I didn't hit prizes, I'm happy to say BBE into Rain is filthy.

2-1 Boros Burn, 1-0 overall

Feel strongly favored enough after sideboard that I would say the match percentage is 60-70%. He won G1, I put the hurting on him from there. Keep Blood Moon in, stone wall aggression with Thrun and Finks, start swinging as soon as you can. Following a Courser with BBE into Anger was the filthiest play of the day.

1-2 Mono Black Copter, 1-1 overall

He ended up in the Top 8, deserves some amount of coverage for this brew. Plays Night Watch Lookout, Thrull Parasite, and Pain Seer to crew copter and continually drain/extort/draw cards. Also includes Blood-soaked Champion and Liliana of the Veils. Super consistent, low to the ground, mono B nasty-ness. Slower clock, but much more difficult to stabilize against than Burn. Chandra, Pyromaster would've won G3 by herself if I didn't take so long to draw into my 3rd land.

2-1 Affinity, 2-1 overall

Inferno Titan proves why it's king of the 6 drops. Shatterstorm wasn't necessary.

2-0 G/B Tron, 3-1 overall

I've been playing Ponza for more than a year, and I've never felt so dominant against Tron than I did with this list. G2, he sighed at my second consecutive stone rain effect and said, "Really?..." I looked down at my remaining hand, it's a BBE, Molten Rain, Acid Moss, SBD.

1-2 BBE Jund, 3-2 overall

Could've been a match win, had a strong G1 where I did what Ponza does. G2, he fetched through Moon and I had no rain effects, proceeded to T2 Confidant, T3 Rabblemaster, T4 Bloodbraid in bolt, killing my tracker. G3, I mulled away two completely unplayable hands to settle on a 5 with no lands.

1-2 Boros Burn, 3-3 overall

G1, kept a hand with T2 Moon on the draw. He got the T3 kill on the play without me fetching or shocking. T1 Swiftspear. T2 Lava Spike, Lava Spike. T3, Guide, Bolt, Bolt. We both laughed. G2 I fought the good fight and won by Inferno Titan ETBing my own Finks, but G3 he did the whole Searing Blaze your dork thing and that's GG without them stumbling. He didn't stumble.

Overall Thoughts

I am very comfortable with the vast majority of this 75. 8 rain/4 moon with BBE feels great, Inferno Titan and Stormbreath clean up nicely after BBE. If LD is terrible, you can side it all out, bring in abrades, all creatures, and Chandra, and have a decent midrange Moon plan. If LD is good (and it often is), you only need a few sideboard pieces like normal.

I may test/consider a Hazoret for the list, but Rhonas is dogshit for this build (and I think in general). Creates too many lines for the opponent to interfere and blank us in a combat step after we invest mana in his activations.

Never once had an issue casting Molten Rains with double red, but I didn't face any Field of Ruins. I think a second mountain is the best hedge I've seen against this, but I'd only make that call in a known meta where Moon gets sided out more often than not. And if that's the case, you probably aren't making the best call by playing Ponza.

I am thinking of dropping to 2-3 trackers and splitting them between main and sideboards, as I'd prefer something with higher pressure G1. Might also drop the Acid-Mosses, in favor of an additional Courser and Bolt. I ran a 1 of Huntmaster because I just picked up a foil, and I was never sad to see it, but it's probable that this should be another SBD. I clocked my Jund opponent from 17 to 0 in two turns with a topdeck SBD after some serious mana disruption. Monstrous is a hell of a drug.

The most controversial part of this list, imo, is the drop to 9 dorks. I am comfortable doing this because it's no less consistent than what we used to run, in terms of keeping a T2 playable hand. Previously, we ran 10 dorks and 9 honestly good T2's (1 Courser/4 Moon/4 Rain). Running 9 dorks and 13+ good T2's (1-2 Courser/4 Moon/8 Rain) produces no fewer keepable 7's. I don't think we need to run 22 lands either, if you have either 2 Courser or some number of Acid-Moss or Chandra, ToD.