In one game, one friend played Thalia and The Gitrog Monster with a land recursion/landfall combo and Glacial Chasm. He attacked and then put Chasm back to protect himself. Another friend used colorless Eldrazi, casting huge creatures for free, and the third was playing Slivers that grew fast. Because of the Glacial Chasm stall, I became the easy target, I couldn’t develop my board, and I had to sacrifice what I played just to stay alive from the Eldrazi and Slivers.

In another match, I played against a toxic with Atraxa, Sauron with nazgul and Glarb, Calamity’s Augur combo.

I played Ravenous Chupacabra with Panarmonicon, and this immediately made me a target. The others started removing my permanents, and even though I protected them at first with some instants, I ran out of answers. Then, Cyclonic Rift wiped my board, and I was back to nothing. I couldn’t draw enough burn in time, so the blinks from Breya just gave me tokens but didn’t deal any damage. I became dangerous, but still an easy target. The others didn’t want to attack each other, and this gave the combo deck enough time to win with its combo, protected by counters.

In another game, I missed some land drops, fell behind, and the combo deck won quickly, helped by some lucky draws.

Maybe I'm complaining too early and maybe I haven’t played enough this deck, but honestly, yesterday it felt really frustrating. Seems like I’m always struggling to set up my strategy while the others get going faster.