*sigh*
Well, SOMEONE had to do it. (Playtest results follow, Isty was NOT playing his deck, but I'm calling it "Isty.dec" for reference purposes.)
Game 1 vs. Fires:
Both decks start slow. Battleflies with S. Strength is Assaulted after only getting 3 damage through. Rats gets a K. Forest. Jade Leech gets played. Crypt Rats hits. Crypt Rats is assaulted after Ravenous Rats chumps the Leech. Topdecked Duress gets nothing, Maggot Carrier gets played. It proceeds to chump a Leech. Foul Imp is played. Two-Header hits as Fires finally draws land #6. Foul Imp is forced to chump since it dies to the Dragon if it attacks. Abyssal Specter is played, and chumps the Dragon as Isty.dec takes five from the Leech (13). Dragon #2 hits, and that's all she wrote.
Analysis: Below-average hands for both decks, although Fires still went very quickly. 1/1 threats forced to chump the Leech lost the game. Snuff Out would have helped a LOT.
Game 2:
Foul Imp is the first creature. Fires spends its second turn Porting. Foul Imp hits. Idol goes down from Fires. Isty.dec proceeds to lay land #4, Bog Down with Kicker, Ritual, and Bog down again, forcing Fires to discard their entire hand - 2x Dragons, 1x Fires, 1x Burst, 1x Dust Bowl. Foul Imp makes it 18-16 in favor of Isty. Fires topdecks and plays Idol #2, and it goes to 15-16 Fire's favor. Isty.dec plays Thug and Unholy Strengths it. Fires plays a Bird and serves for 6. (9-14 Fires.) Birds chumps thugs, Fires goes to 12. Ravenous Rats gets nothing, but chumps an Idol. Abyssal Specter gets played to chump another Idol (6-6, no favor.) Fires is forced to reserve an Idol to block, and Isty.dec does not block with the Specter, going to 3. (3-6, Fires.) Specter serves, leaving 2 critter to chump. (3-4, Fires.) Specter eats a Dragon. Fires goes to 3 from a painland, drawing land #4 to play its Leech. Serves with 2x Idols, forcing two chumps. One Idol dies. No life changes. Isty.dec has 2 power worth of creatures, Fires is at three, and Isty.deck will need to chump next turn with 2 creatures to live. Draws Spineless Thug, and loses.
Analysis: Sub-par draw for Fires, GREAT Bog Down tricks by Isty.dec, but its creatures were too small to keep up a race against two Idols.
Game 3 vs. Fires:
Battleflies is matched by Birds on turn 1. Turn 2 has Unholy Strength and an attack for 3, matched by an Idol by Fires. Crypt Rats gets played, and the Flies hit for 2. Leech gets played (where are the Blastys?
), and Idol hits for 3. Spineless Thug gets played, and the Flies hit for 3 again. (17-12, Isty.dec.) Fires plays another Idol and a Llanowar, and attacks for 8 with an Idol and a Leech. Isty.dec takes it all, going to 9. Isty.dec plays an Imp, and Serves with the Flies for 2, leaving 1 mana untapped. Fires serves with 2x Idol and a Leech. Foul Imp blocks the Leech, Crypt Rats blocks an Idol, damage stacked, Ritual, Rats for 3. Board = Cleared.
It is, however, 10-2 in favor of Fires, since the Imp stole some life. Spineless Thug is the first creature, played on Isty.dec's next turn. Fires draws land. 8-2. Fires draws land. Specter drawn and played. 6-2. Fires draws land. Crypt Rats gets played. Specter eats... LAND!
2-2. Fires peels Assault. Isty.dec dies to Assault.
Analysis: Tense. The last few turns were very strange, and thought Fires pulled it outk, it looked like Isty had it for a while. Saying "Lucky topdeck" doesn't really excuse it in this case, since Isty.dec DID go to 2, and DID get Fires to draw two land first.
Game 4 vs. Fires:
Turn 1 Flies and Llanowars face off. A Duress steals an Assault, and the Flies get all Unholy on Fire's ass. Birds come down, and Isty.dec gets Ported (mana being fed into Flies). The Flies go all Sinister, and come in for SIX. Leech hits to bring some offense to Fires. The score goes to 20-7 in Isty.dec's favor as a Crypt Rats comes down and the Flies go over again. Leech #2 gets played, and Leech #1 serves. The Rats do their thing, removing the Birds, and the Flies serves for lethal damage.
Analysis: A fairly solid win. Isty.dec didn't take any serious hits, but the sheer power of the Flies was enough. The Duress was actually topdecked, and was very lucky, since an Assault would have turned the game 180 degrees.
Game 5 vs. Fires:
Fires opens with a Birds again. Isty.dec plays a Ritual, Duress, Foul Imp, taking an Idol. Fires plays Fires. The Imp goes all Sinister and comes over for 5. (15-18 Isty.dec.) Fires fails to draw land and just lays an Idol and serves, evening the score. Maggot Carrier hits and the scores go to 9-14. Fires doesn't draw land again, plays 2x Elves, and serves with the Idol. Isty.dec hits again, making it 4-11. Fires plays a Burst. Removes 4 counters, and attacks for 15 with the Idol. An unblocked 3/3 gets Fires-ed, and Isty.dec dies.
Analysis: A slightly mana light hand by Fires, a very agressive hand by Isty.dec. The Flies have been powerful, but it should be noted that Fires could have lived even another turn by blocking with the Birds, and that the Burst was not topdecked.
Game 6 vs. Fires:
Fires does the "Painland, Bird" dance of pain. Battleflies hits on the other side. They're blown out of the skies. A Spineless Thug tries to replace them. It gets Assaulted. Bog Down does some massive hand-raping to Fires. Fires Ports Isty.dec, but that doesn't stop a Rat from eating Fires last card, a Dragon. Fires peels and plays a Burst. A Foul Imp hits, and Fires serves with a 5/5 Saproling. Isty.dec takes 5, 15-20 Fires. Isty serves with only the Imp (Rats would get Bursted), and plays a Thug. (15-17.) The Saproling serves again, and gets blocked by a Rats. Llanowar gets played. The Imp serves. (15-15.) Maggot carrier takes it to 14-14. The Imp get Assaulted. The Saproling serves, making it 11-14. Razortooth rats gets dropped, and the Carrier and Thug make it 11-12. Fires draws nothing worth while, and keeps its 2/2 Saproling back on D. The Saproling blocks a Thug, and the Llanowar blocks the Carrier. The Thug is replaced quickly. Isty.dec attacks for 4 damage as Fires draws Port #2. 8-6. Fires draws and plays a second Burst. Due to the double-Porting, Isty.dec can do nothing but pass the turn. 2 4/4s go for the head, and unable to take the damage, Isty.dec has to chump with the Rats. No play on the next turn, and Isty.dec dies to little Saprolings and an Assault.
Phew. I'll continue this later. Exhausting!