Notes & Combos
Don't think the deck is actually good atm as both Tear and the counters to Tear should auto win against you most of the time but i still managed to have around 60% WR with this.
Definitely like the 3 Vanilla with 2-1 split but running Tourmaline + Topaz over Saphire + Aquamarine due to the mandatory bounce of Aquamarine giving me a bunch of losses during testing on ladder by making Imperms live after they already used something like a Kelbek or Havnis. The actual effect of Topaz came up almost never tho.
With the ban of Instant Fusion i decided to run a 2nd Phantom Quartz and Apo, both of these came up very frequently and honestly performed better than the Instant Fusion targets did. A lot of times people used Imperm on the first effect of Phantom Quartz in games were i was able to make a 2nd and win via being able to use the 2nd eff as well as people holding interaction for Lapis Lazuli just for me to make Apo with Curious + Block.
Ash Blossom for bug as well as a chance to not have to play vs. a full combo board of any of the meta decks going 2nd as your chances of breaking boards with only engine aren't too great.
Red Reboot because you almost always auto lose to Imperm otherwise and everyone is on that atm. Also massively helps with going 2nd into Tear (if they didn't full combo), Exosister and Stun while being at least ok vs. Floo and most Rogue decks. Pretty much only suboptimal vs. Spright but even then could save you from an Imperm. All in all it was the best performing non-engine card for me.
Small World w/ Poison Rose as a bridge let's you get Scorpio (FTK) or Block off anything that isn't Ash. My idea here was that i'd rather have a completely useless bridge that bridges everything than a semi-useful bridge that only bridges 2/3 of what i want. This worked out very well in practice wich leads me to believe 3 Small World might be even better, possibly would need to cut 1 Dai for it if you want to stick to 40.
LAO conflicts with Red Reboot so i cut it for Small World and Reasoning auto lost me too many games by hitting Brilliant or Cobra with too little payoff.