There's a lot here, but basically, if you run basics, or burn, or damage or want to shut down life gain at your table, enter this Win Con on a stick like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, with less set up needed, but still few colors to minimize its damage to you
Security for Deck Boxes on the Go If you travel for trading card games, go for boxes with secure locks, latches, or zipper enclosures
Turning scry into +1/+1 counters sounds interesting and I can think of a bunch of nonlegendary cards outside of the LoTR card pool that love having +1/+1 counters put on them
I was still live for Top 8 going into round 14, but sadly lost to a great player named Julien Henry who played, you guessed it, a Deathmist Raptor deck
It also lets you create a tapped Treasure token whenever you discard a land card