Someone took my deck!!!

Okay, not really, but this list made Top 8 down in Portland:

Daniel Lopez
7th Place - Oregon - Portland
4 Ancient Ziggurat
2 Brushland
4 Karplusan Forest
4 Mosswort Bridge
1 Mountain
1 Plains
4 Reflecting Pool

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
3 Cliffrunner Behemoth
3 Dauntless Escort
4 Mycoid Shepherd
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Spellbreaker Behemoth
3 Wilt-Leaf Liege
4 Woolly Thoctar

3 Naya Charm
4 Path to Exile

Sideboard:
3 Anathemancer
1 Brion Stoutarm
1 Dauntless Escort
4 Gaddock Teeg
1 Naya Charm
4 Volcanic Fallout
1 Wilt-Leaf Liege

First thing I noticed is that the deck plays twice as few lands as I do... maybe I'm just a big chicken, but 22 lands gives me so many one-landers that I generally send away unless I have 2 Birds that I can cast off of it. I already have to mulligan tons with my list, although I would consider cutting one land for a three-drop.

Then, this deck is just filled with four drops and absolutely devoid of two-drops. In fact, let's look at the mana curve for creatures:

1cc: 8
2cc: 0
3cc: 11
4cc: 14

I do like some of the creatures he did play, like Cliffrunner Behemoth (although my deck will only trigger it's haste off of one guy, where he has a few more). Spellbreaker Behemoth doesn't have a very relevant ability, unless you consider being enormous an ability.

He runs Anathemancer in the side, which he can only cast off of Birds and Ancient Ziggurat. I have problems with running the full set of Ziggurats because it can't cast Path or Naya Charm. I like the idea of Brion Stoutarm to add more reach to the deck, as if Naya Charm weren't enough (against the Fog-ish decks, however...)

Anyway, he probably rode to the top 8 on those Naya Charms, as they are so good when you play creatures like these and they're tapping out to clog the board out every turn. Go go Naya Charm!