Apparently nobody likes this deck, but I won a Ruby with it on Sunday. The event was only 13 people, But I beat very solid players. My deck was very greedy, and I drew extremely well, but I do think this deck has potential.
3 Underground Sea
1 Badlands
1 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
2 Island
2 Swamp
5 Moxes
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Lions Eye Diamond
1 Windfall
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Timetwister
1 Mind's Desire
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Necropotence
4 Dark Ritual
3 Cabal Ritual
3 Tendril's of Agony
4 Dark Confidant
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Rebuild
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 DAZE
4 Duress
1 Sensei's Divining Top
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3 Xantid Swarm
1 Bayou
3 Extirpate
1 Tormods Crypt
4 Leyline of the Void
1 IGG
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rebuild
Here's a mini-report.
R1: LHC Grow-a-Bad-deck
Game 1, I Mull to 6 and keep a hand of bombs + Lotus. LHC Duresses me, and takes lotus. I draw a Black Mana Source (Jet), and on his end step I vampiric tutor for Dark Ritual. On my turn, I dark ritual, cast Demonic Consultation (for Dark Ritual), and reveal 2 on my first 6. Great, I thought. Dark Ritual was my last card! I still am able to cast another Dark Ritual, and play poker by casting Yawgmoth's Will. It resolves, and I cast both Vampiric and Consultation out of my yard for +2 storm, and Tendrils is in my hand.
Game 2: My hand is Solid. He duresses me turn 1, forces my Confidant on turn 2, Drains my Xantid Swarm on Turn 3, and I still consult again for dark ritual, and play Necropotence. I dispose of my opponent on turn 4.
R2: Jon Donovan Bug
Game 1 I open Lotus, Cabal Ritual, Dark Confidant, Underground Sea, Necropotence. He opens Sapphire, Jet, Duress, Ancestral, Wasteland. He has a force to stop my turn 2 attempt, and another duress. The game goes on for awhile, and I stick a confidant. On his end step,I draw 2 to my Necro, then chain it. I Flip a mana to confidant, and draw my card. I do nothing, and draw 2 more, passing back. I am then able to kill him on the next turn.
Game 2 he does what his deck does, and locks me out with cursecatchers + Denial I was 1 mana short.
Game 3: I mulligan to 5 while he mulls to 6. My hand is LED, Dark Ritual x2, Mana Crypt, and Demonic Tutor. Turn 1 I say go, and he looks at me funny. and plays delta go. I draw a bayou! I decide to go all in. Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Mana Crypt, Demonic sacking Lotus Eye Diamond for UUU. So I've got BBBBUUU in pool, and Demonic Tutor. I get will and cast it. BBBU, Lotus Eye for UUU, 2 rituals, and I have BBBBBBBUUUU. I go for Demonic, and think "hmmm... his deck plays Stifle." I get the Twister, and sure enough, he shows the stifle (while everyone is laughing). I draw 7, and I HATE THIS PLAY with TPS, but this deck is so consistant, I would have been fine with bob x2, duress, and something else. Unfortunately for Jon, I hit rituals, a duress, a consultation, and a recall. Consult hits tendrils after I duress and Recall, and I tendrils him with 14 black mana still floating, as well as 2 blue.
Round 3: Owen Turtenwald TPS
Game 1 I turn 2 him.
game 2 I tendrils'ed him to 4 turn 1, and had a second tendrils, but he duressed it out. He jars me and I would have Topdecked Will.
He tinkered a Quickie Mart, and passes turn. I go to my turn as his jar was awful, and I rip the Ill Gotten Gains I sided in. SWEET! I cast it, and he forces it. He bashes me for multiple turns as I keep drawing Fire off the top of my deck, and getting it fowed.
Game 2: I have a lotus, a pearl, an island and my hand has Recall, ponder, brainstorm, nad top in it. I kepe, and after a turn of resolving insane spell, I have 0 black sources and all black cards. We play Draw go for a ton of turns, and finally Owen casts twister with 5 black in pool. He plays Academy, and burns for 5. I duress him, and he has 5 mana sources and Fow. I take force, and kill him easily in my next turn. Unlucky Break
Round 4: ID
Top 4: Jamison Bryant StickyIcky
Game 1 he wins the roll, and I have a turn 2 twister. Unforutnately, he has double bazaar, and therapies me and Kills me before I get a 2nd turn.
game 2: I open lotus petal, Dark Ritual, Mystical Tutor, IGG, and 3 leylines. He never recovers, and I eventually kill him.
game 3 I keep ponder, vamp, lotus, mystical, lotus petal, land, land and he plays chalice at 0. and no bazaar. Through the game, He's not applying Pressure (i'm told later he had 2 answer's to leyline in hand). I eventually bounce his chalice @ 0 and Chalice @ 1 he played, even though I overthought a play and almost punted. But I still have Recall, Brainstorm, and cast desire for lethal.
Finals: Manuel Fernandez with Tezz
Game 1 he wins the roll, and plays Land, mox not-sapphire, pass. I play Jet, Duress (he has TFK and FOF, only 3 mana available next turn, and no counter, so I take is TFK), and then I play Sea, Recall. He Draws Academy for his turn, and plays it and Tormods Crypt, and passes turn. I Upkeep mystical for tendrils. I cast Dark Ritual, which he responds to with his last non-mana card: fact or fiction. He hits no force, and I cast Dark Ritual, CAbal Ritual, and a land, and Tendrils him x2. He exclaimed "oh man, you run two tendrils!". If he only knew.
Game 2 he plays mana on his turn, and I play Necropotence on mine. This is another unfair game, as I have Turn 2 Desire for 8 with mana available and Yawgmoth's Will in hand, but as he didn't counter several Key spells, I just cast will, and end up desiring for 14 instead. Tendrils is card #7.
So with a little Luck on my side, and playing a deck I'm confidant in (ha, get it?), I walk away with a Mox Ruby.
