[Report] RAT at NH 5/16

[Apollyon]

[insert random babblings pre-tourney]

Decklist: RAT (Rectal Agony Trix)

Combo:
4 Academy Rectors
R Yawgmoth's Bargain
2 Illusions of Grandeur
1 Donate
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Form of the Dragon (unused tech, unfortunately)
1 Seal of Cleansing
R Necropotence
R Yawgmoth's Will

Draw:
4 Brainstorm
R Ancestral Recall
R Time Walk (best cantrip ever printed)

Tutors:
R Demonic Tutor
R Vampiric Tutor
R Mystical Tutor

Disruption:
4 Therapy
4 Duress
4 Force of Will

Mana:
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
3 Scrubland
3 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
R Tolarian Academy
R Black Lotus
R Mox Jet
R Mox Sapphire
R Mox Emerald
R Mox Pearl
R Mana Crypt
R Mana Vault
R Sol Ring
4 Dark Ritual

Sideboard:
R Balance
2 Rebuild
2 Stifle
2 Hydroblast
2 Engineered Plague (vs Slaver to stop their Welders and Pentavites)
2 Coffin Purge
1 Smother
1 Echoing Truth
1 Abeyance
1 Tendrils of Agony

Round 1 (Jesse playing Draw7):

Game 1: He gets turn 1 Ancestral into 2 Moxen and a Sol Ring, but he can't do anything. I get the first turn Duress taking away his Windfall. He dies there, and I combo out at my leisure.

Game 2: He goes off early, gets out a Tinker for a Jar, but he waits to pop the Jar with a decent Storm count. The next turn, he starts going off, but he dies with a Storm of 6, so he Tendrils me down to 5. I Vamp, get Will, and randomly win with a handful of Dark Rituals, and a Tendrils.

1-0

Round 2: Griffin (Sui)

I'm ashamed to say I lost this. He gets lots of Wastelands both games and stops my turn 2 Bargains.

1-1

Round 3: Steve (Workshop and Welder.dec (Smmenen doesn't like me calling it Stacker))

Game 1:
He gets Juggernaut, Wastelands, and a Tangle Wire, I can't stop him.

Game 2:
Chalice of the Void likes my deck. He gets a turn 1 Chalice for 1 out, and my entire hand of Ancestral, Ritual, Ritual, Jet, Therapy, Sea, Demonic is useless.

1-2

Round 4: Brett (Playing Rector Trix)

Game 1: I combo out and get the win.

Game 2: He gets an early Illusions to my Bargain (he has the Donate in hand, but he can't cast it). I combo out, taking a Seal of Cleansing out of the graveyard (I used it to destroy a Jar, if I recall correctly), Seal his Illusions, and combo out with Tendrils.

2-2

Round 5: Chris (don't remember what he was playing, except that it was U/R and had Blood Moons main)

Game 1: I combo out, getting a Bargain, draw until I can't anymore, cast and Illusions, and draw more. After drawing lots of cards, I win.

Game 2: He starts to get going, but I combo out and win.

3-2

Round 6: Nate (U/G Madness)

Games 1, 2, and 3: He gets Mongrel, Rootwallas, Aquamoeba, and Wurm.

Game 1 and 3: I pull both these out narrowly (comboing out while he has lethal damage on the board). I get random brokenness of Rituals, Win, and a Tutor.

Game 2: I can't combo out. I lose.

4-2.

Top 8:
Soon to come.