{deck} Casual Academy

[Byron]

Academy ver.3.2

mana
4 tolarian academy
4 tropical island
1 polluted delta
1 flooded strand
1 windswept heath
1 wooded foothills
4 lotus petal
4 sol ring
4 mana crypt
4 mana vault
4 lion’s eye diamond
4 crop rotation
3 mind over matter

card drawing
4 memory jar
4 tinker
4 time spiral
4 windfall
2 braingeyser

counterspell hate
3 defense grid

misc. info
49 restricted cards/13 separate cards
16 colored mana
16 colorless mana
14 blue spells

Maybe i'm wrong but I just don't like Mind's Desire. Perhaps someone else can test it and post their results? What do you cut for it anyways?

Bargain ver.1.3

lands
8 Swamp

artifact mana
4 Mana Vault
4 Mana Crypt
4 Sol Ring
4 Lotus Petal
4 Chrome Mox

instant mana
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual

card advantage
4 Necropotence
4 Yawgmoth's Bargain

tutors
4 Demonic Consultation
4 Demonic Tutor

finishers
4 Tendrils of Agony

counterspell hate
4 Duress

misc. info
36 restricted cards/9 seperate cards
16 black mana
20 colorless mana
32 black spells

I don't think the NecroBargain deck needs Y.Will (it's more for the Necro part than the Bargain I think) and Necro is mostly there to draw into Bargain. Duress is cheap and should be able to handle any counters you may face (and if they have more counter's than you can Duress, they'd probably just counter your Will, then you'd be out 3 mana instead of 1. I think Will is just for more consistency vs non-blue decks so you need Duress more as Force of Will is your worst nightmare here. All the deck needs is a single Tendril after going off w/Bargain for the win. And if you somehow don't suck 20+ life from them you'll most certainly draw into another Tendril/tutor for Tendril and the mana to cast it.

[nataz]

And you can totally chain desires together. Say you have a storm 6 going with your first desire. Flip over 5 cards, and play them, whatever. You flip the 6th, and its a desire. Play the desire AGAIN for 6 storm, this time for free for a total of 12 free spells.

4x Desire is so good in these decks. Who needs duress, you cant even counter it (well you can, but it won't stop the storm copies)?

[Byron]

Academy ver.3.3

-3 Defense Grid
-1 Mind Over Matter
-2 Braingeyser

+4 Mind's Desire
+2 Cunning Wish

SB
2 Stroke of Genius

I feel sorta uneasy about not having any defense vs counters but everyone keeps talking about how broken Mind's Desire is, so i'll add them back in... for now. 

[Byron]

4x Desire is so good in these decks. Who needs duress, you cant even counter it (well you can, but it won't stop the storm copies)?

Duress is to help get Necro/Bargain on board. The alternative is to Will them from the graveyard if they're countered/destroyed but Duress costs only 1 black mana as opposed to Y.Will's 2B.

[wethepeople]

Byron, if you just want to punish your friends for not playing with banned/restricted lists, just play this list:

4 Swamp

4 Mana Vault
4 Mana Crypt
4 Sol Ring
4 Lotus Petal
4 Chrome Mox
4 Lion's Eye Diamond

4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual

4 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Yawgmoth's Bargain
4 Necropotence

4 Demonic Consultation
4 Demonic Tutor

4 Tendrils of Agony

You should win approximately 100% of these games.  If you want to switch out Necropotence for Duress if they're playing with Force of Wills, okay then.

I goldfished 10 games with this deck and I got: 5) turn 3 kills, 3) turn 2 kills and 2) turn 1 kills! It plays exactly like the Bargain/NecroDonate decks of old. Step 1, get Bargain into play. Step 2, draw cards and win! Bargain seems a lot more consistent (though potentially weaker vs counters) than Academy.

Props go to Evenpence for the original decklist.

Keep in my that Colby was kidding when he said that. All that list is is a broken list of restricted accel that will garuntee you to win. If you think about it, that deck is more broken that most real Vintage combo decks. I am pretty sure your friends would get up and leave when you goldfish turn 1-2 and request a second game.

[Byron]

Yeah, I don't even carry around either my Academy or Bargain decks around anymore. I haven't found any rulebreakers recently so there's no reason to teach anyone a lesson. Also, I played the Bargain deck against some guy for fun during states (between rounds mind you) and I scored a second turn kill. I promptly put the deck away and we played vintage the rest of the time.