Ritual Desire

Gerrardfo · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

Ritual Desire, as played by Jelger Wiegersma:
4 Geothermal Crevice
4 Ancient Spring
4 Sulfur Vent
3 Polluted Delta
2 Bloodstained Mire
1 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave
1 Blood Crypt
1 Swamp
4 Cabal Ritual
4 Rite of Flame
4 Seething Song
4 Burning Wish
3 Mind's Desire
3 Sins of the Past
3 Duress
1 Tendrils of Agony
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Careful Study
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Chromatic Star
//Sideboard:
SB: 4 Defense Grid
SB: 1 Shattering Spree
SB: 1 Channel the Suns
SB: 1 Empty the Warrens
SB: 1 Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 Sins of the Past
SB: 1 Mind's Desire
SB: 1 Duress
SB: 1 Pyroclasm
SB: 2 Chain of Vapor
SB: 1 Hull Breach

Ritual Desire, as played by Raphael Levy:
4 Sulfur Vent
3 Gemstone Mine
4 Geothermal Crevice
4 Tinder Farm
2 Channel the Suns
4 Rite of Flame
4 Darkwater Egg
4 Seething Song
4 Cabal Ritual
2 Infernal Tutor
2 Plunge into Darkness
4 Burning Wish
3 Mind's Desire
3 Sins of the Past
1 Tendrils of Agony
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Chrome Mox
4 Chromatic Star
//Sideboard:
SB: 2 Empty the Warrens
SB: 1 Mind's Desire
SB: 1 Hull Breach
SB: 1 Pyroclasm
SB: 2 Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 Channel the Suns
SB: 4 Duress
SB: 3 Orim's Chant

How could the deck/sideboard be changed? How could the matchups be improved? Discuss!

Quantumdemon · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 56

// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)
// NAME: Mind's Desire - QD

// Lands
3 [TSB] Gemstone Mine
4 [IN] Sulfur Vent
4 [IN] Ancient Spring
4 [IN] Geothermal Crevice

// Spells
1 [ON] Chain of Vapor
3 [7E] Duress
1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
3 [SC] Mind's Desire
4 [TSP] Chromatic Star
4 [OD] Careful Study
4 [TSP] Lotus Bloom
1 [FD] Plunge into Darkness
2 [DIS] Infernal Tutor
3 [MR] Chrome Mox
3 [RAV] Sins of the Past
4 [JU] Burning Wish
4 [9E] Seething Song
4 [CS] Rite of Flame
4 [TO] Cabal Ritual

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [PS] Hullbreach
SB: 1 [ON] Chain of Vapor
SB: 1 [7E] Duress
SB: 2 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 [SC] Mind's Desire
SB: 4 [9E] Defense Grid
SB: 1 [GP] Shattering Spree
SB: 1 [FD] Channel the Suns
SB: 1 [9E] Pyroclasm
SB: 2 [TSP] Empty the Warrens

This is what I play :-\

hamslice · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 9

/ Lands
3 [TSB] Gemstone Mine
4 [IN] Sulfur Vent
4 [IN] Tinder Farm
4 [IN] Geothermal Crevice

// Spells
1 [ON] Chain of Vapor
1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
3 [SC] Mind's Desire
4 [TSP] Chromatic Star
4 Darkwater Eggs
3 Sensei's Top
4 [TSP] Lotus Bloom
2 [FD] Plunge into Darkness
2 [DIS] Infernal Tutor
4 [MR] Chrome Mox
2 [RAV] Sins of the Past
4 [JU] Burning Wish
4 [9E] Seething Song
4 [CS] Rite of Flame
4 [TO] Cabal Ritual

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [PS] Hullbreach
SB: 1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 [SC] Mind's Desire
SB: 1 Sins of the Past
SB: 3 [9E] Defense Grid
SB: 3 Quicken
SB: 1 [FD] Channel the Suns
SB: 1 [9E] Pyroclasm
SB: 3 [TSP] Empty the Warrens

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 767

I think that Shatering Spree and Chain of Vapor are really important to the Afinity matchup. I would think about one more of each in the sb. Also the deck needs a soild answer to Chant. Not the deck just the spell.

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 767

// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)

// Lands
4 [IN] Geothermal Crevice
4 [IN] Ancient Spring
4 [IN] Sulfur Vent
4 [IN] Irrigation Ditch

// Spells
4 [CHK] Sensei's Divining Top
4 [TSP] Chromatic Star
4 [OD] Careful Study
4 [TSP] Lotus Bloom
4 [CS] Rite of Flame
4 [TO] Cabal Ritual
4 [MR] Seething Song
3 [FD] Channel the Suns
4 [JU] Burning Wish
3 [RAV] Sins of the Past
3 [SC] Mind's Desire
1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
1 [ON] Chain of Vapor
1 [TSP] Empty the Warrens

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [FD] Channel the Suns
SB: 1 [RAV] Sins of the Past
SB: 1 [SC] Mind's Desire
SB: 1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 [TSP] Empty the Warrens
SB: 4 [8E] Defense Grid
SB: 1 [US] Duress
SB: 1 [JU] Cabal Therapy
SB: 1 [GP] Shattering Spree
SB: 1 [IN] Breath of Darigaaz
SB: 1 [PS] Hull Breach
SB: 1 [OD] Decimate

I think that the first think the you will see is the SB changes. I think that Breath of Darigaaz is better in most matchup then Pyroclasm. Decimate is good but can not be played in in every matchup. (it is a good anwser to a Bob with Armadillo Cloak and Umezawa's Jitte on it. That is really scary! ) I am not really sure about the one Cabal Therapy in the SB. It is nice to have also. So anymore thoughts?

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 767

I can't help but to love this deck but it is one turn to slow to beat Dredge decks. I have the deck tuned to go off on turn three now what am I missing that can improve the deck. For referance this is the most updated list that I am playing. My list is close to a merging of the three lists that I have seen. Here are the links to the lists that I hve referanced for this build.

Mind's Desire by Brian Schneider 1st place 1-6-2008

TEPS by Brandon Scheel, winner Gen Con Extended $1000

TEPS Desire played by Frank Karsten

Here is the list that I made from the merging of the three differant builds and updated sideboard to fight Dredge and Affinty decks. The deck does still have it's flaws (Trickbind and Discard weakness) I think that it's still a strong and budget minded deck choice. (damn the puns)*

http://www.magicworkstation.com

// Lands
4 [IN] Sulfur Vent
4 [IN] Geothermal Crevice
4 [TSB] Gemstone Mine
2 [IN] Ancient Spring
2 [IN] Tinder Farm

// Spells
4 [TSP] Lotus Bloom
4 [MR] Chrome Mox
4 [TSP] Chromatic Star
4 [MR] Chromatic Sphere
4 [CS] Rite of Flame
4 [TO] Cabal Ritual
4 [MR] Seething Song
4 [DIS] Infernal Tutor
4 [JU] Burning Wish
3 [SC] Mind's Desire
2 [FD] Channel the Suns
2 [RAV] Sins of the Past
1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [SC] Mind's Desire
SB: 1 [RAV] Sins of the Past
SB: 1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 [PS] Hull Breach
SB: 1 [TSP] Empty the Warrens
SB: 3 [PS] Orim's Chant
SB: 3 [DS] Echoing Truth
SB: 4 [TSB] Tormod's Crypt

* HTML links to www.magiccards.info provided for ease of use by the readers of this post. My thanks to the www.magiccards.info team. I would also like to thank all of the other authors of the referanced documents.