I was determined to find a use for Secret Rendezvous other than draft chaff, and I believe this deck is the best way to utilise such a card.
(The name of this deck derives from the idea of the Crystal Skull from Indiana Jones killing people with overwhelming knowledge, because we're making them draw so many cards and that knowledge hurts them).
Gameplan:
The objective is to kill your opponent by forcing them to draw cards and then punishing them for it.
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted and Underworld Dreams will chip away at our opponents life total.
Foreboding Fruit, Blood Pact and Sign in Blood can either help us dig through our deck, or hurt our opponent while making them draw and hurt even more.
Secret Rendezvous is the star card of the deck, drawing both players three cards.
Smothering Tithe will generate more mana from all their draw, which means cards like Secret Rendezvous will actually pay themselves back entirely.
Wrath of God and Shatter the Sky keep the board clear, with the latter also causing our opponents to draw if they have a big enough creature.
The mana base for this deck has to be as flexible as possible, seeing as we might need to go from a turn 3 Underworld Dreams () into a turn 4 Shatter the Sky (). To alleviate this, we run 12 swamps and 12 dual lands, all of which can come in untapped.
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