Antoine Ruel Decklist

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Crosis's Charm

Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.

Salt Marsh

Salt Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Tsabo's Assassin

{T}: Destroy target creature if it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Island

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Teferi's Response

Counter target spell or ability an opponent controls that targets a land you control. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, destroy that permanent.
Draw two cards.

Urza's Rage

Kicker {8}{R} (You may pay an additional {8}{R} as you cast this spell.)
This spell can't be countered.
Urza's Rage deals 3 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, instead it deals 10 damage to that permanent or player and the damage can't be prevented.

Nether Spirit

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Spirit is the only creature card in your graveyard, you may return Nether Spirit to the battlefield.

Lobotomy

Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Accumulated Knowledge

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Undermine

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Fire

Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

Fire // Ice

Malice

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Spite

Spite // Malice

Tsabo's Decree

Choose a creature type. Target player reveals their hand and discards all creature cards of that type. Then destroy all creatures of that type that player controls. They can't be regenerated.

Counterspell

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Engineered Plague

As Engineered Plague enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.

Antoine Ruel Bio

A member of the famous Team Block Ops, Antoine Ruel, a native of Aubervilliers, France, took his blue-black-red control deck to a third-place finish at this year's World Championships. Ruel credits his teammate Laurent Pagorek for the deck that he calls "AK-Go." The deck, which Ruel played to a 5—1 record during the Standard portion of the tournament, relies on card drawing (most notably Accumulated Knowledge, or "AK" for short), countermagic ("Go," for short), red for board control, and Nether Spirits for the win.

Tsabo's Web

When Tsabo's Web enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Each land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.