Desperate Ritual

It's tricky.

If you counter the Desperate Ritual, oftentimes Ral is gonna be dead in the water, but if you don't and you say, "I think I'll be a little greedy here," yeah, you can have the Desperate Ritual.

Okay, you're dead now, 'cause it doesn't matter.

I don't need to resolve any more spells.

There's 18 mana sources, and they're not, like, Arcane Signet.

It's like Lotus Petal, Ruby Medallion, Rite of Flame, Battle Hymn, Desperate Ritual, Pyretic Ritual, Storm-Kiln Artist.

Like, these are cards that are powerful and fast.

Like, this is a turbo deck secret- I mean, not secretly, but, like, it is a turbo deck.

And like, how do you know if someone tutors, if someone casts their commander that's a combo piece, the table might also let you know as well.

The thing that you counter on Raul is the Desperate Ritual.

The Raul player's never gonna tell you that, but- never gonna know you know what i mean i have two more cards on hand and the rest of the table is gonna say

yes you should counter the desperate ritual right yeah too right so like they're gonna try to get you to use your interaction as well but

i think asking the table and getting information while knowing that your opponents don't have your best interest in mind and technically they could lie they're allowed to lie it's unlikely that most players would lie because they know the value of lying long term is pretty net negative because once you're known as a liar you can't get away with any deals going forward and sometimes you need to get away with the deal you have to like you have to be able to trust your opponents otherwise you're just going to lose a lot more games

also people might just go hey he's a liar let's just get him out of the game really quickly and then we don't have to worry about what they're going to do