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I'm pretty sure you're Ron Weasley Galt is Africa, etc.

Ended up with a fuckton of removal as usual (3x sleep paralysis, 2x murderous compulsion, biting rain, just the wind, press for answers, deny existence x3 but I only ran one), some draw (ongoing investigation 'cause I had a bunch of flyers, press, catalog x2 but again only used one), and flyers (stitchwing skaab x2 but only ran one, mindwrack demon, crow, niblis of dusk) and recursion (waltz x2 and ever after that I got passed p2 after taking 6-7 black cards p1).
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Oh, right. 10 creatures in the deck. Stallion ('cause delirium easily achieved), hound (wanted a big thing, too), homonculus, ghoulcaller's accomplice, rancid rats (which are actually super good, and even better against bad players like me who're afraid to attack into it (unlike me)) and drunau corpsetrawler (drafted 3, only used 1).

My deck is bad because it's fine and all to be able to recur creatures and to have all that discard and some madness payoff, but you'd actually need to find creatures before you bring them back.
First was GW who didn't like my sleep paralysis (he had always watching so compulsion was useless once it was out) and was afraid to swing his 5/4s into my rats. Probably because he didn't wanna risk me reocurring them after he saw 2 macabre waltz.
The first game lasted ~36 minutes because I stabilised at 5 life, with Collector killing two 1-thoughness as he arrived, then he and the rats stalling two 5/4s who'd only trade without a trick, and my skaab and demon were in my last 9 cards so I had to ping with the niblis. I was only afraid of the demon being in my last 5 cards because that'd prevent me from playing him, otherwise Ever After was my anti-mill insurancy. It was the 8th card so all good.
Deny Existence cockblocked a Cult of the Waxing Moon each game, value.

Then a bye.
Then UW spirits with Rattlechains, Shepherd, Always Watching, so basically as long as he had mana no removal could ever hit him. That + vessel of ephemera, a dauntless cathar and a chaplain meant that even before the spirits came online my removal was bad, unable to deal with multiple small creatures. He'd actually have won the first game much faster had he realised he could bounce his creature under sleep paralysis and replay it (I milled one and rattlechains made the other fizzle). I flooded hard (something like 14 lands in 27 cards drawn/milled) but that wouldn't have changed a thing.

I put in more corpsetrawlers to go wider and have more creatures, ghostly wings to beef up and match his flyers (and get rid of his one sleep paralysis if needed), removed ongoing investigation (he could chump and use shepherd to deny me clues w/o losing a creature), added another deny existence because it's actually easier to keep mana and counter his spirits than to try and remove them, and I think a second stitchwing skaab? Farbog was out, and I splashed for the fog-spider to deal with all his little flyers.

Game 2 he mulled to 4 and still almost won, Always Watching on turn 4 made me unable to attack when spirits popped, in the end it was about sac-ing part of my board to biting rain to make sure his rattlechains died before he untapped to unlock the shepherd combo, developing my board while pinging with rancid rats (take that Always Watching) then swinging too wide for him.
Right before the rattlechains, I finally played the crow as I wanted to go wider/force blocks to make biting rain lethal for his buffed creatures. I waited a couple turns for this, and was rewarded with Mindwrack demon being milled. D:

Game 3 I played rats into crow, and started racing his dauntless cathar (couldn't kill it or the spirit would stall my crow). Paralysis on the apothecary, falling a bit behind in life, he went wide and I played Mindwrack because I was almost sure to get delirium from it (crow milled an enchant and land), it worked.
I was a bit menacing but he had more presence, so instead of saving biting rain for after he'd throw all his spirit tokens on the board I wiped it (save for the apothecary)... then lost the demon to puncturing light. I knew he had it in his deck and still ran straight into it, what a moron.
I didn't mind wiping the board of my precious creatures partly because I had macabre waltz in hand, and still more presence than him, so when I brought the demon back he conceded, with less than a minute on the clock anyway.

BUT THAT MAKES IT EXCITING FOR ME TOO