I must say I really dislike your creatures. The familiars just aren't necessary. Your combo is a 3 then 4 drop so you're not really speeding anything up. Also your specter's aren't great. You really only have 8 creatures you have to have in play just to play them (kinda redundant to return the other) and if someone's keeping you at 0 creatures, it can't even be played. I'd try hypnotic, blizzard or shimian specters. Royal assassin is just not a good card anymore. You're looking at keeping the board clear, not waiting to retaliate. Necretaal would be a much better choice, shriekmaw wouldn't be bad either. They let you kill someone and keep yourself a blocker. I'd get rid of forced fruition. I personally just don't think that's a very good card, especially in a discard format. It's much better in a control/bounce deck where your opponents can't play anything or are constantly replaying cards. Plus I think 2 more howling mines would be more beneficial than 2 forced fruition. Also if you add in the extra 2 howling mines you could get rid of 1 mind twist since you'll draw into them much faster. I see this deck having real trouble against any kind of fast deck or one that drops their hand fairly quickly. Hope this helps.
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Gotta agree with Hipp. You'd only require a perfect hand to do this first turn. And you'd probably be better splashing blue for ponder/brainstorm/draw into combo
Why not add Terravore to the deck?
Grazing Gladeheart or Lifegift, Harrow, Sylvan Safekeeping to keep Ob Nixilis alive, Scapeshift