Hi, I would like to get some feedback on a deck I've been working on for some time now. In theory, it is a Blue-Red Control with the options to win through combo, or just lock the opponent out of the game. So far I've played only one serious tournament with an older version of this deck, and while I was pretty comfortable playing it, I still felt like there are too many loose knots in the list.
As you can see from the deck, I emphasize on running pretty much only basic lands and fetchlands, because the number of free wins I can pick up from forcing through a Ruination or Back to Basics/Blood Moon effect is quite high. The Steam Vents is there just as stabilizer to be fetched with any of the fetchlands in the deck and Riptide Laboratory synergies way too well my Venser, Snapcaster, Chronarch, Glen Elendra and so on...
At this point I run both the Splinter Twin package, with a singleton Time Warp thrown into it, which can be used to achieve permalock with Chronarch every now and then, and the three-card Swans package as a win conditions.
So, here it is:
Lands: (38)
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Steam Vents
12 Mountain
17 Island
Creatures: (15)
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Gilded Drake
1 Swans of Bryn Argoll
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Pestermite
1 Deceiver Exarch
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Izzet Chronarch
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Vedalken AEthermage
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Drift of Phantasms
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Artifacts: (6)
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Dimir Signet
1 Coalition Relic
1 Vedalken Shackles
1 Izzet Signet
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Crystal Shard
Planeswalkers: (3)
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Jace Beleren
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
Enchantments: (5)
1 Future Sight
1 Blood Moon
1 Back to Basics
1 Treachery
1 Splinter Twin
Sorceries: ( 8 )
1 Conflagrate
1 Time Warp
1 Bribery
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Vision
1 Personal Tutor
1 Ruination
1 Preordain
Instants: (26)
1 Chain of Plasma
1 Force of Will
1 Pact of Negation
1 Starstorm
1 Comet Storm
1 Magma Jet
1 Condescend
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sage's Dousing
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Impulse
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Brainstorm
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Cryptic Command
1 Desertion
1 Dismiss
1 Electrolyze
1 Gush
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Counterspell
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Mana Leak
1 Fire // Ice
As you can see from the deck, I emphasize on running pretty much only basic lands and fetchlands, because the number of free wins I can pick up from forcing through a Ruination or Back to Basics/Blood Moon effect is quite high. The Steam Vents is there just as stabilizer to be fetched with any of the fetchlands in the deck and Riptide Laboratory synergies way too well my Venser, Snapcaster, Chronarch, Glen Elendra and so on...
At this point I run both the Splinter Twin package, with a singleton Time Warp thrown into it, which can be used to achieve permalock with Chronarch every now and then, and the three-card Swans package as a win conditions.
So, here it is:
Lands: (38)
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Steam Vents
12 Mountain
17 Island
Creatures: (15)
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Gilded Drake
1 Swans of Bryn Argoll
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Pestermite
1 Deceiver Exarch
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Izzet Chronarch
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Vedalken AEthermage
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Drift of Phantasms
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Artifacts: (6)
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Dimir Signet
1 Coalition Relic
1 Vedalken Shackles
1 Izzet Signet
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Crystal Shard
Planeswalkers: (3)
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Jace Beleren
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
Enchantments: (5)
1 Future Sight
1 Blood Moon
1 Back to Basics
1 Treachery
1 Splinter Twin
Sorceries: ( 8 )
1 Conflagrate
1 Time Warp
1 Bribery
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Vision
1 Personal Tutor
1 Ruination
1 Preordain
Instants: (26)
1 Chain of Plasma
1 Force of Will
1 Pact of Negation
1 Starstorm
1 Comet Storm
1 Magma Jet
1 Condescend
1 Flusterstorm
1 Sage's Dousing
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Impulse
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Brainstorm
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Cryptic Command
1 Desertion
1 Dismiss
1 Electrolyze
1 Gush
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Counterspell
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Mana Leak
1 Fire // Ice