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Thanks for the invitation.
I'll take part

@Nemavera: Teeg/Thalia/Censor suck right?

Btw, congrats winning the thing with "almost-tps"!!

Thanks :>
Yeah, the winning list had just Karakas, Repeal and Beacon (and counterspells) as outs.

Back to topic:
To my mind the format is really balanced, but I'm aware that there are many "sick" cards like Oath, NO or Stoneforge Mystic. Yet HL is an eternal format, so it's in its nature that we have some really powerful cards. And if you're playing Griselbrand to cheat it into play via Oath and your opponent plays Bribery, well you're screwed.
IF Oath would become a dominant strategy (which it is not at the moment) you could consider banning it again, but at the moment, there is no reason at all.

As already stated above:

My deck ist NOT a TPS deck. It does in fact share a lot of cards, nevertheless it plays out in a completely different way.
To my mind the best description is Combo-Control. I just cut all creature-removal for a fast kill and tried to race aggro instead of trying to outlast them.
Moreover I just cut all crappy Oath-creatures and decided to run a 100%-kill if oath triggers once. Nothing sucks more than putting Emrakul or some other shitty creature into play and then getting it o-ringed/pathed/sworded.
I studied the format, found out that control-decks have to play lots of creature-removal and that the format is nearly all about boardpresence and boardcontrol. So I built a deck that wins on the stack and without creatures.

If you test the deck, please change the deck in the following way:

-Necropotence
-Beacon of Destruction
-Noxious Revival
-Past in Flames

+Meditate
+Elektolyze
+Fire/Ice
+Izzet Charm

Greetings
Christoph Alsheimer