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New to the forum and Modern, but I was wondering with the slowing down of Modern could a Faery control deck work now. This is what I'm working with right now:

Lands:

4 x *Drowned Catacomb
4 x *Scalding Tarn
4 x *Secluded Glen
4 x *Watery Grave
3 x *Tectonic Edge
2 x *Creeping Tar Pit
2 x *Island


Creatures:
4 x *Spellstutter Sprite
4 x *Pestermite
4 x *Vendilion Clique
4 x *Mistbind Clique
3 x *Snapcaster Mage
2 x *Scion of Oona
1 x *Oona, Queen of the Fae


Spells:
2 x *Spell Snare
4 x *Rune Snag
3 x *Familiar's Ruse
2 x *Smother
1 x *Slaughter Pact
1 x *Doom Blade
2 x *Sword of Feast and Famine


SIDEBOARD:
3 x *Damnation
3 x *Faerie Harbinger
3 x *Glen Elendra Archmage
2 x *Nihil Spellbomb
2 x *Vedalken Shackles
2 x *Sower of Temptation
 

Im not sold on the Harbinger right now but as my knowledge of older cards is weak I don't know what to replace it with. I have also considered throwing in 4 Bobs to the main.

 

Replace Oona with a 4th snapcaster?

And what cards should I be looking out for with trickbind? 

I reccomend aether vial and mutavault.

I actually don't think Aether Vial fits in the deck. Why? Because:
a) It makes your dudes Instant speed:
and as we know, almost every faerie is instant speed.
b) It gives you a discount so you can counter doods
not relevant, because you always hold up counter mana because ALL your dudes come end of turn, or cripple the opponents turn.

Edit:
Cryptic Command instead of Familiar's Ruse?

It does. Fae are a fish deck. While it's absolutely asinine that BB got banned (honestly, I was looking forward to re-assembling fae...) you're playing Draw-go except you've got them on a clock, which makes it act more like aggro with a heavy disruption suite.

Against aggro you'll find yourself running low on gas and possibly somewhat outmuscled. Depending on what kind of a time walk you need, by turns 4-6 one of the options (although counter-tap all is really only viable if they're stupid enough to  play a spell during their first main phase) will let you seal the deal.

Needs more scions, I'd say. Ruse always looked amazing, but the fact that it's completely dead if you stumble against any other control deck or any deck with burn. just... hurts.

Also, needs moar cashsieve.

Pestermine is cool, but he's basically another trick that buys you time against aggro or that forces a play from control. I'd cut 2 for a conclave and something else.

Also, you need more card draw. The mage is cool, but... well, as amazing as he is, you need more raw CA. BSZ fits our game-plan, unlike Jace 1 (the go-to fae found after Ancestral rotated out of t2). A 1-of equipment is traditonal, although with the lack of BB that's less guaranteed usefull. With Jitte gone it's be fire and ice, if anything, but... eh. It wouldn't be coming down till turn 8 or so, by which point it'd be over anyways, I suppose.