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Dec 7, 2011 -- 9:52AM, MadAdmiral wrote:

Not much of a control deck if you can't have any interactions for two turns.  You'll just straight up lose to a aggro deck on the play.  Really, a pretty horrible build in general.

Cut the Trepanation Blade, Mindshriekers and Sphinx.  They're not doing you any favors.  Cut the Sundials.  They're also not helping you.  Cut the enchantments.  Your fatties don't need beefing up.  I'm also not a huge fan of that Glimmerpoint Stag.  Also, the Cackling Counterpart is pretty much a dead card early game and "win more" late game.  It can probably go.  So that's 15-20 cards to add.

I'd look to add some cheap threats/removal and some better cards overall.  Perhaps some 4x Vapor Snag s.  Add in 4x Snapcaster Mage .  Add some Ponder and/or  Think Twice (4 total).  Probably should stick in 3-4x Timely Reinforcements s to stablize after the early game.  Maybe add in 2x Gideon Jura for another big threat.  Take a couple of Phantasmal Images and you're a lot closer to a playable deck.  You might want to consider upping the counter package as well, but I'll leave that as is for the moment

With all that, the deck looks something like this:

7 x Plains
11 x Island
2 x Ghost Quarter
4 x Glacial Fortress

4 x Aether Adept
2 x Sun Titan
4 x Snapcaster Mage
3 x Phantasmal Image

2 x Gideon Jura

4 x Vapor Snag
4 x Think Twice
3 x Mana Leak
1 x Dissipate
3 x Oblivion Ring
3 x Day of Judgment
3 x Timely Reinforcements

Probably could use some more tweaks.  I'm not sure Sun Titans are that good here since you aren't sure to have stuff in your graveyard to recur.  Maybe replace them with Frost Titan s, Wurmcoil Engine s or Consecrated Sphinx .  Or possibly cut them for another Gideon Jura and more counters.

Venser, the Sojourner is probably better than Gideon in a deck like this..... Bouncing Snapcasters and AEther Adept is pretty slick.