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Any help would be appreciated.

I am trying to make a Discard/Draw deck with a few creatures too.
Blue/Black with artifacts.

Ideal is to use Underworld Dreams + Any number of cards to force an opponent or myself to draw.
x4 Howling Mine and x4 Psychosis Crawler with Spellbook

Ideal is to use Megrim/Liliana's Curess + any number of cards to force an opponent to discard.

Using Liliana Vess + Jace Beleren as my planeswalkers.


My main issue is being able to do all this without overdoing it while also protecting my Crawlers. Common/Uncommon/Rare card ideas past 8th edition is welcome.

So far my deck has 75 cards and my friends only play with 60 with a minimum of 5 extra cards that must be because of land. 

this deck is for fun and it isn't based to be superb. I play with mediocre players (well there are 3 in another group that aren't so mediocre) but this deck is more of a lesson to myself. I work really well with monocolored deck creation but I really suck when it comes to multicolored decks because of the mana requirements. I only own 2 Evolving Winds so I can't base a deck on land search.

 

A two colored deck that runs Underworld Dreams simply needs some form of color fixing, preferably as lands. So more Terramorphic Expanse / Evolving Wilds may be a start, as well as the upcoming Dimir Guildgate or variants of that sort of land. Cards like Underground River , Dreadship Reef , even Transguild Promenade etc. Or artifacts like Mistvein Borderpost . Some sort of mana filter wouldn't be that bad either, like Manaforge Cinder . Some copies of Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth would also help greatly.

You might want to use cards that can force an opponent to draw and discard or that have another use. Im thinking along the lines of Wistful Thinking , Consult the Necrosages , Careful Consideration , ... You do want your discard spells to be able to further your game even if the opponent doesn't have cards in hand.

Your Spellbook s should be Reliquary Tower s. you could also use Minamo Scrollkeeper and such. But ask yourself first, if you actually need that kind of effect. If the answer is just a "maybe" or "sometimes", that's an easy cut.

As for the 60 card deck issue, I have been playing for over 10 years now and was rigorously trying to keep my decks at 60. Took me years (literally) to get my decks close to it. I still don't wholeheartedly agree that 60 is always the best number. At least not in Casual, when you don't use sideboards. In my opinion, there is often more benefit in running 61 or even 62 cards in such an environment. As long as you don't exceed that number (62) there shouldn't be a notable difference, if the cards themselves are actually worth playing in the deck. When you need to add more lands because of it, though, that's when you should make cuts.

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That's what I was guessing. Probably will have to completely obliterate my draw components and just make a discard deck with some mill effects or just discard alone. Because Megrim/Liliana's Curess is 8 cards that does the same effect. I also have Hissing Miasma for one of my friend's zoo decks which is in the sideboard. While I have roughly 3.2k cards, my blue is lacking. I guess if I took out Drawing effects, I could rid myself of 10 cards. Out of 75 that's in the deck, it would take me to 65 max. Spellbook was already removed to be replaced with Reliquary Tower before the mention, but thanks I was iffy on using it at first because some of my friends have Trailblazer's Boots. I do have Mistvein Borderpost and I do have Jace's Archivist in my previous idea of a deck with Forced Fruition...but now that I am moving towards a discard-only deck, who knows if I will even use Blue but if I will, It may be for just creatures that are BU.

Tidehollow Strix/Vedalken Ghoul -- My whole secondary plan was to force blocking with Deadly Allure and attach effect to Vedalken Ghoul. Thus killing a creature AND makes the opponent lose 4 life in the process. You guys have been helpful. My other BU was going to be my Perplex and Countersquall for countering.

My other creatures:
Phyrexian Walker (for free creatures I can place out for nothing)
Diregraf Ghoul
Tormented Soul
Fog Bank
Nether Traitor
Thrummingbird (for my planeswalker(s))
Jace's Archivist

Spells:
Clockspinning (for my planeswalker(s))
Deadly Allure (for my Vedalken Ghouls)
Elixir of Immortality (only 2 but 1 is on sideboard because my friends use mill decks as well)
Robe of Mirrors (for my Archivist)
Suffer the Past (for graveyard damage)
Countersquall
Vanguard's Shield (for Fog Bank)
Mask of Avacyn
Isolation Cell
Perplex
Horrifying Revelation
Megrim
Liliana's Curess
Mind Rot
Mental Agony

Sideboard has plenty but one 2 are always reserved for Witchbane Orb (against millers and red damage dealers...friends also love Curse cards. haha

... I know, that's a lot of cards to fit in and I am going to shave off a pound. haha My other plan was to force opponent to have a maximum handsize of 0 so that no matter how many cards he/she draws, they have to discard all of them or play all of them (which Isolation Cell would have worked well against some.) 

My draw deck that I had to remove now had Forced Fruition, Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, Otherworld Atlas, and Wheel and Deal 

Thanks again for the heads up. Private messages are welcome.

what you want with megrim isnt mill (not discard) but spells that force opponent to draw and then discard

the best way to do  that is branch out to blue for cards like wistful thinking or red for burning inquiry . in either version you want dream salvage to keep your hand full, maybe 1 or 2 geth's grimoire

red is faster and has each player efffects for mulitplayer, blue has nice options too though.