Hi, this is my first time posting a deck for help, so let me know if anything is unclear. I got real sick of losing to decks consisting of 30 counterspells and 2 win conditions, so this deck is an attempt to be successful against counter-heavy U, UB, or UW decks, but at the same time be decent overall against many kinds of decks. I doubt I'm going to enter any tournaments with this deck, and I mostly play it in the casual room. As such, I would like to keep the cost of improvements to about $10, maybe $15 if it would make the deck really awesome.
Mostly, I'm just looking for help knowing if any cards should be taken out, because I definitely have a tendency to use bad cards just because I like them. I'll try to put my reasoning behind some of the choices I made in here too.
Thanks!
Format: Singleton
Land (24):
6x
Forest 
9x
Swamp 
Gilt-Leaf Palace 
Golgari Rot Farm 
Llanowar Wastes 
Mosswort Bridge 
Pendelhaven 
Tainted Wood 
Temple of the False God 
Treetop Village 
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 
Creatures I use for their abilities (12):
Nezumi Graverobber 
- Can't counter a creature being resurrected
Epochrasite 
- Help in the early game against quick aggro
Dark Confidant 
- A little risky, I've definitely taken some big life hits, but I still think it's worth it for the card advantage
Hypnotic Specter 
- Ruins control players, they pretty much have to counter this
Eternal Witness 
Dosan the Falling Leaf 
- Was in the sideboard, moved it to maindeck because the counter decks are still destroying me
Hystrodon 
Masked Admirers 
- they'll have to keep countering it
Graveborn Muse 
Indrik Stomphowler 
- Always glad to draw him,
Vedalken Shackles 
is the bane of my existence
Shriekmaw 
- Usually great, less so against control, might be borderline
Duplicant 
Creatures I use as beaters (8):
Shambling Shell 
- Dredge is nice for late game when I just need a creature
Call of the Herd 
- (Basically a creature) 2 for 1, always good
Plague Sliver 
- 4 turn clock
Grave-Shell Scarab 
- Hard to kill for good
Sengir Nosferatu 
- Good defense against flying, hard to kill
Kodama of the North Tree 
- Seems great, but in practice not as stellar as I thought it might be
Twisted Abomination 
Tombstalker 
- Wins me a game every now and then, but may be too slow
Removal (4 + removal in the "creatues" section):
Nevinyrral's Disk 
- Not sure whether I need this or not, occasionally very powerful
Putrefy 
Damnation 
- I side this out against control, but it's so good against others
Profane Command 
- Very versatile
Discard (4):
Duress 
- Phenomenal against counter decks, gets rid of a counter whether it resolves or not
Thoughtseize 
Hymn to Tourach 
Liliana Vess 
- May be too slow, I don't think I've ever actually gotten to use her ultimate
Other (8):
Strands of Night 
- Sometimes worthless, othertimes amazing, a personal favorite that may need to go
Makeshift Mannequin 
- Anything I can get into play at instant speed is a keeper
Phyrexian Arena 
Sylvan Library 
- I like this better than the Top
Garruk Wildspeaker 
Phyrexian Totem 
- Acceleration and a total beater against mono-blue
Weatherseed Totem 
- Better against creatures, worse against control
Loxodon Warhammer 
- On one hand, makes all my creatures threats, on the other, can be worthless and expensive
Sideboard (15):
Gaea's Herald 
Honden of Night's Reach 
- I figured this would hurt control decks that hoard cards, but I don't think it's that great
Leyline of Lifeforce 
Aether Vial 
- Haven't actually tested this one out yet
Eyes of the Wisent 
Quagnoth 
- Amazing against control, they essentially have to Wrath
Final Revels 
- I have it in here against very fast aggro, but I've maybe seen one or two total
Sudden Death 
Krosan Grip 
- In here for
Isochron Scepter 
or
Vedalken Shackles Reap and Sow 
- For powerful lands like
Urza's Factory 
or
Cabal Coffers 
Beast Attack 
- Instant speed creatures seem good, but I don't know if this is worth a spot
Cloudthresher 
- Same reasoning as above
Spectral Force 
Vigor 
- Any time I play a red deck I bring this badboy in
Phyrexian Furnace 
- I should probably put
Scrabbling Claws 
in the board too, graveyard hate is important
Here are some cards I am considering:
Brooding Saurian 
- Shackles ruin me,
Confiscate 
and
Persuasion 
suck too
Troll Ascetic 
- Very good, but I don't have one yet and I draft XXX pretty often so I keep hoping to not have to buy one
Oona's Prowler 
- Quick damage or discard, but not sure if it would be effective enough
Harrow 
/
Kodama's Reach 
/
Golgari Signet 
- I think I either need some fixers or 1 more land
Overgrown Tomb 
- Will this help me out enough to justify the purchase?
Sensei's Divining Top 
- Better than the Library? Should I use both? Neither?
Birds of Paradise 
- I have this already, so I think I should probably be playing it instead of something
I also tried splashing white for
Doran, the Siege Tower 
,
Mortify 
,
Castigate 
, and/or
Teneb, the Harvester 
, but it seemed to stretch my manabase a little thin for not that much benefit.
counter decks, you could go 
