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I've tried to do a Talrand burn counter deck a couple different times but I've always found that the deck burns through all of it's spells too quickly trying to prevent your opponent from crushing you in the early game since I've found it hard to make a deck that gives you board position early game while keeping mostly burn and counter spells in the deck.

This is how I made it to the burning vengance build that I've got now, you use spells so that you've got what you need in your hand and the rest in the graveyard, the Grim Lavamancers give you Shock on a stick and the delver gives you early game aggro/board position. This is all a delay tactic until you can resolve a Burning Vengance or a Talrand which is when the fun starts

It works well as a straight up burn deck but it doesn't really have room for counterspells without using the 2 cost creature that I really hate (to the point of irrationality) since the deck relies on flashback

At least at my LGS there will be some sort of removal by t4 if not t0 (Gut Shot) and so to do all of that t3 then have the agent get killed would be a major thorn in the side, if you want to keep infect throw in some inkmoths and maybe a blightsteel as a 1 of.I agree that blighted agent + the knife is a really nice combo if it works out.

It's funny, someone was running a mono-blue deck trying to do exactly what you are at Game Day at my LGS and I was trying to convince him to add green for ramp, and now you're doing the opposite, well I can give you some advice from his deck, Dissipation Field is amazing at slowing other decks down and just being annoying. He also used Argentum Armor which can be sweet if it actually works out. I wouldn't recommend Blighted Agent, I've never found using Infect as an alternate win condition to be effective, it leaves your opponent with 6 posion counters and like 4 life and then you die, use latch seeker or artful dodge if you need more unblockable I noticed that in the deck he was using he never got up to enough mana, as such I would suggest either adding ramp or Vapor Snags to slow down your opponent. This seems like an interesting idea and it actually worked out for the guy playing it, he got second overall

EDIT: Just looked at your sideboard and realized half of my suggestions were already in there. Oops

I've got x6 of the mountian you need and x4 of the forest, I need the x2 sulfur falls from your tradelist, send me a trade if you're interested in some or all

Yup, but it makes their Eldrazi similar to an Elixir of Immortality instead so that's at least in my opinion better than just pretty much losing by default

I see what you mean about the card draw tho I'd probably use Soul of the Harvest for this deck since it's going to go off on all of my creatures not just the blade splicers. I also like the idea of hexproof but right now I'm using cloudshifts and have Autumn's Veil's in sideboard for protection. I might try out the Avacyn's Mask tho I just don't know when I'd ever have mana to cast it and actually want to. I pulled the Spirit Mantles for now and I'm going to play tonight without, using Nearheath Pilgrims instead since they work well with cloudshift and the mantle sucks with cloudshift, I'll let you know how it goes, I wish my cavern of souls' were here now tho, this deck is like perfect for having 4 of them, 2 tribes so they shouldn't be a dead draw and i'm using more than one color, oh well, maybe for FNM

I've made a couple expensive changes to the deck but since I pulled a snappy a geist and a couple nice foils I'm ok getting some nice cards for this deck. Here's the current build, I've got the card draw in the sideboard since alot of decks are too aggro for me to get up to 6 mana but I also put in a Garruk, Primal hunter since he could get me tons of cards after swinging with exalted, we'll see how this build does, I'm a little worried but we shall see. Also any sideboard advice, I know the war falcons probably look strange but remember they trade with flipped delvers so that's why I have them.

All of the above-mentioned cards are great ideas, alot of really good mill cards are both blue and black so thats something to consider along with the fact that it usually takes more turns to mill someone than to do 20 damage so it's good to have control notably creature removal, which is why I almost never do a milling deck without black if you go for black Nephalia Drownyard is also pretty sweet on any turn that you draw a land or something. You should also get something to exile cards in graveyards at instant speed, the 3 legendary Eldrazi, (Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, and Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre) even with one of them in a graveyard completely shuts down milling strategies but because of tricky stuff you can exile it before it's graveyard ability goes off and therefore it doesn't get shuffled back in

Is one of those swamps supposed to be a plains or a mountain? I'll send an offer either way

Started a discussion and in the case of those lands listed just shoot me what you're asking and I'll decide if it's reasonable for unhinged and any islands

Right now I like green better because I find that the Blue White needs specific card combos to work whereas the green white just needs to get some stuff out then smash face, either with a doublestriking unblockable champ of lambholt or with an exalted out creature with a rancor or 4. I've found that the weakest card for this deck seems to be the champion of the parish, I thought it would be really good but it really throws off the flow of the deck because it wants to come out T1 but I want Avacyn's Pilgrim out T1 so champion of lambholt can be T2 then get huge. I'm thinking about Nearheath Pilgrims or Spirit Mantles. My idea is that Spirit Mantle is an awesome exalted card since it makes your creatures unblockable but at the same time it just tells my opponent to remove that creature and get a 2 for one which isn't fun at all. Thoughts?

Terra Eternal or any creature board-wipe spell are the biggest issues I see assuming someone isn't using a deck specifically designed to hose yours since it just makes your combo side of the board no better or worse than anyone else's

This combo seems pretty convoluted to me, isn't it easier to use Phyrexian Unlife and Melira, Sylvok Outcast?