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I like your UG list the best, but you can make some small changes to improve on it still.

What to do:
1. Frost burn weird doesn't belong in the deck if you're not doing devotion.  Cut them, gyre sage and the raptors for some sylvan cyratids or voyaging satyr's at the least. 

2. A few counters would help the deck a lot.  A couple essence scatter and syncopates instead of disperse. 

3. Bow of nylea is really good in a deck like this.  I'd put in a couple of those. 

4. Go up a land if you're worried about the land count, guessing you don't have 4 breeding pools?  Temple of Mystery?

5. +2 cyclonic rift.

6. +1 chimera, -1 prophet.

7. +3 divination

Why:
1. You're already clogging the ground with wall of frost, and the ramp and extra mana will help you cast things like primespeaker and hold up counters.  The ramp, and extra mana you can get from plasm capture will help with pulkranos (spelling?)

2. 99.99999% of people are going to try and kill you with a creature.  Escence scatter is easy to cast and is pure value against most decks. Syncopate is most likey just as useful as escence scatter and can catch other things like planes walkers, which you don't have a real good way to deal without side of just beating them down.

3. Have you every played trading post?  Bow of Nylea is like a green better trading post.  It makes all your attacks deadly for your opponent, gains life, places counters... it's juicey juicey goodness for a deck like this.

4. yeah so, lands help a lot... no real explanation needed.

5. So gods are hard to deal with, except they are permanents and you can kind of tempo them, with cyclonic rift.  And over loaded rift against a mono blue devotion board would be devastating for them.

6. the life gain you get from the chimera is pretty good, and necessary, The prophet inst a win condition and it doesn't really advance your life total or your board. It's good, but not that good, and 2 of the creatures that matter already have flash... the big benefit here is flashing in a prime speaker, which is just kinda "cute", but not really back breaking.

7. you're in blue, you need to utilize it.  If not divination then something like inspiration.  You need to be able to draw additional cards and 2 prime speakers won't cut it.

I'm playing RWB.  I made 2nd place the other day, but when we cut to top 8.  I had a tough match against UW-master of waves/control.  I ended up losing, but here's some things I learned.  I let my opponent turn on devotion to thassa twice to chain her up to some rocks, then proceed to wipe the rest of the board. 

While master of waves is pro red his tokens aren't and that's where the beating comes from.  Other than pro-red he's a 4 mana 2/1 which is not a real threat from most decks.  it's not unstoppable by any means, but it's good and you _HAVE_ to have an answer for it when it comes down.  The trick is almost any answer will do outside some narrow red cards.

I think everyone just wants to be updated regularly.  It's a popular feature and it's missed on the website. 

Everyone appreciates the work deckbox does to help foster growth in the community.

Sorry to hear that, but don't get discouraged. 

Mill usually isn't a viable win condition against most decks.

I am not a developer or an admin, however.

To me the advantage provided by the tool was the main reason to visit the site.   I can't imagine what kind of performance issues would have been bad enough to take down one of the most popular features.

Not trying to be a jerk.  I really don't understand how slower performance impacts the way the site works.  I never saw anyone complain that it ran slowly or caused any issues.

JUNK (GWB) is built to beat your style of control.  It's going to be a tough match up.  Omen speakers are good, but they won't save you from smiters.  The first SCG open after rotation the 2nd place UW used yoked ox as a sideboard card against aggro.  Something like that can work for RDW, but not for junk.

One of the best sideboard cards against junk is Glare of Heresy.  It stops voice tokens and it can remove a smiter for 2 CMC. You also, have to have 4 copies of supreme verdict.  You're just dead without it right now. 

You just have to be careful about how you play against junk.  Voice is going to punish you for playing cards like cyclonic rift and celestial flare.

Also, you need to understand that you're just hedging your bets against control.  It's a little like rock paper scissors.  Aggro>Control>mid-range>aggro.....  You can do everything you can, and still have tough games.  It's not unwinable, but I'm just making sure to point out that you know you have to play better than normal going in.

Sphinx's rev loves land... trust us here.

essence scatter yes.  You don't need pithing maindeck with 4 detentions spheres and counters.  Also Ætherling kills planeswalkers dead.

yup

something like omen speaker is good against aggro, digs a little and can be saced to the demon later?  not ideal, but something to think about.  Also, eslspeth generates enough tokens to keep demon locked down.  If you're gonna play seraph for that another elspeth would just be better.

but not anger of the gods,  fiendslayer is a good card.  to me a precinct captain would do the same thing and occasionally create tokens for you.  Not a huge fan of either strat though.  If you play fewer creatures you blank a lot of their removal.

Yeah probably not thassa, if you can't get another jaceaot, then perhaps a memory adept would be sufficient.  It's an extra card a turn, with a possible alternate win condition. *shrug*

Nah, 2 disolve, 2 syncs, 2 escence scatters would be a standard counter spell package here.  Most decks are tapping out or very nearly tapping out every turn these days.  Preventing them from playing spells and making it harder to cast isn't a good idea.

we can view each other collections.  Otherwise what's the point of having a trading website right? 

With your selection being pretty slim, IDK what help I could offer.  Just evaluate your cards and find as much synergy as possible.

Cheer, up you're a nice guy.. there's someone for everyone. J/K

Uhh, chandra and ralzarek, and the blood crypt aren't doing you much good if you want to play control with a mill win condition.  I'm sure you can offer those and get some bites.  Now is a good time to trade chandra she just spiked 15 bucks.  She won't get much better.

Well, which is it?  Casual or FNM? In my mind (and most other peoples) casual is just with friends and kitchen table magic.  FNM is a level of competition.  Not a high one, but depending on your area, it can be pretty competitive.

To the issue of budget, there is only so much you can do if you're not willing to trade and buy more cards.  You can take the advice given here and try to apply it the best you can, but the cards suggested are suggested because they're the best at what they do.  You can substitute but it won't be as good.

Also the major piece of advice still stands.  You don't play "mill" you play "control" with a mill win condition.  That's the biggest take away from your thread right now.