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I would also suggest posting trade requests on here before buying online, I like to buy locally myself but I'd rather trade for cards so I don't have to spend the money, I don't feel right dropping more than 1$ on a piece of cardboard no matter how much I love the game, not that I don't do it, I just like trading

Hurkyl's Recall is the best I can think of, aside from Glissa, the traitor if you're willing to risk it

To the_wizard: all he needs to do is use Jhoria's ability to suspend a card for 2 colorless so high mana costs are largely irrelevant.

Now I love the bringers myself however, especially in this deck the blue bringer is interesting to compare with Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, while the bringer will probably net you more life, Gitaxias will almost certainly draw more cards and hose your opponent's hands which will allow you to better protect your big creatures/planeswalkers but it's up to you.

I am primarily an EDH player and I still never use diabolic tutor, it just makes me sad with it's inefficiency, Vampiric Tutor would fit alot better plus it's just a card you should have since it's a 1 cost instant-speed tutor.

I would also say that with artifacts you're best off having 2 of each minimum and not having an amulet of vigor which I doubt I'll convince you of, I understand the desire to speed up mana as much as possible but I don't think that the spot is worthwhile, the only time that i use the amulet is in my 5 color sliver deck where I only have 5 basic lands, so I'd say drop the amulet for another journal although if you have good experiences with the amulet then go for it

Because I like completeness of sets I would include the red bringer, I mean with 2-3 extra upkeeps you could easily be taking your opponent's entire board away from them, plus the feel of it if you don't cut the blue one is pretty sweet

Under ideal circumstances you would be able to cast anything in your hand for 2 at the end of your opponent's turn, then use 3 Bugs/ Clockspinnings to take off all but one counter so that you can take off the last one during your upkeep and cast it out, so how do you pull it off? Well there happens to be a legendary creature in {U}{B}{R} that's perfect for this deck Mishra, Artificer Prodigy, cast one bug then pop out the other 3, the best part? Even if your opponent counters one bug the other 3 will pop up anyway since it just needs to be cast (yes I am suggesting using 4 not 3 bugs) Also either use counterspells aside from your wizard or some tutoring of some sort, there are a couple cards which you absolutely need to get and when you get them they need to come out, that's my only issue with this deck, it seems like unless things run perfectly it could easily go way against you really fast because I don't think this deck can stand on its own without casting Bolas or at least your ultimatum, yes the prince or the original bolas can win games but they're pretty easy to take out as a simple creature. If you do decide to use Mishra, I would recommend more artifacts, manalith and darksteel ingot specifically, (I almost recommended the artifact lands but then I realized they're not spells, it would've been sweet though) with this you could easily hard cast bolas before you die along with just about anything else your deck has to offer.

I'm not sure how to deal with it but I'm afraid that your deck seems to be pretty narrow and that if it doesn't go off the right way that it'll sputter out, if you don't have a Jhoria then you will really struggle to cast out anything big and if you don't have any bugs available then they'll just save up counterspells for your cool stuff, perhaps I'm overthinking it but I have to deal with counters like crazy

In regards to why people don't use bolas much, he's just too hard to use in regular formats, like in this deck you need to build around him and he's the main finisher, without the extra mana available in EDH most formats have difficulty casting him, barring infinite combos but if you're doing that there's no point in having a Bolas, lol

Anyway I hope some of this helps, the main thing I suggest is Mishra and a few mana rock artifacts, I'd say drop the mind controls, divinations, and the Kaervek, they're not working for me at least and again try to include some counterspells.

I was saying keep 4 of the bridge and add two Annexes as a precaution, incase they manage to wipe out your bridges but if you'd like to go with a Annex build instead that works as well, however in that case I would recommend not using any of the bridges because it shuts down your own annex. If you want to use this build I would consider figuring out something that can be used as a win condition without the Imp since those could get taken out

It's no biggy, if it had been enchant creature my advice would've been absolutely terrible, as it stands I'm not really sure which is better since if you do go with captive flame and don't draw it early it could be really risky, also with the annex I wouldn't use one or the other, I'd use both since the Annex is good but in all likelihood they're going to have something big enough that attacking does more damage to you than them, I would suggest using it as a 2 of

There are 2 main combos that I'm hoping will allow me to win, having a couple Gideon's Avengers get really pumped up and smash face hopefully not being blocked because I used real Gideon's +2 last turn or If I do get out the Knowledge Pool and Curse of Exhaustion because at that point they're pretty screwed I figure that if they can't cast spells then I should be in pretty good shape because if they can't cast any spells then I should be able to win without much of an issue

I'm hoping that with the life taxes that I put in that I should be able to use my angels as big attackers, I also have 2 Mirran Crusaders in my sideboard which I'm considering putting in as powerful attackers, especially with an Angel of Jubilation out.

I also have considered Dispatch for removal since I use a lot of static artifacts.

In regards to producing fliers I agree, it's a pretty big issue but I don't know if I should use Lingering Souls or Midnight Haunting or Requiem Angel I'm leaning towards the Angel because it punishes them for attacking again but it takes so long to enter the battlefield that I don't know how useful it is.

I hadn't really thought about running out of cards but in this kind of stasis deck it's actually very possible that one of us would run out of cards before the game ends so I think that 65-70 would be a good idea, but now i need to get more good cards, lol

The only card that you suggested that is standard legal is Terminus and it's a good idea, however I don't know if I'll be able to trade for a playset since my tradelist is a little on the skimpy side right now...

Once I get a chance to test it out I'll let everyone know how it works and if I'm going to scrap it or not which is fairly likely if it sucks

I'm personally into using 0 drops if you like the idea of 0 power creatures; Kobolds of Kher Keep, Crimson Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Ornithopter, and phyrexian walker, Shield Sphere has defender so it wouldn't help. Now all the creatures you're using have some sort of fire-breathing effect so that's pretty important and none of the cards I mentioned so so I recommend Captive Flame because it's efficient, plus if you're running 0 drops your hand will be empty in no time at all. I would also consider at least side-boarding Moonveil Dragon as a one of since it's so efficient, under the right circumstances you could have this out T2 and that would be epic. I also prefer wild ricochet to shunt because it's more flexible and it gives you a second copy of the spell all for just one more mana

I prefer to buy boxes, although it is probably less cost efficient, but I also usually pull about 100$ worth not including cards worth less than 1$ so I'm not 100% sure, I also don't have a huge inventory so I like to get commons and such as well

I would be very interested to hear how well this deck plays, it seems like you havn't really focused on the Reanimation aspect that much, the cards you have are Unburial Rites, Eternal Witness, and Sheoldred, Whispering One, but really Sheoldred is one of the best cards in the deck to reanimate because it's so hard to cast. I think that you should try to drop things like Harmonize and Altar's Reap because you want cards in your graveyard, not your hand.

As a side note why do you have vivid creek in there? Vivid Crag or even Vivid Meadow would make more sense since you have {W} flashback cost in unburial rites.

If lands coming into play tapped is causing you alot of problems Amulet of Vigor is sweet

If you like the way that it's playing I would say keep it how it is, I just like to pick a theme (reanimator in this case) and really stick to it, even if it makes the deck less competitive, again I would love to hear how it's working out and maybe offer some advice on small issues

That's very true, so Ideally I would flicker out a Creature with Venser and another one with a stag, that's something I'm going to need to remember because it's the kind of thing I'd forget for a match

I don't mean that at all! You design very unusual decks, it's hardly selling out to try out a deck, I just really like designing decks to be creative so using certain cards that make almost any deck better makes me sad when I use them because I feel like I'm cheating, hence why I don't use titans or swords but even those things are justified in the right deck, if you're running a Rafiq of the Many deck, you'd be silly not to use swords cause the whole idea is to have one super pumped up creature that can set off the sword's abilities several times per turn, my issue is someone putting swords into a deck that it makes no sense to have them in

Basically no, I don't think you sold out at all, lol, I talk too much