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All of the points you make are valid and I agree on all points, thinking about it alot of people I know run mana producing artifacts or mana dorks so mana leak is probably better, I just like to suggest alot of things incase you havn't seen them before, the Liege is pretty mean and for this deck probably not worth it's cost, Faces is better IMO, good luck with this deck I like it alot, I've never seen Merfolk used to mill before, i've only seen Zombies and Faeries so it's pretty cool to see, I hope it works out

Well firstly just on principal I have to suggest removing the Titans and swords, only because I don't like the idea of cards that make pretty much any deck better that being said I actually have some ideas:

First martyr's bond, coupled with grave pact and the butcher ... it gets disgusting really fast three for one, for each opponent

Then cathars' crusade > Juniper Order Ranger especially with Ghave out, think pay 1 to take off a counter, then the crusade puts one back on, its infinite with Ashnod's Altar

Next, the same as everyone else doubling season, blah blah blah, it's amazing but don't stress too much about it, it's really good, but most of the time parallel lives is pretty much just as good especially in your deck because aside from Ghave, the Ranger, spike weaver, and of course the walkers, there's nothing that uses counters and it can screw you over against infect/wither, I run Melira because of that reason.

Another Card I would really push because of experience is Requiem Angel, you get tokens when your non spirit tokens die, therefore you're getting tokens for everything the only exception in your deck is the Geist-Honored Monk, Midnight Haunting, and lingering souls so it's pretty sweet when you sac a Saproling for two mana, your opponents each sac 3 creatures and you get a FLYING token to replace it

Why bother putting them back in the deck? Library of Leng, Venser's Journal, Spellbook, Reliquary Tower, Anvil of Bogardan, Praetor's Counsel, just keep em in your hand, and most of them are affordable, I would recommend the Library because it protects against hostile discard as well

Also the idea of a bear deck is awesome

Oops forgot about flying: Spidersilk Armor, Treetop Defense, or surprise them with Corrosive Gale, I'm not sure how effective your Katabatic Winds would be although it is pretty cool, for lockdown you would need 2 out at the same time, so I would recommend Spidersilk

I don't really see the win condition, do you just make a lot of geist's tokens and overrun with venser's unblockability?

Back to the Germans I don't quite understand the Deranged Assistants you aren't running any reanimation or anything to work with your graveyard so it doesn't seem like a good fit, I'm assuming you're going for mana acceleration so I would recommend Bog Initiate/Sea Scryer for 2 drops or Vesper Ghoul/Bog Witch for 3 drops, if you want to stick to what you've got the most closely, however I have found that with mill it often works to include self-mill so you can pull stuff out of your graveyard

I like your Captain America deck, however I think you need something for mana fixing, I have never been successful running 3 non-green colors with only basic lands and no color-fixing artifacts, but maybe that's just me, i'm not sure. And as far as fling, you're rarely going to be flinging anything that'll do more than 1-2 damage so you're probably better off with something like bolt or incinerate, although fling is more fun

For nightmare 2 I would go all out for the permanent exile Sundial trick, skip unsummons, you have Aether Adepts to do that, go for glimmerpoint stags if you want to do it alot because they're easy repeatable flicker on your opponent's permanents. Other than that I really like the design, it's very similar to the Flicker deck i've been working on,
http://deckbox.org/sets/182259 if you're interested, I'm also curious about how well the Geist of Saint Traft has been working, can you regularly get the token and exile an opponent's card?

Altered Knight, I would push the opposite that TyWooOneTime suggested, push for more red, Skyknight Legionnaire works well and gives you flying defense, any of the soulbond knights from AVR are good to consider, especially if you're trying to keep red in the mix, if you decide to drop it Pentarch Paladin is at least worth considering for the sideboard as it can tear mono colored decks apart, Sworn Defender is a card I like because it can promise that you're going to have a huge blocker against big trampley things.

Spirit Looks really good to me accept shriekgeist, I don't see a milling sub-theme at all so I would say drop them and pick up 2 more Niblis of the Urn

I won't even Comment on the Delver, I can't afford snapcasters so I couldn't help out anyway

Your mono-green has nothing huge, no land tutoring and no strength boosting enchantments, I feel like you're trying to play mind games with some of the cards, and that's not usually how green works well in my experience, it wants to get really big really fast and stomp face, I would keep the birds, the slime and maybe the briarpack, but I wouldn't use any of the other creatures, I personally like to use Greater Basilisk, it's a big creature that can block almost anything and live, also you seem to be very afraid of flying, so I would run some flying removal rather than so much flying and reach I like Wing Puncture and Ulvenwald Tracker, especially if you're running deathtouch, also Kessig Recluse is a nice flying blocker.

For your MP Nightmare I feel like only having one win condition is a little bit too limited, Serra Ascendants are one way to have another win condition with the same deck goals, but as it is if you're facing any artifact removal this deck won't really have anywhere to go, my advice? Splash in some big angels, they don't need to be amazing ones, Serra Angel is a good choice, otherwise Guardian Seraph, Requiem Angel (works well with the soul sisters), or Victory's Herald

The only reason that I'm keeping it standard is because the people I know play standard Roil is really cool though, I have one myself, Also as far as the closet I use it because of the glimmerpoint stags, this way I can flicker anything that I have OR anything that my opponent has, that allows me even more shenanigans, i've also considered splashing green to pick up either parallel lives/maul splicer (more tokens) or red for warstorm surge because that could get pretty mean

As far as permanent exile the Phyrexian Ingesters and Exclusion Rituals both permanently exile something each time you flicker them without losing your card, so that's why I'm not a big fan of the Sundial, I would only use it with glimmerpoint stag, flicker the stag to flicker their anything then sundial to exile it but to be honest it's too complicated and I just don't want to have to explain it every time I use it since I don't have a consistent playgroup

Back to the closet however I am thinking about dropping them into sideboard to add in my extra Deadeye Navigators because they have been a lot more consistent, the ability to flicker things during my opponent's turn has been amazing, for 1U I can counter any spell that targets a permanent of mine so I think you're right about that.

I didn't have good results with the Nephalia Smuggler though, it was too expensive and I don't have an untap engine that makes it worth the extra cost

Right now i'm trying to decide if I need more card advantage, the cards I'm thinking about are Tower Geist and Gryff Vanguard

I am also testing alot of different token generators to see which I like the best, I might end up keeping in a Myr Battlesphere, 4 little myr per flicker and it can swing for TONS of damage after 1-2 flickers although flying tokens do sound sweet, especially on a vigilant body, the main reason I have not tested out the monk is because I don't have any yet (working on it) and my only cathar's crusade is in my Ghave EDH deck and it's too amazing in there to pull it out, once I get another one I'll test it out though

Getting the land that I need has been an issue for me and so I tried (unsuccessfully) to splash green  for the sole purpose of adding in Borderland Rangers but it got too unfocused, everything would be alot easier out of standard

But anyway in doing all of this the one thing I have decided is that Glimmerpoint Stag is now my favorite card for flicker because it's a perfect proxy, you can flicker anything with it and it's super easy to target with any of the flicker engines both of us use so if you've got any I would test it out, it's ridiculous, also I don't see an easy way for you to include it but training grounds could really improve the Smugglers, the Navigator is just fine without but I found the 4 mana very restrictive, which is why I turned to the closet for free flicker, I wish training grounds was standard

I'm not sure how to change it but you could just send them a message with the correct address

I included the birds because of the fact that the deck often has trouble gaining speed right away, it's not the best and I am looking for something to replace it however, tatterkite is only in there because it's a fun infinite combo with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and any of my sac engines, they're also both in there because I don't know what else to run instead. As far as the sigil captain, i think you're absolutely right but I'm not sure what else to use, I had a phytohydra in there for a while but I never even played it, if anyone has any ideas about what to replace any of these with they would be greatly appreciated (I am willing to trade to get what I need) Also I'm trying to decide if I want to run lands like isolated chapel over orzhov basilica and razorverge thicket over selesnya sanctuary, any experience on which is better?

That's very true, again I only use it as insurance, i.e. you're nearly tapped out or don't have cards in hand that you need, but for the most part unnecessary in a good flicker deck

I also forgot to mention Conjurer's Closet, it's not nearly as cool as other cards because it's limited to creatures, but it can be useful especially since it's free every turn

This deck looks pretty sweet, I don't quite understand the commander though, I feel like The Mimeoplasm could work better than Vorosh, the Hunter, it just seems to fit the theme of the deck better but I could easily be missing something, also I'm not sure if there are more unlisted cards because it's currently only at 95