I play with a group of friends on a regular basis, but one of my buddies plays a nasty control deck and wins every time. The purpose of this deck is to shut him down, and slow build the creatures to finish him off.

1 Azorius Guildgate 1 Dimir Guildgate 1 Dreadship Reef 1 Esper Panorama 15 Island 10 Plains 10 Swamp 1 Chalice of the Void 1 Broken Ambitions 1 Cosi's Trickster 1 Sol Ring 1 Unsummon 1 Counterspell 1 Cyclonic Rift 1 Essence Scatter 1 Evasive Action 1 Fog Bank 1 Grand Abolisher 1 Runechanter's Pike 1 Trickbind 1 War Priest of Thune 1 Cancel 1 Circular Logic 1 Convolute 1 Crystal Shard 1 Dissipate 1 Ertai, Wizard Adept 1 Exclude 1 Faerie Trickery 1 Forbid 1 Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer 1 Harbor Bandit 1 Lullmage Mentor 1 Mana Web 1 Mortify 1 Obelisk of Esper 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Oblivion Stone 1 Paradox Haze 1 Perplex 1 Phylactery Lich 1 Psychic Strike 1 Render Silent 1 Aetherize 1 Clone 1 Discombobulate 1 Dismiss 1 Foil 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 1 Mindstatic 1 Necrotic Ooze 1 Phyrexian Obliterator 1 Rewind 1 Sleep 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner 1 Voidmage Husher 1 Ethersworn Adjudicator 1 Gilded Lotus 1 Godhead of Awe 1 Lavinia of the Tenth 1 Sen Triplets 1 Vengeful Pharaoh 1 Venser, the Sojourner 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge 1 Necropolis Regent 1 Skeletal Vampire 1 Sorin Markov