The BB is very relevant because it tends to delay you by one full turn.
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Birthing Pod/Green Sun's Zenith for answers to things.
Hey, it's 6 more than UW Control!
Not competitively. I think the manabase might be the big stepping stone - I saw someone trying to use Thespian's Stage to fix their mana. Also not 100% certain about the Heliod.
CW had 4 x Boros Reckoner, which I don't own, so I replaced them with the Anax and Cymede + Dynacharge package. It makes the deck worse against RDW but gives more reach in board stall situations. I also added the Spear of Heliods. The rest of the changes were the ones proposed by CW himself in http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11445.
Milling your opponent is just a terrible idea in Modern. Several Tier-1 decks play few to no creatures (RG/U Tron, UWR Control, Storm, Burn), plus several decks play Emrakul the Aeons Torn (RG Tron, Reanimator, Polymorph, Monogreen Eldrazi).
I love the idea. Any chance this could be made Modern legal?
Sadly Honor of the Pure and Phantasmal Image are not Standard legal. I doubt Clone would do enough in this deck. I agree there should be a 4 of Lingering Souls. The funny thing about Drogskol Captain is that it seems awesome to have an anthem on a stick, but if your opponent has spot removal in hand he's not that good for 3 mana. GHM at least gives ETB value even if she gets killed and tops off the curve nicely.
Thanks for the idea. I've modified the curve to be a bit lower, and as a result it's less combo-oriented but more able to aggro in the early game. Healers I would keep in the SB since they don't synergize with the rest of the plan.