Archmage ascension is garbage as far as im concerned. I tried making way too many decks using it and none works. As for draw cards. Mysteries of the deep into the roil spreading seas (even if only 2 mainboard) elvish visionary and sphinx of lost truths, which can both be played multiple times with nultread. Then Jace's brainstorm ability.
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Sphinx of Jwar isle is the big wincon, aside from that Jace is a win condition all on his own. Gather Specimens is amazing against alot of cards. Stealing BSA, the tokens after a martial coup. Bloodbraid+whatever it cascades into. ect ectect
i do know that the deck is almost entirely control, but with all the creature control there, i really dont see the lack of creatures being a problem. with 7 removal spells that hit multiple creatures, burn spells, and the amount of draw this has the potential for. I dont think it will be a problem. I dont think any game this deck plays will be a quick game, but that overall i think it will do rather well. I'm actually testing it later tonight with a buddy of mine, and with our card pool we can create just about any deck being played in tournaments. So we shall see how it does.
nvm i see, the only card that benefits from it is scapeshift
also, why are you using amulet of vigor with no lands that come into play tapped?
I just made one of these tonight myself. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=43494 compare notes? O_o
Sideboard bloodghast for control decks. He's the only vampire that you can always rely on for this combo.
id recomend a few primal bellow, the card is absolutely broken in a mono green deck (+/+ for each forrest u control)
Guts has a good point, i would take out celestial purge flash into the roil, put in mindbreaks instead of flashfreeze (just to avoid cascading into them) if you really want to bump up your cascade throw in the enchantment for 4 mana /w cascade, then use sceptor of dominace /w day of judgement. world queller can be used, but i wouldnt recomend it. /w luminarch on the board it doesnt matter if you day of judgement your angels, you make more every turn regardless.
a friend of mine plays an on nix deck that uses red for control. it looks something like this. 4xharrow 4xkalani heart expedition 4xelvish visionary 4xoracle of mul daya 4x lightning bolt 4xlavalanch 4x ob nix 3x fireball 4xred expedition for the elemental its a long ways off from your deck, but it works very well, even against boros decks being able to turn 4 lavalanch for 4 can be very potent. especially with lightning bolts to deal with creatutes on turns 1 and 2
IMO try to work in 4 ardeant plea. with it being a 3 mana cascade (and exalted bonus can be nice) it could be very usefull, not to mention with mesa on the board, that could be 3 mana 2 enchantments (2 draw)
definitly swap bloodghasts and goblin guides when available. also swap savage lands for dragonskull summits when avail. maybe even 2-3 of the zendikar uncommon red blacks if you are having mana problems. or even adding another land or 2. Should your budget increase id even say toss in some tapsack lands, and running grim discovery. You'll risk bringing your life down pretty low early game, but not drawing land lategame in a deck with as low of a mana curve as this is important. PS: bloodchief ascension+burning inquiry= win games
also, bloodchief ascensions, are like megrims... sure they take time to build up, but once the 3 counters are on them, they are significantly better. should you decide to run blightnings in this deck as well, please consider them.
4 glory of warfare seems a little much especially with 4 honor of the pure as well. on a good draw this deck could be brutal, but the other games look like they could wind up with playing some enchantments here, some control there, but ultimately nothing to win the game, id take out either 1-2 glory, or 1 glory and 1 honor, probably drop harms way out entirely, and throw in some more creatures, preferably 1-2 captian of the watch, and... maybe kor aeronaught for some flying, and a 4th elite vanguard.
biggest problem with clone, is that i could poly into one rather than progen, which is why i prefer the rites of replication.
usually i would run the hideous ends because under normal circumstances it works with 4/5 colors. However with the deck types in t2 right now i couldnt see myself mainboarding it in a tourny. i did consider it for my sideboard though, maybe i can replace the durress', but i would prefer not to.
I suggest the Heart Expedition from Zen to replace your greenweavers. Mostly because with lotus cobra and harrows, you can very, very quickly establish enough mana to pull baneslayer on fourth turn. Granted it does serve as a great target for L bolts if you have both cobra and greenweaver in hand, but overall a better play in my own opinian.