The main tribal should be Monks, Ojutai wants to be replaced by his older Dragonlordy version if he wasn't so expensive. Right now he's just a strong flyer for when I need air support, and I have one, if I get multiple triggers off of Ojutai's effect, cool, otherwise the single trigger does the job well enough to make it worthwhile (in that I already have him so I don't need to hunt down a functional flyer for the deck, keeping in mind the deck is heavier in blue making double red a harder sell for me).My Artifacts/Enchantments do need work as it comes to functional things. I want to add more here and remove more of the reactive spells wherever possible. The goal of my spells are mostly to just cast into as many Shu Yun triggers as possible faster than my opponent can stop me. I probably need to tweak my creature and noncreature base to help that more. I've been avoiding Rogue's Passage due to prohibitive mana costs and not being a prowess trigger, Whirler Rogue could work out of new cards. I'm still taking ideas as to how to get Shu Yun through faster.It doesn't help that I'm budgeting cards, as there are things that would definitely help if they weren't prohibitively priced moneywise. The same issue is holding back fixing my manapool into something a bit tighter knit. (I could so use Fetch+Shock combo on this deck.)So yeah, I have had a lot of the ideas you've suggested, just... money.
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I suppose that's fair. I still think Favored Hoplite would be a good choice if you can carve some room. Loyalist is a better late game drop than T1 drop, and if you want to get your army off the ground fast, having a 1/2 that becomes damageproof and grows off of his heroic is pretty boss.Espeically since you can hit it with your own Lightning Helix in a pinch, it'll grow and become damageproof first, then you gain 3 life.
Hidden Strings. If you can keep swinging through with something you can use a Ciphered Hidden Strings to psuedo-ramp or target Agent of the Fates with another option (and if Agent is the one attacking, he has Psuedo-Vigilance while he makes them sac a creature every turn).
I want to say add Favored Hoplite (His heroic effect is pretty boss, and makes him a pretty powerful game starter on the play), but I'm not sure what to drop for him. I'd also say drop Legion's Initiative as you have better Anthems, and if you're relying on your Phalanx Hero it'll just clear all his hard work. Fabled Hero should be a good choice to mainboard simply for his effective stats without heroic (the heroic is just gravy).