I'm going to agree on the Scepter and the Rites. They're slowing you down, and helping your opponent, respectively. If you're trying to accelerate into a large mana base, you need to use search. That search can be in creatures or spells, but you need something that allows you to get more lands on the field from your deck, not just your top card. I feel like this wants to be a combo/aggro deck rather than a control, and I think some of your control elements are going to muck up the works for the actual win condition.
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