1. I took the idea to run sweeepers from the the Azorious Titan deck that runs them with 21 creatures (just like you do).

2. I want to continue our discussion about counter-spells as I'm rather new to playing them (and Blue in general).

Why do you prefer Condescend to something like Deprive or Familiar's Ruse (which let's us replay a creature for another etb effect) ?

Another option is Delay, what's your take on it ?

Condescend requires you to keep quite a lot of mana open, isn't running something like Rewind better ?
Or even Mana Leak if they have less than 3 mana open ?

Also what do you think about Spell Burst compared to Condescend ?

@Dennis14,

1. Sure, but that deck does not care for the survival of its creatures. They are used as spells - basically just the ETB effects matter and the fact they can be brought back with the 4 Titans and Emeria. Azorious Morphine Trip is focused on tempo beats with small fliers, backed up by board presence and stalling the opponent. Completely different decks.

2. Sure. First up, Condescend:

Out of all these options, Condescend is the best one - countering something for 1U or 2U is generally the norm with it and it gives you a small, but significant bonus. Late game, the X does not matter as much, as both players have a lot of lands, but this card's idea is to get you to the late game - you should have other options once you get there. Also, late game you can cast it as "U: Scry 2", which is something. The downside of Condescend is that it is easier to play around than most soft counters.

The others rate like this:

mana leak > deprive > familiar's ruse > rewind > spell burst delay

Mana Leak is great in the early to mid game, when counters actually matter.

Deprive has a restrictive mana cost and brings inherent tempo loss, but it is the best hard counter.

Familiar's Ruse is VERY restrictive in terms of its conditions. Also creates a tempo loss that can be more detrimental than the one deprive, but also have some sort of positive effect. I am yet to find a deck where this is card is good.

Rewind is hampered by high mana cost - not useful early when you need it. Also, for 4 CMC you can play Cryptic Command which is better.

Spell Burst is the opposite of a mana leak - it can only be played effectively in decks that produce a ton of mana (Tron).

Delay just reads "Pay 1U and reveal this from your hand. Three turns from now, discard this card". It does not even draw you a card!

N.B. I will be resetting the discussion after this comment, I tend to do it after every 15 or so comments.

If you want to ask me anything on the archetype or anything else MTG related, please do so via chat, a lot easier to manage.

looks to me like you could make some pretty good use of Eldrazi Displacer in here.

Cool card, but no space for it and too expensive in terms of ability. Also, I have only four sources of colorless.

Wouldn't Eerie Interlude be good here (over Momentary Blink) ?

I would also suggest mainboarding Reflector Mage and Vendilion Clique as they are very good.

Another decent 1-drop option can be Thraben Inspector or Icatian Javelineers.

I think that splashing Green can really help the deck with cards like:

Noble Hierarch, Eternal Witness, Thragtusk (Loxodon Hierarch/Obstinate Baloth),
Coiling Oracle (Elvish Visionary), Bounding Krasis, Void Grafter, Sagu Mauler and Nest Invader.

I'm working on a Bant list myself here:

Bant Interlude

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@Dennis14 and MattStar, thanks for the comments and votes!

Momentary Blink is going tall (multiple blinks per card), while Eerie Interlude is going wide. If the board state is in a position where interlude would be better, I am probably winning that anyways.

Reflector Mage needs to be paired up with permanent blink like Eldrazi Displacer or walker Venser in order to be effective. I do not have enough sources of colorless to effectively use displacers. I also found that Stonehorn Dignitary does the mage's job better and is applicable in more situations.

One drops like Javelineers or Inspector are hugely underwhelming. a 1/1 and 1/2 are just not efficient enough. The one mana slot is full of 7 cards that are crucial to the deck's game plan.

Clique is decent so far in testing, but not overly impressive. It does allow the deck to deal with non-battlefield threats, but I feel that Dispel out of the board could do that job just as well.

Do you think Spell Queller has its place in this deck?

@nbakh, Spell Queller not very good when blinked and provides no support to the rest of the team with weak stats and no utility. A subpar Venser, Shaper Savant in this deck.

Would it be better in your Budget Acid Trip deck? I thinkReality Acid + Spell Queller would work great together. Other than that you can eat a smaller target with Spell Queller early and if the opponent plays a bigger threat you can blink it? I'm fairly new to this level of magic, but it seems like a versatile card to play. What about Reflector Mage? I bought a preconstructed deck from planar chaos (Endless March), and fell in love with blink, flash and ETB-effects, and I absolutely love this deck (and the budget version). Sorry if I'm too big of a noob.

Spell Queller and Reality acid is a nonbo, unless I am missing something. Quelling my own spells seems wrong? It is a versatile card to play, but not here.

Reflector mage is nice, but generally useless in Modern, where people are rarely playing on curve - they play below the curve. Decks like affinity or Infect or goblins or anything else which plays a lot of creatures, do not care if they are facing Man-o'-War.

You can use Spell Queller as a Leonin Relic-Warder (with flash and flying) or am I misunderstanding something? I see your point about Reflector :)

You can use Spell Queller as a Leonin Relic-Warder (with flash and flying) or am I misunderstanding something? I see your point about Reflector :)

Spell queller exiles spells - it works only for things on the stack, not any other zone.

Hey man.

Do you think the new Kaladesh card Panharmonicon is playable in blink decks. I want to be able to abuse it, but seems a bit slow. Thoughts?

It is a slow card that does nothing by itself. Not worth the 4 mana, outside of some infinite combos with it.

I the your deck! I've been hammering at a similar deck for the past year, and it's begun to settle in a place not to dissimilar to yours. I suppose that's one of the downsides of Modern; you can start out with a hugely idiosyncratic list, and through the process of slowly cutting pet cards for their more efficient neighbors, the result is a sort of soft homoganizing :c).

In any case, it has been instructive to read your posts and the reasoning for your choices, so thanks!

( BlinkDial is my deck btw )

Glad you like it, mumblethief!

After modern bannigs that weakened hyperaggressive decks, this one is better positioned in the meta. For your deck, I would highly recommend adding both vensers (creature and walker). They work great together and enable the deck to have a potent midgame and late game.

Also, think in the sideboard about super popular decks and how to counter them. For example, I have found out that burn is a severe problem for this deck and have leyline and halo (especially versus eidolon) to combat it. Halo works great vs infect as well.

@Boza Why is Akroma, Angel of Fury in this deck? Also, center this deck more around Reality Acid than random goodstuff.

GreenFuzzyNinja, akroma is never cast, only morphed and then blinked in this deck and is superb win condition that dodges almost all removal.

Reality acid is really good and used in the budget version of the deck, but unrestricting the budget allows for faster cards in terms of tempo.