You may want to consider it. Tuck is really pretty valuable and it can also be used on your own creatures to save Seedborn Muse from Damnation . (As you have very little recursion aside from Eternal Witness and card:Yawgmoth's Will.)

Casualties come with war, my friend.

I don't think Void Stalker is good enough to really warrant inclusion. I'd sooner add Spell Crumple for its increased versatility and lower vulnerability.

Maybe Batterskull or Go for the Throat for kill and a good artifact creature.

or Vraska the Unseen any of the lilianas or even Recycle or to protect your creatures Asceticism

Technically, Batterskull makes a black creature, not an artifact one.

Batterskull is alright in Standard and some casual EDH decks, but this list is meant to be all combo-control. I don't usually even acknowledge that the combat phase exists. Since it doesn't have any practical applications outside of combat, I can't include it.

Go for the Throat and similar kill spells, while good, are limited by their targeting restrictions. If they were like Terminate or Dreadbore (at instant speed), I would consider them. As it stands, I'm willing to pay a little more and get the Beast Within to solve my problems.

Vraska the Unseen isn't really that flexible in this deck. Creatures don't play a big role outside of combos. Vraska's +1 ability has little utility to me. Her -3 is likely the only ability I'd get to use if I resolved her. That basically makes her an expensive Maelstrom Pulse .

I used to run Liliana Vess , but I decided that she was a tad too slow for my purposes. Her other incarnations don't really do much for me; Liliana of the Veil isn't really relevant in combo EDH and Liliana of the Dark Realms is a slow ramp engine. I don't think the latter would survive long enough to get the ult off.

Recycle would be more useful if I weren't going for a control approach. I like to have a full hand at all times, and I want to be holding counterspells and a mix of other cards rather than waiting to draw them or having them to the exclusion of said other cards.

Asceticism is good, but unnecessary. I don't typically play my combo creatures until the turn I win, and they don't need such expensive protection when I have countermagic and lockouts like Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir and Mana Web . I can afford to lose the few utility creatures I play during my buildup turns if the losses are necessary to continue on.

Why Maelstrom Pulse in a singleton format? Just wondering haha.

Probably because it's a Vindicate within BUG and occasionally it kills a bunch of tokens if it has to.

Try finding better removal for only 1BG.

Putrefy is 1BG but it is not as good lol. (Except v.s. regenerators)

Plus it kills everyone's Lightning Greaves ! :)

Maelstrom Pulse is very good card. It vindicates any nonland permanent for 3 and can ruin token decks. On top of that, it's effective in situations where multiple opponents are relying on the same card. I've flashcasted Maelstrom Pulse against a pair of Consecrated Sphinx es before the game got out of hand.

Sided out Deserted Temple for Cavern of Souls (Wizards). Thoughts?

I saw the discussion with Black Diamond on MTGS, I think Cavern would be great.

Gifts Ungiven over Intuition ? One more mana: could have the exact same function, or possibly could net you one more card.

ahem Death Diamond

Gifts Ungiven is banned in edh though..

@fireteam: If, as deathbygiraffe mentioned, Gifts Ungiven wasn't banned in EDH, it would certainly be in this deck. I think I would replace Fact or Fiction for it, though. You almost never find all four cards, though. You find two and then you get to keep both no matter what. That's actually the reason it's banned - it's an instant tutor x2 in blue for 4.

lol Should have known. I thought: "Hey, it's legal in modern. It's probably legal everywhere.."

"You find two and then you get to keep both no matter what."

By keep, you mean put in the GY?

in my opinion, this deck can't really use the cavern. you have so many different types of creatures, that it just isn't worth it and if they do counter something like Snapcaster Mage , it is just their loss, because then you can combo off without having to worry about their counterspells.

@fireteam: I may have been thinking of a different card. Strange. I can still find Eternal Witness , card:Volrath's Stronghold, and any two other cards and my opponent loses to that choice.

@m12fox: Four of the creatures and my general are all wizards, so I don't think Cavern of Souls is a bad choice. It lets me evade counterspells and land my general or Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir (my opponents lose to Teferi resolving at EoT). I don't really think it's any worse than Deserted Temple in this deck. What would you recommend?

fudgecrackers, your land base is so good. i would suggest Maze of Ith but you don't want it for your deck, so i would suggest you consider Gemstone Caverns or Gemstone Mine but otherwise i don't know.

I run a deck (only casual) very similar in concept that uses Memnarch as commander for the main control element. I realize this is far weaker because if he is countered etc the deck, too, becomes much weaker. But with all the mana you generate, you could make good use of him.

The problem with Memnarch is its slowness. At 7 mana to cast, it puts me in a difficult position; if I'm investing that much mana in a single spell, I need that spell to win me the game. I can't afford to tap out or even dedicate most of my resources to a card that can't instantly win or guarantee me the win. The activation costs of his abilities are also expensive. Often, high-level games rarely see permanents that are worth stealing for that much mana until the final turn or two. At that point, if I haven't dedicated all of my spare resources to assembling my own victory, I will lose the game. In a casual environment, I would consider it. As a strategy at the level of competitive play this deck finds itself in, it leaves much to be desired.

Cyclonic Rift ? Or does not being able to remove lands make it not worth it?

Sorry didn't see it in your deck!

have you though of Guard Gomazoa /Fog Bank , it gives a good defense it doesn't die easily, and if not them, Gomazoa ?

Cyclonic Rift is a good card in general, and I find that it's very strong even though it doesn't hit lands. Being able to sweep mana rocks and everything else at EOT is extremely powerful when you're down to the wire and need an extra edge. Its function as a 2-drop targeted bounce spell also makes it flexible.