Hi all!
After a long break (8 years) from playing Magic, I was considering coming back to the scene. After CoCo rotated out of Standard, I decided to give the format a try... and dear Lord did I like it.
My most played deck during the KLD Standard was Izzet Control (a modified version with small Chandra). This was not my most successful one, but the one I was having more fun playing with.
This deck is meant to be a AER upgrade of the deck. The basic idea is to remove early threats and control tempo down to Awoken Horror beatdown, Chandra's ultimate, or until they are pinged down by Visions and Towers.
The only AER addition is Baral's Expertise, which allows for huge tempo swings - It basically can play anything in the deck but Jayce, atop of being a huge removal. I expect playing a free Chandra or Visions over an Expertise to be extremely rewarding.
I also decided to replace counters with bounces. While arguably not the best replacement per se, bounces synergize much better with Chandra, Visions, and Baral's Expertise (the most annoying thing about Chandra was, in my experience, exiling a much needed Negate/Void Shatter for 2 damages to the face). Moreover, I expect bounces to work overall better if removed by Spell Queller.
I'm planning to use this deck to test the AER meta, as it has answers to all I can think of (including the Crazy Cat Lady). I'm open to suggestions, especially concerning the mana base and sideboard.
Also, please forgive my English... I'm not a native speaker.
Hope you'll like the deck, and help me improving it!
