Please make this tutorial go away

In case you want to be even more terrible person, maybe include Spellskite ;)

I like it, thank you! But now it's - what do I take out?!? Maybe Glaring Spotlight . Everything in the deck works too well except Carry Away which sat in my hand with no target most of the time. One other is the spotlight that is useless if no one is using hexproof.

Better yet, was already looking for a replacement for Llawan...

All of these make sense. You're welcome.

Ghool +1

What's the purpose of Shadowspear, I'm assuming you don't put it on your commander and it's there for incremental life gain and to get around indestructible cards in your meta?

You have a high avg cmc given all the control spells and not much ramp. You should swap out 3-4 of the higher costed control cards for 4 ramp spots. I can offer suggestions of cuts and inclusions should you wish.

I've always loved this card/commander. Looking forward to your response

Shadowspear was put in there to get around hexproof, Glaring Spotlight is another card for doing that but shadowspear is much better.

Ramp has not been much of an issue but faster is better. As it is, this thing still wins more often than not, but always looking for improvement.

Please feel free to put some suggestion out there as this deck is next on my list for updating and perhaps you'll give me ideas I've not considered. Thank you for the input.

Mind Stone - Ramp when you need it, draw when you don't.

Sky Diamond - Almost as good as arcane signet

Maybe Sceptre of Eternal Glory - Easy to pull off. While it doesn't get you early game ramp, given your high avg cmc, some late game ramp can't hurt.

Gilded Lotus - Similar to above.

Also, why no flexibility in your mana base?

Strip Mine/LD lands seem invaluable. One Homeward path and you're out of luck. Not to mention EDH is full of problematic utility lands

Sceptre of Eternal Glory is nice, use it in two other decks. Throne of Eldraine pretty good too speaking of mana and draw.

Mind Stone I run in pretty much every other deck, great card and most likely getting added.

There's a few high cost cards I'm not getting enough out of such as Archetype of Imagination and Stormtide Leviathan for example that will most likely be removed. The aforementioned Shadowspear has been weak since hexproof has not really been an issue. Don't need both Bident of Thassa and Coastal Piracy so one could be replaced.

Added Capsize and Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage a few days ago. I believe they'll be nice additions.

Come December I hope to be updating this thing and it already plays quite well right now. If you have any ideas for cards that might work well besides ramp please list them. I was looking at cards like Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, but the mana cost seven is higher than I want (been working on reducing the mana cost of my decks). Things that steal or drastically slow down opponents are great.

Quicksilver Fountain has come out more often than it should turning the board into mostly islands so diversifying lands never became a priority. But, this deck is due for some updates so I appreciate suggestions. I have some hours researching coming soon.

I agree with your cuts.

High Market - Sac their creatures if they try to get it out. Synergy with aura thief

Jace ingenious mage is not worth 6 mana IMO. Capsize is cool because you can return the mind control enchantment in response to removal.

Check out my deck that has a similar principle but a different commander. I tried to make it less counterspells more stealing and draw. Not great by any means, but somewhat similar to your deck. Keep in mind it hasn't been updated in 3 years

Treasure Cruise, Thieving Skydiver, Pongify are decent considerations as well.