I'm well aware. Still, if you want to actually play four copies of Dig Through Time you need more ways to put cards into the yard. It's not always a lategame card, and can clutter up a hand. Playing more fetchlands both helps Dig and makes the mana better, so I'd say it's a change that should be made regardless.

Fetches don't always make the mana better GlistenerAgent. This deck frequently finds itself at 1 life at various points in the game before I get my Near-Death Experience out. Fetches are then useless, and those are the times when I need mana, and a fetch won't work, or need mana other than black. And actually consider Mana Confluence like a fetch, because it gets all three colours as well in terms of the mana base. Sure it doesn't go to the yard and costs me more, but the net mana fixing is the same, if not better.

If anything, the extra shocklands you have are even worse than fetchlands at one life. Being at one is not common enough to warrant making your mana generally worse.

I'm really not a fan of Mana Confluence when Delver and Burn are popular and you could be fetching basics. You even have Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth to make fetching basics completely fine.

Remember that the mana distribution pie chart provided by T/O is not a particularly accurate way of finding out how many sources of each color you need. You may not be following that, but the fact that your numbers align perfectly makes me think that you do use that data. 6 Swamps and 2 Urborgs aren't doing you any favors with Near-Death Experience.

Also, consider my mana pie at the moment. What is it's purpose? Upvotes. Purely upvotes. My mana base wouldn't look like this in reality (looking at you swamps), so it is just a method for more upvotes through that perfect mana pie.

And the debate on 4-3 Dig Through Times may be irrelevant. I'm considering the Idyllic Tutor suggestion as it would render the need for 4 Dig Through Times pointless. I'm thinking of sticking 2 of them in there, and removing either 1x Angel's Grace or 1x Thoughtseize, and 1x Dig Through Time to put them in.

In terms of Porphyry Nodes, I can't use it as long as I have my wraths, which are much better cards in my opinion. However Suppression Field is going in the sideboard.

Not sure how much the perfect pie helps, but I suppose you know more than I do about marketing. Would you add more fetchlands if that wasn't a concern?

With the current changes I made GlistenerAgent, I have no need.

I'm liking the added fetchlands. I don't think playing more than one Urborg or Boseiju is ever correct, and I'm not sure how necessary it is to make your stuff uncounterable when you have protection. I'd cut one of each.

Unfortunately, that is where our ideals in mana base butt heads, GlistenerAgent. I hate having one ofs, especially in non-tutorable items that don't have functional reprints. I want to make sure I can get them.

We also have to consider the prevalency of Lili. I can use these extra lands as Lili sac fodder for my own, or my opponent's Lilis. Also, being at 27 land, I can actually swap 1 or 2 of these lands post sideboard if they don't fit the opponent. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is also important for Sadistic Sacrament, and Boseiju, Who Shelters All is more important in the current meta with the rise of more Delver and Scapeshift decks.

Boseiju is actually pretty bad against Delver. ETB tapped and paying 2 life is pretty bad when you're being beaten down fast. I can see the reasoning, but I'd only play multiple Urborgs if you have very serious black mana concerns, which you won't until a 2-of postboard that you won't be casting on turn 3 most of the time. Also, you have Dig to find Boseiju when needed.

instead of boseiju, i think you have a better alternative against control decks. Cards like Swan Song, Negate, Dispel are very decent in counterwars against control builds, but one you might like a lot is Gigadrowse. This one can be used preemptively so you can tap their lands at the end of their turn in order to safely resolve a Near-Death Experience in your turn and it can also be used as a pseudo-fog against creature strategies. The trick with gigadrowse is that they have to counter each copy you make with it in order to be fully countered, making it nearly uncounterable

Death's Shadow and Pain's Reward could be groovy in this deck.

Also +1, I love alternate win cons!

Regarding Pain's Reward:

Note that you may bid more life than you actually have!

I really like what you have done with the idea here. My only suggestion would be Bojuka Bog as a 1-of in the MB over a swamp (yes I realize it enters tapped, which sucks, hence the singleton) with an additional copy in the sideboard over Tormod's Crypt. That would give you the two answers you need for graveyard hate as it does practically the same thing. The singleton MB gives you a chance to hit it with Dig Through Time if you need it game 1, and the 1 additional copy SB would give you the two you eere going to run originally. So if you add in Bojuka Bog, you could drop both Tormod's Crypt and free up an additional slot in your sideboard. I personally would fill it with the fourth Thoughtseize or a third Negate. As I'm relatively new to modern, I may be missing something important as to why this may be a bad idea, and I hope my explination at least prevents this from irritating you as a "half-assed" suggestion. Haha. Best of luck!! +1 from me. :p

Unfortunately sergiodelrio, I can't use Death's Shadow as this deck is creatureless. I don't want to be spending my counterspells on protecting my creature. I want to drag out the game, preventing any threats that come out, till I win by a Near-Death Experience. As for Pain's Reward, I can't pay more life than I already have as that doesn't fit the criteria for Near-Death Experience. It is also more expensive than Plunge into Darkness AND can be thwarted by my opponent bidding more life. Since I have no creatures to deal damage, they'll be guaranteed to have more life than me. It also has a lesser dig power, so if I absolutely need to have an answer to something, I can Plunge into Darkness for 10 say, and be almost guaranteed to get an answer. Oh, and Pain's Reward is also a sorcery, meaning I can't EOT it and win the game on my upkeep like I can with Plunge into Darkness.

Bojuka Bog is a potential card to use in the mainboard, I'll probably put it in there. It won't, however, replace Tormod's Crypt because of one simple thing: I can't play a Bojuka Bog in response to a Snapcaster Mage. Also applies to other similar cards, specifically in Jund. Tormod's Crypt not only makes the opponent hesitate (if they aren't experienced with Standstill that is), but can be used on their turn in response to anything that they may do. Can't be in response to delve, but then again neither can the bog. Another thing to mention is that Bojuka Bog's ETBT is very relevant, particularly if it is on one of the first 6 land plays. I'll put just one in though, because it is good against many cards.

Forgot to tag Scytec with my response.

I'll follow your advice on Boseiju, Who Shelters All, GlistenerAgent and patrice.

Fair enough, as I said, relatively new. :) Seems like you have this well reasoned though, congrats again on a great deck.

Also, not that of all the legal targets for Boseju, Cryptic Command, Dismember, Plunge into Darkness, Remand, Damnation, Idyllic Tutor and Wrath can use the colorless mana- disregarding Dig Through Time as you can comfortably cast that for 2 blue. 15 of the 28 Instants/sorceries are 1 mana or 0 mana or Dig Through Time. Also, as suggested before I like Gigadrowse, especiallly against control decks where they just passed their turn and left their lands open.

I don't like Gigadrowse however Prima. It seems too limited in what it can do when compared to Negate. I would prefer to use Negate as I could then Negate a Scapeshift or a Splinter Twin or a Liliana of the Veil (which I found can utterly destroy me).

I want to note that in your description, the Birthing Pod effect doesn't say cast. It says put. This means that Grafdigger's Cage will not stop the pod effect. I don't know what kind of card will stop the pod, other than artifact removal, but I thought I'd point that out in case you find a lot of pod in your local meta.

Nvm. I was just reading the casting part. For some reason I failed to see the first bit of text. LOL. Sorry for the spam comments

Oh it's fine, we all make those mistakes every now and then~

What about Worship?

No creatures NoThanksImJewish, and even if I were to put in creatures, they can just choose not to attack until they remove my creatures. It isn't that good of a game plan in modern when enchantment removal and creature removal are things. And besides, Angel's Grace does the same thing, but better.

Quick nitpick. Only angels? Or angels only? Haha, otherwise great deck! +1