Hmm, granted, it's not a discard deck, but maybe it should be?

In the sense that, discard right now seems like the main control mechanic (paired with the extraction), so, a few of the non-discard stuff might be spreading the deck too thin (as opposed to playing to strengths.)

But it's your deck, just saying that focusing on discard might be what it's missing (and noting, as I said, that discard and Duskmantle Seer are shooting each other in the foot.)

What are your thoughts on Painful Quandary ?

I had also almost forgotten about Mind Shatter .

Both seems quite good if you can play them early enough to do a lot of damage; but being fairly expensive, that seems difficult.

However, if you were to pair Painful Quandary with Liliana's Caress , well... things aren't looking pretty for the opponent.

Hey Demarge wanna test my deck?

Well the deck seems to be land light now, literally every game the deck seemed to be wanting to always wanting more land. The deck also seems to be playing more like a typical modern Jund list so you may want to run a similar land count.

Anything you'd recommend cutting to make room?

I like the idea of this deck, but I feel that it's missing a bit of consistency due to the large amount of singletons you run. I'd remove the cards you don't think perform as well as others and try to make up a few playsets. If you do, you have a far greater chance of drawing the cards you need.

I truly want to add 2 more copies of Liliana of the Veil . If it came down to it I'd cut an Isochron Scepter and either a Scepter of Fugue or a removal spell. She provides me with reusable discard in the same way Fugue does and reusable removal like putting a removal spell on an Isochron Scepter . I feel that discarding my own stuff doesn't help this deck and maybe I need more filtration and recursion in the form of Faithless Looting s and a 4th snapcaster...

The reason it looks the way it does is I want to have a diverse number of answers that are interchangeable depending on who I'm playing. I'm just concerned post board that my win condition will be burn :(

The problem with having something to combat every deck is that when against that deck, you probably won't draw the answer if you're only running 1 or 2. I'd run a consistent mainboard, then put the more situational stuff into your sideboard. I'm not sure what your meta is like, but try to sideboard against the decks you struggle against most. Your mainboard should only contain cards that are useful against any deck.

Yeah, stuff that's going to push my strategy which is essentially "Kill and Discard" hopefully pumping up Bloodchief Ascension along the way.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import that haunt the obsessive mind."

That pretty much sums up what I want to do. Pick off valuable stuff with spot discard like Thoughtseize and Distress and perform a little grixis dentistry with Surgical Extraction destroying the "timeworn dreams" (aka 3 and 4 ofs) of other peoples decks. I wish there was a nice, aggressively costed Syphon Mind style card in modern though so I didn't have to run cards like Think Twice to generate card "advantage."

Brainbite while one of my favorite cards from Shards block just isn't strong enough for Modern unfortunately.

i like the pulling teeth analogy

Deathrite Shaman is now banned in Modern

YEAH! Deathrite Shaman got banned!Jund get wrecked!

You guys are so full of insight. I'm aware I just haven't changed it yet.