Sleight Loss of Hand (Modern MTG Deck)

A friend of mine handed me a few copies of Ominous Seas because it didn't quite live up to his expectations. He wanted to see what I'd do with it. I'm going to abuse this card as much possible with wheel effects and then make them one sided. This is still very much a work in progress. Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Win Condition

Ominous Seas: Summon sea monsters and go to town. Multiple copies even stack =). Worst case scenario, you can always cycle it.

Wheel Effects

Day's Undoing: Doesn't put counters on Ominious Seas, but combos really well with Narset, Parter of Veils and Notion Thief to limit their options and recycles your other wheel effects.
Jace's Archivist: Repeatable wheel effect.
Whispering Madness: Backup one shot wheel effect. Though it is repeatable, it is unlikely here.

Sleight of Hand

Notion Thief - Flash in at the end of your opponents turn, then set up a wheel to draw a new hand (plus theirs) while your opponent is left with one card.
Narset, Parter of Veils - Like Notion Thief but cheaper and trades in the surprise factor to search for more wheel effects.
Bag of Holding - While not strictly a way to set up a one sided hand swap, but it will give you a hand in reserve to use later. Works fairly well with Jace's Archivist and Dark Deal.

Prepare for the Sea's Vengeance

Telling Time/Anticipate - Dig for the answers you'll need.
Opt//Sleight of Hand - Doesn't dig as far as Anticipate, but does give you an additional draw to summon a Kraken for Opt. Sleight of Hand digs further, but is at sorcery speed.
Engulf the Shore - This deck has enough islands to justify using this card for cheap field removal. The fact that it is at instant speed doesn't hurt either. Your Krakens will usually have more than enough defense to avoid engulfing themselves (what a weird sight that would be) With the number of creatures in this deck, chances are good that your opponent will have more to lose =).
Whelming Wave - When you don't have enough islands, but still want to clear the field. Only gets weird if you're playing against similar sea monster tribal and if you are, then rejoice it seems you've found a kindred spirit =).
River's Rebuke - The river didn't like that. Emergency completely one sided field wipe.

Sideboard

Ashiok, Dream Render: Necessary graveyard hate if emptying your opponent's hand works in their favor.
Damping Sphere: To slow down faster/storm/aggro decks.
Fog Bank: Quick creature early game that can block for days. More defense against quick aggro decks
Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage: Pseudo rack and removes the last card in your opponent's hand. Also serves as an additional win condition if your opponent prepared for Ominous Seas.
Archfiend of Ifnir: Pseudo board wipe with the wheel effects. Also a bit of control against tokens.
Rapid Hybridization: Cheap instant spot removal. Giving your opponent a 3/3 isn't great, but can still be better than a huge creature and it can be easily removed later with Engulf the Shore.
Echoing Truth - Even more token control.

Alternative Win Conditions

Sphinx's Tutelage: Pair with Ashiok, Dream Render as an alternative win condition with Day's Undoing. Combos well with Forgotten Creation. Bit slow and an easy target, but this is offset after you reduce your opponent's hand size.
Waste Not: After testing, this has been the best substitute for Ominous Seas. Most of the combos in the main deck can apply to Waste Not and it works even better with Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage in the sideboard.
Dark Deal: Though not nearly as good as Day's Undoing, it can work as an alternative as it will put a lot counters on Ominous Seas and more importantly it can go off on T4 after Narset, Parter of Veils on T3.

And that's "Sleight loss of Hand" for now. The cards in the Maybe Board are alternative win conditions I've tested and/or interchangeable options for cards in the main deck. Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Replayed the Deck, might look into new tools — March 14, 2023

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Dusted off this deck recently for some games and remembered why it made everyone groan. It's particularly satisfying when one of them is the one that handed me the Ominous Seas fort his deck in the first place =) . Also found Tegrid is too much of a lightning rod for hate for multiplayer, so i removed her. I also removed Dark Deal from the main deck because Day's Undoing has been just much more worthwhile in the long run. Might look into new tech from more recent sets to see where I can take this deck.

Testing Tergrid/Lantern — March 2, 2021

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Tried Midnight Clock — Jan. 28, 2021

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Castle and Clock — Jan. 14, 2021

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Completed — Oct. 8, 2020

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Sideboard Testing — Aug. 25, 2020

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Cheaper Alternative — Aug. 24, 2020

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Top Ranked	Achieved #25 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #2 position in Modern 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Budget 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Combo 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 1 Rares 8 - 11 Uncommons 6 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Kraken 8/8 U
Folders	Modern, Inspiration
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