Seems great! I normally don't like any type of control, but this is just so effective, I can't help it.

One thing though. Mind Spring ? Really? Why not Braingeyser , or Stroke of Genius ? The latter especially is great in control. (I see you've got card:Blue Sun's Zenith in there already.)

Mostly because I had a copy of Mind Spring .

I really should get a Braingeyser though.

Ah, I know how it is.

A Braingeyser from Revised will only run you about ~2 bucks, so it's not too horrible. In most situations, Mind Spring will do the same thing, though.

Chuck Testa

Meddling Mage and Nevermore are excellent ways of saying no.

A couple cards to consider are Hinder and Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor .

Geist of Saint Traft maybe? He's a great creature even if he likes to say "swing" rather than "no".

I like the Geist of Saint Traft . I've been trying to put more "killing force" in this deck, and that seems to work well. I feel like I could use a Luminarch Ascension too.

Thanks, and I completely agree with the Luminarch Ascension , that'd be a fun way to dominate the board while encouraging a controlling playstyle. Plus it's way better in EDH.

+1 please rtf:

deck:grand-arbiter-augustin-iv-tunnel-vision

card:Orim's Chant buys you 1 turn counter for Luminarch Ascension

I REALLY wish I had an card:Orim's Chant, Raven.

But unfortunately I do not. I'd slap that on an Isochron Scepter faster than you can say card:Now I Know My ABC's!

lol, I got one sadly i'm using it in my deck:sovereign-edh very hard to obtain. Silence will work in the meantime as long as they dont already have a creature out lol.

Try Wrath of God or Catastrophe for Day of Judgement?!?!?!!, Treachery for Control Magic , Meishin, the Mind Cage is unneccesary, and Hanna, Ship's Navigator seems really out of place.

I like the inclusion of Leonin Arbiter over Aven Mindcensor , as well as the CounterTop and Parfait synergies.

No appearance from Thalia, Guardian of Thraben , Consecrated Sphinx , Solitary Confinement , Mana Vortex or Pendrell Mists . Consider some of them.

Like the deck, +1'd.

Sorry for the double post, but take out the 7cmc Control Magic variant for Treachery instead of Control Magic itself.

I would love to pick up those cards, as well as a Mystic Remora .

Well then, it seems I have no choice but to +1. I comply!

Love the deck, been wanting to make a grand arbiter deck for a while, and this surely helps get an idea of what to use. Thanks!

You're welcome!

I want to see what you make.

hey, finished my decklist. chiggidy check it out. it's a mixture of your style with another list i saw from a youtube guy named "royalal." some aggro, some pillowy goodness.

check it: TAX SEASON

For funzies, you can try incorporating some stax into the build, incorporating things like Mana Vortex for land hate (possibly combined with fetches + Crucible of Worlds ), and Karmic Justice for rebuke of permanent destruction.

With all the mana tax, why not invest in little Winter Orb , it's big bro Static Orb , and its cousin Trinisphere ?

Not enuf wraths. White has some of the lowest hanging branches, blue has some good ones too, pick the best. Cataclysm , Armageddon , Devastation Tide , Terminus , Hallowed Burial , Supreme Verdict , and Akroma's Vengeance are a few which deal with many problems that may occur that taxing won't help solve. (combo player taking infinite turns, et cetera.)

What I would like to try in a game is Cataclysm , keeping Land Equilibrium , Sun Titan , Rishadan Port and possibly Crucible of Worlds . Your opponents? Quite aggravated. XD

This

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You should grab a Mirror Gallery , then stick Followed Footsteps on Grand Arbiter Augustin IV for ultimate taxation!

Holy shit, that's almost too mean.

almost...

Any updates on this deck?

Actually, I was going to rebuild this as an Oloro Stax Tax deck.