Daishi

Actually, i haven't changed it on here yet, but i found an 'unexpected' use for stymied hopes. The card Unexpected Results plus Scry equals whatever free cards i want! A four mana colossus? Why not! So haveint that potential cheap counter/scry actualy ended up helping me late game if i had an unexpected results. Also want to counter that potential fleecemane lion as quickly as possible...just sayin....

Thanks! If you have any advice, please toss it at me. First time building a serious Blue/Black deck.

So i can use an instant more than once, giving me more ways to hit off heroic. Or in the Charm's case more life gain from lifelink. Just a way to get more out of what i cast.

Lol, nice. Between Corpsejack Menace, Kalonian Hydra, and Vorel of the Hull Clade, you have plenty of ways to double those counters, and that is just in standard! Sylvan Caryatid and manaweft slivers would help with the spread of mana too.

This is very true...hmn...Actually, I will replace one of the Hydra's with him now that i think about it. He works with the hydra's, the colossus, and the ordeal of nylea...and he isn't a bad blocker in and of himself XD

I will consider Vorel for now. That's actually why I put the Kalonian Hydras in there, as both a win condition/makeing the colossus even more colossal!

Honestly, Dismiss into Dreams is a sideboard card at best. Even in a mana ramp deck such as this, it takes a lot of mana to both cast it, and cast things to target the opponents creature/creatures. A great new mana ramp creature in theros is Sylvan Caryatid. It does work. Cyclonic Rift and Plasm Capture are great cards. Ordeal of Nylea and Ordeal of Thassa would help with the counters, the mana ramp, and the draw power very nicely. Simic Manipulater is a wonderful little card that would go great in this deck. Evolving Krasis is a nice unblockable that is easy enough to build up in a deck such as this. I think i would drop one of the primeval bounty's, just to help bring the mana curve down a bit also.

Heck yeah! I saw him laying around and looked at him, then slapped myself for not putting at least one in the deck!

Also, Guttersnipe! And maybe Young pyromancer? I built my own version of a purphoros deck that I had stewing around here. I really want to get off that myr incubator one day with purphoros out, and just wipe the board with 16 to 30 damage to each opponent! http://www.mtgvault.com/daishi/decks/swarms-of-damage/

Hmn...I agree with the reckoner. And yes, i am trying to keep my mana cost 4 or less. As for draw power, I think I will actually put some wild guess in, so that i can at least trigger the guttersnipe and the young pyromancer when I use it to draw more cards to get more triggers XD.

Honestly, while a nice chump blocker, i prefer to only use mutavault in creature specific decks, like slivers or goblins. In a deck like this, I can't help but feel that I would be loseing a land pretty quickly. Now, if it said in the text that you pay one and it 'enters the battlefield' instead of 'becomes a creature' then there would be four of them in here without a doubt!

Wow, i forgot to even look at those...derp.... Let me fix that! As for the deck itself, what do you think?

i like to use it early game, when they almost have to tap out to do anything, or if they tap out later in the game, i know i need to use it then. I like to think that if someone overloads a mizzium morter, i will have a little 2 mana counter ready and waiting.

But imagine being hit by a 30/30 with trample on the 5th or 6th turn...!!!

Actually, i am now going to add Volcanic Geyser just so that the shrines have a purpose XD And because it makes them that much better. Also, Dragon Mantle. And if I get lucky with Molten Birth, which i have used 5 times in a row before, so yeah....

Ya know what? I agree. Switched it is! Heh, board wipe and swiiiiing for the win. I like it!

I guess swinging with a 30/30 and an 8/8 both with trample wouldn't be all that bad....

I have a similar deck built myself, and it only has one Elite arcanist, and i also have a bit more enchantments than yours does. I just compared the two, and looked to see what was different XD. It's posted here on vault,

http://www.mtgvault.com/daishi/decks/blue-white-heroic/

I think the best one i found in this type of deck with Arcanist is Triton Tactics, since you can actualy use it to save the Elite from death by damage 3 or less. And you can trigger heroic even more, all for one mana!

Hmn...actualy, i think i will switch them out with a Mistcutter Hydra and a Kalonian Hydra. Yeah, i like that better. Mist can come in as big as needed, and if i Kalonian on there turn, swing for 8 with trample...yeah, ima do that.