Yes, the only way this deck win's is with Chronozoas, but it is a long and arduous road to that victory my friend. First let me clear up the street wraith problem. Cycling can be done at instant speed and Street Wraith requires a life cost instead of a mana cost. Basically as soon as I draw a wraith I pay 2 life and draw again. It's used entirely for deck thinning. It's as if I'm playing a 56 card deck instead of 60. I've since found a better card, Gitaxian Probe, that can be paid with U or 2 life. It's played at sorcery speed but it also lets me see my opponent's hand. The biggest problem I've had with this deck is that the newly spawned chronozoas don't have haste. If I reach a point where I'm having 3+ upkeeps per turn I have to use reality strobe on my Paradox Haze's so I'll have a batch of chronozoas to attack with next turn. All in all the deck's fun to play with (and that was the point in making it) but gets smashed by any type of burn/removal (all those chronozoas are tokens, cyclonic rift is a death sentence). I still think I could tweak it more but it's steady as it is. The very best thing about the deck is everyone's reaction to their first time fighting it.
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