Viridian Claw doesn't seem to fit in here. Only +1 to attack and first strike? Your stuff is gonna be unblockable anyway and Phyrexian Crusader has first strike on its own. I would use Livewire Lash (+2/+0 and creature deals 2 damage to target creater or player whenver it is targeted by a spell). Then if you target your creature equipped with Livewire Lash with any of your other buff spells, you can throw out 2 free infect damage as well. Also to make your opponent think twice about killing your creatures.
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Yeah the invisimancers in the sealed deck made it easy to get their life down fast and make use of the Impaler Shrike draw ability. I kind of like the Gitaxian probe for the cheap draw a card and see what to expect from your opponent but yeah invisimancer could replace it just fine.
Now that I see I'm at 60 cards I'll just leave the invisimancer out... lol.
I'm actually going to modify it a bit and get rid of the mindcrank and replace it with neurok invisimancer. Life gain decks would be a weakness but I rarely see any of those in tournaments. I played a deck similar to this in the sealed deck tournament at prerelease and it did pretty good. Went 2-2, it was 1 life and upkeep away from being 3-1.