Puschkin

Sadly, Jessie has stopped posting many months ago.

Mill doesn't affect board position at all. In fact it doesn't accomplish anything besides giving your opponent more options - it's not only delve. Flashback, threshold, unearth, the list of abilities is endless. You also fill the grave with creatures which means targets for reanimation. Then there are cards that work from the grave like Wonder.

Unless you mill the last card, milling the opponent only HELPS him! So, if you mill, then either add enough mill to finish him off OR add other cards that take advantage of it (like Haunting Echoes).

I'll ignore Gothy and try to stay within the theme :)

* Counterspell is what makes this Legacy instead of Modern. Replace with Mana Leak.

* Mind Sculpt is there because ... ? You need more creatures anyway, so replace them with
- more Crusaders
- Ichor Rats
- Plague Stinger
- Ichorclaw Myr

* Assault Strobe is not a bad card but not worth adding a third colour which your mana base cannot afford anyway. I'd say add more creatures instead, although:

* Blighted Agent needs pump - in blue I would play Unstable Mutation. So maybe replace two of the Strobes with Mutations and 2 with creatures.

* Inexorable Tide => Contagion Clasp

I play casual multiplayer, read, we don't use sideboards at all. And flyers are omnipresent.
What I listed in the sideboard are cards I consider adding or cards I yet have to trade for.

As I already said, please decide on the theme/direction/flavour you want to go with. Until then all I can do is making suggestions of direct replacements that are improvements regardless what you try to do with it. I'll keep this Modern legal.

* Vampire Nighthawk is strictly better than Deathglaze Cockatrice (by many factors)

* Mirri the Cursed doesn't have intimidate but I think it's mix of abilities is vastly superior to accursed Spirit's.

* Liliana's Specter should replace Blood-Toll Harpy.

* Rakdos Drake is horribly underpowered. We already have 4 Vampire NIghthawks ... if you can afford her, Drana would fit in nicely here.

* Skithiryx is many times better than Scourge Savant, however, he worth about 10 dollars. If you are not going to emphasize on infect, you might as well replace it with Kulrath Knight. Wither is better than infect in a deck that aims for a regular kill and the Knight has flying and a nifty extra ability. In either case, Scourge Savant has to go.

* I hate to say it but Sengir Vampire's days are over. Replacement choices:
- Bloodgift Demon
- Archfiend of Depravity
- Desecration Demon
- Skithiryx
Except Skithiryx, all of them are budget friendly

* Victimize is not Modern legal and the only card that prevents this from being Modern.

* Stupor is strictly better than Mind Rot.

* Chain of Erebos is useless in a deck that only has creatures that want to attack. It wants to be played on something like a creature with defender or vigiliance.

* Contaminated Ground isn't worth the trouble unless you run Swampwalkers or more mana denial/land destruction.

But isn't that a good way to lose?
Many years ago when I was still playing in the german premiere league my teammate was paired against Kai Budde (who was world champion at that time). He lost in constructed but beat him in limited. He said this was his "best loss" losing to the reigning WC isn't shameful, losing to random scrubs is.

I once beat the guy that invented the original TnT deck (Vintage), but got my ass handed to me the other times we've met, yet, I still have fond memories. First, it's always great to play against celebrities, secondly you learn a lot and in this case he was also a genuinely nice guy. Damn, I forgot his name, though!

While there were many powerful cards, the average powerlevel has risen constantly. Power Nine, Mana Drain, Balance and all that stuff is what you know because they are famous, however, those were more or less mistakes because they didn't know better and there weren't actually many of them. For each powercard there is at least a dozen cards so weak you would laugh at them. Merchant Ship, Purelace, Mammoth Harness, Island Fish Jasconius, Pit Scorpion, Quarum Trench Gnomes, Rakalite, Jedit Ojanen, Mold Demon, Prophecy, Farmstead, Erosion, Hidden Path ... those are the cards you will never see or hear of but cards like these made the mayority of our card pool back then! Please note that most of the cards I just listed were rare (imagine opening this garbage in a pack!).
Or, let me put it this way: Ernham Djinn was so strong that it dominated Type II ("Standard") for a long time, it had it's own deck ("Ernham-Geddon") which was played by roughly every third guy on any given Type II tournament. Ernham Djinn! You wouldn't touch a 4/5 guy with a drawback for 4 mana with a ten foot pole but back then it was the best deal you could get! Basically, the stuff you DON'T play these days because it's too weak is still stronger than the average card people played in tourneys back then! It's just a handful of exceptional cards that are insanely powerful and those are the ones you hear of, but let me tell you that the average game of Magic back then meant summoning Craw Wurms and keeping them alive with Healing Salves.

Yes, I had the most fun in Magic tournaments in the good old days with Keeper style decks in Vintage. So versatile and nasty but also very difficult to play and build! But to this day I haven't met a deck that was as personal as Keeper - such a deck grows with his owner and matches his personanlity. I miss those days.

I was joking ... I just realized too late that you are probably all too young to get it AND that SECAM wasn't a thing in the US ... so just ignore me, I was trying to make a bad joke.

And it was made to beat the SECAM deck :D

Yes, check the comments above yours :)

... and it makes an exception for mana artifacts which would be the main reason to add something like this in the first place ... but thank you anyway because that reminds me that I totally forgot about NULL ROD :)

But now I have to cut yet another card and I don't know what :(

Good card but I can't go up the mana curve any more. If I am going to add that, then another creature of the same or higher casting cost has to go. That would be either the Marble Titan I just added or the Hokori I just added or the Celestial Crusader. Since Marble Titan doesn't work well with Hero of Bladehold, it would probably be him ...

Yeah, I know Stax from Type I, it's nightmare inducing :) However, my goal isn't a complete lockdown and definately not " long games with little fun" - I mean, long controllish games is exactly what I want to prevent. That's why I basically play an aggro-control white weenie with Stax-like elements but those Stax elements should also be able to deal damage (hence I look mainly for creatures with disruptive abilities).

So, Hokori is a very good suggestion, didn't even know this card exists (hadn't boosted Kamigawa block)!

Which means yet another card I have to cut ... and since the cards I added last are Hokori and Marble Titan, I am hesitant to cut guys like Savannah Lion - they may not be up to date anymore but I still need very cheap creatures to apply enough presure early enough.

Restore Balance is too hard to use. I would use the original Balance if it wasn't banned in Commander. But Restore Balance needs whopping 6 turns to go off. That's way too much time for my opponent to prepare for it. I might still play it for the land desctruction part, however, it also nukes creatures and I should be the one with more of them while the opponent will only have a few but bigger ones.

Worldslayer, yes, being "that guy" is a good description for this card :) I don't know, it's a bit on the expensive side of things but a very good reset button indeed! Could be problematic to trigger it, though, because by the time I can deploy and need a Worldslayer is also the time where my opponent will have at least one blocker to stop the Worldslayer wielding lunatic ... I will consider this, though.

About the 100 cards, yeah, I started out with 99 + commander and went to 100 when I added the Marble Titan because I haven't figured out yet what to cut. Your suggestion?

Because you also remember Max Headroom, pen&paper RPGs, and the Atari vs Amiga wars. I have seen The Goonies and Ghostbusters in the cinema when they were released :) And I bet that you also sat in front of your radio, waited for your song to record it on cassette tape (and prayed the radio jockey wouldn't start talking before the song ends)!

I was already 16 or so when I picked up Magic, starting with Revised and Fallen Empires ... that makes me an even older fart than surewhynot

Case in point: This "deck" here, which isn't even a deck and only up for a day has now as many likes as my old deckhelp "deck" http://www.mtgvault.com/puschkin/decks/puschkin-please-help-me/ in which I offered advice. I granted that help dozens of times and yet, somehow, a year's hard work and dedication is worth less likes than ... well, yeah.
This is just how people are rolling and why I can only recommend to not give a beeble about likes here on MTGVault :)

Sure, as I said before, the Hot Page is arbitrary and does not deserve the focus it gets. Once you are there you get hits and posts and because of that you stay on Hot page and because you are on hot page you get more posts - a never ending feedback loop.
And let's face it, people like random stuff and just flock to whatever is popular. Let's say Northy would post his new deck with an alternate account, I bet it would get next to zero attention.

About the question what you'd prefer: A few days of fame with a very popular decks and hundreds of likes or many decks with moderate likes: Definately the latter ... however, what I *actually* prefer is a few comments that point out the weaknesses and/or good suggestions or anything else that makes me think. I'll take that any day over a handful of likes.

I just replaced Swords to Plowshares with Path to Exile. This might be one of the few decks where giving the opponent life is not worth the trouble while I am going to nuke the basic land he gets via PtE anyway.