Drowned Catacomb is the new dual land blue/black and comes into play untapped as long as you have an island or swamp already in play.
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I like the setup of this mill deck. I like the idea of tapping all their permanents, but a slightly more effective way to handle it might be a few royal assasins. I also like keening stone for mill decks.
I love this deck. The only thing I would do normally here is to say add in some way to make the pridemates unblockable ie whispersilk cloaks or armored ascension. It looks like it would be a fun deck to play.
I kinda like Birds of Paradise over Noble Hierarch. I understand using the exalted part of the card, but I love the mana production of the birds. I like this deck in general. It is definitely creative, I'm not sure how incredibly effective it is.
While I like the strategy here, there are only 8 druids in the deck and so the gilt-leaf archdruid's ability to control their lands doesn't really come into effect unless you get them all out quickly. Maybe some wellwishers. I also like heedless one or some high cost eldrazi for ending the game or simply using the underused mana.
oh and Soul's Apprentice (same as soul warden except that it has a different name and thus you get 4 more copies of it, I love stalling token decks with that.)
I would put some Ajani's Mantras in here too. Cheap and does a great job of building up those pridemates every turn regardless of if you have spells to play or not.
Maybe the addition of some arc runners here might be nice. I like the idea of this deck though. Very cool.
I would go with Ajani's pridemate as said earlier and throw in ajani goldmane as well. I have a deck similar to this and works very well.