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Finally finished building the final iteration of my Venser's Journal deck. I think I've finally got it right, this time. Only thing I could probably go for a little bit more of, is more a little more card draw.. maybe a pair of Howling Mines. Use card draw to quickly go through your deck. Counterspell, Stoic Rebuttal, Disperse, Contagion Clasp, and Wall of Tears to control the board while waiting for your deck to thin. Jace's Erasure and Grindclock to mill your opponent, and Temple Bell for card advantage and thin your opponent's deck even more. Once your deck is down to its last cards, use Elixir of Immortality to recycle counterspells and disperse to control the end game until your opponent is milled. Archmage Ascension is slow to charge, but once it is, I can use it to pull out the rest of my Temple Bells, or whatever else I need. It also means that late game, I'll always have a counter spell in my hand. Sideboard exists entirely to splash black for Leyline of the Void, plus 3x Psychosis Crawlers for an alternate win condition. Also, it's a toss up between Brainstorm for raw card advantage, and Preordain for the option of cycling through the top of my library. For now I'm going with Preordain to cycle through my deck better, but I'll play with both and decide I which like more. There's also room for some obvious improvements with big expensive cards like Jace 2.0. But this is built from what I have, and is a very cheap deck to build. I don't feel like expending my entire trading pool just to get a planeswalker. EDIT: My live play tests have been much more successful than the sample hands I've just drawn. Also, this deck is a bitch to play live, because you pretty much have to do a hard core shuffle after every game, or else all the cards will be clumped together >.>
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considered adding little jace for draw power? also helps Jace's Erasure
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I did have 3 Temple Bells and 1 Jace at first, but decided to replace him with another Temple Bell because I can draw a card at instant speed. Useful if I ever need to tutor for a counter spell or dispersal (via Archmage Ascension). I'd love to add my Jace to the deck, but it's packed full as it and I'm not really willing to drop anything. :3
Archmage ascension is really not that good.
You realise that "draw" is what you do at the beginning of every turn, right? So every turn, you get to find exactly the card you want or need. But like he said, it takes a while to charge. But still, anything that could summon a few creatures quickly would wipe this deck out before it could get going.
Archmage Ascension really isn't that good, no. But anything to help me get more Temple Bells. I might end up dropping them for another Counterspell, Stoic Rebuttal, and Disperse. And yeah, this deck isn't very competitive in 1v1, I'll likely only play it in Two Headed Giant where my ally can compensate for my weaknesses to give me time to cast Venser's Journal for some pretty sweet life gain. I think there's enough control going on here to put a stop to any card advantage my opponents gain from Temple Bell.
interesting, I personally am the only one in my club running mill and have always had 100+ cards in the deck. the point of multiplayer for mill is a good idea,no creatures needed, but mabye not if you are going for erasure. do you think you could also take a look at the current form of my mill deck? you much more experienced than I and I would love some input.