This deck has HUGE tracks of land

Commander / EDH Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor

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Update #1 —Oct. 1, 2018

I swapped in a few cards to increase consistency and to help my deck combat the rampant blue at my local LGS. A recent game prompted me to add these cards after I had to battle through 6 Cyclonic Rifts, multiple Chain of Vapors, and some counter magic all directed at me. Even then, it took a misplay on my part (I accidentally tapped out of red mana for Chaos Warp), to finally be beat down by a reanimated Consuming Aberration. I was very happy with my deck's resiliency, but there were a few cards I wished I had access to.

TL;DR, while my deck is already quite resilient, I feel a few more anit-blue cards and ways to move lands around will really beef this deck up.

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Red Elemental Blast - If I had access to this to stop one of those Cyclonic Rifts, I would've won that game. I have also been hit hard by counter magic in other games, so I hope this helps. I don't think running both Red Elemental Blast and Pyroblast is correct as I don't want to play too many narrow cards, but we shall see.

Zuran Orb and Squandered Resources - Ironically, having lands on the battlefield is the worst location for them to be in my deck. I ended the previously described game with 20 lands on the battlefield. It was great to be able to cast anything I wanted, but I want to be freely moving lands between zones. These cards will give me much needed life/mana and a way to quickly move my lands into my graveyard so I can recycle them later.

Underrealm Lich - The "Underwhelming Lich" as my friends and I so affectionately call it after one of them misread the name. This card is a house. Paired with Sylvan Library it lets us see 9 cards a turn without any loss of life. Paired with The Gitrog Monster essentially lets me draw my whole deck with the amount of lands I am running (it is also a great anti-mill card should something terrible happen to Kozilek).

The cards that I removed were mainly ones that were underperforming or just didn't provide enough impact.