With the addition of Aether Revolt, I wanted to take another crack at my Wizard Tribal deck. I eventually settle on Izzet colors for the original (http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/01-12-16-yer-a-wizard/), but it was sadly underwhelming so I thought I'd give it a try with Black as its secondary color.
As with the Izzet version, this deck is all about slamming a Docent of Perfection
and getting it to flip. This means we need a barrage of nimble Instants and Sorceries to control our way through the early game and generate 1/1 Wizard tokens after our Docent is on the board. Other than counterspells and removal, though, we also want some spells we can cast proactively so we aren't dependent on our opponent's actions to flip.
Let's start with the wizards: Baral, Chief of Compliance, Asylum Visitor, and
Halimar Tidecaller
. These guys are mostly here to pre-load the battlefield so we can flip our Docent with just one or two spells rather than the full three, but they also do a lot of work. Baral obviously makes everything we do cheaper (he's also a lightning rod for removal, making the way a bit safer for our Docent), Asylum Visitor can help us draw a few cards later on in addition to being quite aggressive (we may even be able to cast her for her Madness cost a few times), and Tidecaller lets us re-use our main control spells.
Speaking of control, Ruinous Path and Scatter to the Winds are the deck's bread and butter. They're incredible with Baral on the field (Counterspell with upside in Standard, whee!) but strong even without him. The deck can even use them to make extra bodies if we have spare mana. We also run three each of Negate and Fatal Push to deal with smaller threats; Evolving Wilds may occasionally allow us to cast Push with Revolt, but it's mostly there to make sure we can manage both our BB and UU casting costs. Don't hold up Evolving Wilds just to kill something.
Finally, our playset of Anticipates enables on-demand Docent flips, with the 3x Collective Brutality allowing us to disrupt our opponent whenever we want (we might even get to Madness out a Visitor occasionally, though we can also chuck a Ruinous Path or Scatter and get it back with Tidecaller).
The sideboard is mostly for tuning: Ceremonious Rejection is for dealing with artifacts since we don't have a good way of removing them once they're on the battlefield, Turn Aside is good against removal-heavy decks, Grasp of Darkness is a way to reliably disrupt the Copycat deck, and Harsh Scrutiny can replace Collective Brutality when facing off against decks with big creatures or creatures with nasty ETB effects.
Anyway, all suggestions would be appreciated as this deck is largely theoretical at the moment. I'm especially uncertain about the sideboard. I'd kinda like to include Metallic Mimic, but I suspect I'd have to replace one of the creatures already in the deck, at which point I might as well stick with what I have.
