You definitely need Lotus Petal in this deck, instead of the island. With a combo you can win at turn 2 instead of 3 if i calculated correctly by casting Laboratory Maniac with Unearth. You also need a Lightning Axe to put the Maniac in the graveyard.You said you have 2 cards open for suggestion, I give you 3 but you have to remove the island. It's just 7 dollars more but it ends 1 turn faster.

Turn 1:

• Random land

Turn 2:

• Blasted Landscape

• Fluctuator

• Start cycling until you draw 2 Lotus Petal and the Lightning Axe.

• Use the 2 petals and use LIghtning Axe to discard Laboratory Maniac.

• Put Laboratory Maniac back into play with Unearth

• Start cycling again until you have no more cards into the deck

• Profit

You can either do that or play Fluctuator straight on turn one if you have Lotus Petal and Blasted Landscape in the opening hand, finishing the combo on turn 2 playing another Blasted Landscape and the 2nd Petal to cast Laboratory Maniac.

Not sure if you can win at turn 1 without ridiculously expansive or illegal cards, that would be interesting to check..

The Gitaxian Probe is surely worth in a combo deck since it basically allows you to play with 56 cards instead of 60, increasing the odds to get Fluctuator sooner. Same thing for the Street Wraith, you might lose a lot of life early but you don't really care if your deck ends on turn 2.

Ok nevermind, combo looked so nice but apparently I didn't consider that the limit to turn win in turn 2 is only 7 non-cycling cards in the deck (8 if you don't start first), otherwise the combo stops. Daaam, it looked so amazing :P

I mean, you can still build up a deck that can end on turn 2 removing fluctuators until you reach the non-cycling card limit but then I guess the deck becomes less reliable.

Anyway, this is a nice example of why power 9 are banned, a simple reusable mox at turn one would make it possible!

Thank you for the suggestions V0ldy! Yea trying to win on turn 2 would be really difficult when 4 of the cards are going to be Fluctuator. I also tried to make this deck more simple so it wouldn't be too confusing and better for casual play.

No idea why I'm getting obsessed with this deck :P

Found that Careful Study works way better than Lightning Axe. Now you can actually finish on turn 2 starting first removing only one Fluctuator from the deck. You might leave 4 Fluctuators but then i guess you could only do the 2nd turn combo if you can draw at turn 1.

So, for now my idea is:

• +2 Lotus Petal
• +2 Gitaxian Probe

• +1 Careful Study

• -1 Island

• -1 Fluctuator (or not, depends if you want to be able to end on turn 2 in evey circumstance).
• -3 or 4 cycling spells (depends if you keep the fluctuator or not)

I'm gonna try some experiment with Sol Ring now ;)

V0ldy - I don't know why I never thought about Sol Ring before, I'll take it into consideration. Unfortunately after playtesting for a while, I forgot that 2 of the cards are used for playing lands, and really, only 6 of these cards can be used for non-cycling unless I go 2nd. I could use Careful Study to replace one of the cycling cards since I could use it to discard any of the non-cycling cards. Its worth about the same price as Unearth, so I will replace that, THANKS!

After playtesting with Careful Study, I realize that it consumes U on turn 3, and the only other way I could have a laboratory maniac on turn 3 is spend B on Unearth which is unlikely. I'm really trying to avoid adding that Lotus Petal because the price is kind of outrageous. It brings up the deck price by like $25. :(

That is the special edition, Lotus Petal from tempest is quite cheap for its power.