Creatureless no-wincon control! Deck built around using Ice Magic, Memory Lapse, Counterspell and Deem Inferior as ways to disrupt the opponents decks, and trap them in cyclical hell. Deem Inferior is 3 mana at most, but combos with Brainstorm, and also works well with card advantage and cantrips as well, in general. Ice Magic is top or bottom for 4 mana, but doubles as a 2 mana creature Boomerang which comes up in the early game. I literally forgot this has Blizzaga on it, as you basically never want to use Blizzaga, even if you have the mana for it. We also have Sleep of the Dead as sort of recurrable soft removal. Then we have 2 Deep Analysis, 2 Behold the Multiverse, and a full playset of Lorien Revealed as card advantage (with Lorien doubling as a fetch land). The reason for this split is that you want some instants to cast as you hold up countermagic, but you also want recurrable card draw, but you don't want to pay more than 6 life basically ever, so this split makes the most sense. Then we round things out with full playsets of our cantrips, Preordain which is the best on face value, but not as good in combination with shufflers, Brainstorm which we have plenty of shuffle effects for, Ponder, the weakest of the three in this deck but still very good at smoothing draws and enabling Deem Inferior.
So how do we win? We mostly just force concessions by making sure the opponent can't play. Then we prevent decking by using Clear the Mind loops. Sleep of the Dead can banish lands and other bad cards from the graveyard, and you pull the lands out of your deck as you make your land drops, so after a shuffle the card quality ends up being really high. Clear the Mind is also another shuffle for Brainstorm.
Siding Guide
Affinity -
In: 4 Annul, 1 Steel Sabotage
Out: 4 Ice Magic, 1x Sleep of the Dead
Experimental Synthesizer (of all kinds)-
In: 4 Hydroblast, 2x Blue Elemental Blast, 4 Annul, 1x Steel Sabotage
Out: 1 Clear the Mind, 4 Ice Magic, 1 Behold the Multiverse, 1 Deep Analysis, 4 Memory Lapse
UWx Familiar -
In: 2 Tormod's Crypt
Out: 2 Sleep of the Dead
Mono-blue Terror -
In: 4 Tormod's Crypt
Out: 1 Sleep of the Dead, 1 Deep Analysis, 2 Ice Magic
Red decks (RDW, Burn, Madness) -
In: 4 Hydroblast, 2 Blue Elemental Blast
Out: 2 Deep Analysis, 1 Clear the Mind, 1 Ice Magic
Note: Against Rakdos decks on Synthesizer and Black Mage's Rod side out another 3 Ice Magic and 2 Prohibit for Annul and Steel Sabotage
Faeries -
No siding
Monster Tron -
No siding
Combo Tron -
In: 4 Tormod's Crypt
Out: 2 Prohibit, 2 Sleep of the Dead
Mono-Black Sacrifice -
In: 4 Annul, 1 Steel Sabotage
Out: 4 Ice Magic, 1 Clear the Mind
