This deck uses one of my favorite card interactions, Act of Treason + Cloudshift, to take permanent control of the opponents creatures. When I found Ink-Treader Nephilim this turned into a four color deck which might be a bit ambitious for me. I've never made a deck with this many colors before.
The deck operates by having a lot of ETB effects with Elvish Visionary, Wall of Omens, and Sylvan Ranger that draw cards or fix mana with light recursion in Eternal Witness. These cards offer additional value when pared with cards like Cloudshift and Ghostly Flicker allowing me to use the abilities more than once.
The crux of the deck is Ink-Treader Nephilim which turns single target spells like Act of Treason, Traitorous Blood, and Cloudshift into multi-target spells. The combo can be difficult to pull off but if you pull it off you can you gain control of every creature, with Act of Treason or Traitorous Blood, attack, and then Cloudshift each creature under your control permanently, assuming your opponent isn't dead. This will also trigger any ETB effects. Keep this in mind if you're running short on cards in your library. You could end up milling yourself with a bunch of Wall of Omens and Elvish Visionary fairly easily if you let the game go on for too long.
What I like about this deck over other Act of Treason/ Cloudshift decks I've run in the past is that it doesn't rely on your opponent playing bombs. The deck can go wide and remove all of your opponents blockers and turn them into your attackers for a huge alpha strike.
One thing to consider is that Ink-Treader Nephilim turns targeted removal into board wipes so if you think your opponent has Murder or something hold Ink-Treader Nephilim until you can Cloudshift in response, which would flicker all of your creatures out of the targeted removal but not theirs, wiping their side only.
Thanks for checking out the deck. Please feel free to let me know what you think and suggest additions or subtractions.
Possession is 9/10 of the law.
