Re: My t1 control deck; please critique

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: Hi : I was thinking, how about putting in 2-3 moats (last time i checked they werent : restricted) and also adding 3 humility. You dont really have to worry about losing : them since you've got enough counterspells to protect them. This combo stops all creatures : including those nasty fliers. Maybe capsize are also a good idea. If something gets past your : counterspell. You might also like the of putting in those fireslingers, shooting away your opponents : creatures and losing life and then using mirror universe to switch life and then shoot him away : ok i hope this helpes a bit : Menno : : Blue (14): : : 2 Mana Drain : : 3 Counterspell (I'll replace 2 of them with Mana Drains as soon as I get them) : : 1 Amnesia : : 1 Braingeyser : : 1 Ancestral Recall : : 1 Impulse (maybe replace with a Mystical Tutor) : : 1 Mystical Tutor : : 1 Recall (I've originally had Gaea's Blessing, which worked pretty well, but Recall gives me cards right into hand; I've also though of Relearn, but quite often I take more than one card) : : 2 Force of Will (just in case) : : 1 Dismiss (a bit costly, but a good counterspell; maybe I will replace it with regular Counterspell) : : White (6): : : 2 Swords to Plowshares : : 2 Wrath of God (maybe replace one for a Moat, but there are so many annoying duty&flying creatures around, so Wrath suits the environment better; +it's harder for most decks here to deal with a sorcery than to deal with a permanent) : : 1 Balance (this is without doubt a very good card, but I've never needed to use it; maybe I'll move it to SB and side it in vs other control or a discard deck) : : 1 Disenchant : : Black (3): : : 1 Demonic Tutor : : 1 Vampiric Tutor (it was originally Mystical Tutor; but I quite often go for LoA or Mirror; maybe I'll replace the other Myst. Tutor with a Vampiric) : : 1 The Abyss : : Red (4): : : 2 Dwarven Miner (around here only 2 players have moxes, so I play Miners, because everybody has quite a lot of non-basics; most of the decks have over 50% non-basics) : : 1 Fireball : : 1 Lightning Bolt : : Green (1): : : 1 Regrowth : : Artifact (8): : : 2 Jayemdae Tome : : 1 Disrupting Scepter : : 1 Fellwar Stone (this is most of the time at least a 3-color diamond, quite often all-color, so maybe I could add one more) : : 1 Sol Ring : : 1 Black Lotus : : 1 Zuran Orb : : 1 Mirror Universe : : Lands (24): : : 4 Tundra : : 4 Volcanic Island : : 4 Underground Sea : : 2 Flood Plains (getting the mana of right color&thinning) : : 1 Library of Alexandria : : 1 Strip Mine : : 2 Wasteland : : 4 City of Brass : : 1 Island : : 1 Plains : : 60 cards total : : Sideboard (15): : : 1 Disrupting Scepter (vs control; maybe one more?) : : 2 Force of Will (vs compost and other nonsense combo decks) : : 2 Red Elemental Blast : : 3 Disenchant : : 2 Sacred Ground (LD and Geddons hurt and they are quite common here) : : 2 Anvil of Bogardan (vs Necro+I don't have to discard after a big card-drawing from a Geyser/Ancestral/Jayemdae) : : 1 Feldon's Cane : : 2 Kjeldoran Outpost (this may seem strange, but it's a pretty good way to beat control) : : I've just made up the SB in last 5 minutes, so I guess it is still missing something (in a real t1 environment, Mox Monkeys go at least into SB if not into main deck). I unfortunately don't have the Moxes, Time Walk and I traded away Timetwister some time ago (I'll get the Moxes sometimes; hopefully sometimes soon and then they'll go in). : : The deck did pretty well so far - the deck has only problems with discard and mana-denial; I've only lost 1 game out of around 20 (talking about luck, I've cast Mirror 4 times - Regrowth, then Recall Mirror and Regrowth, try to cast it, Regrowth it, then I finally got it through in a counterspell battle...and my opponent was lucky enough to draw his only Disenchant :-( It wouldn't be that bad if he hasn't Orb out and if he wasn't tapping the lands I untapped with Icy).