MTG Salvation

I've been finally bitten by the EDH bug, so I recently threw together an Oona, Queen of the Fae deck with cards I had lying around. It's designed mainly around milling, with counter spells and spot removal to help make the game miserable for everyone else involved.

Here's the list



Works good so far, though I feel like it could probably mill even faster then it does. Any advice?

Question:

1) How competitive do you want to be?
2) What's your budget?

To answer your questions...

1. Somewhat competitive. It's mostly casual for me when it comes to EDH, but I do want to get into a local EDH league operating at the place I play FNM at. This deck is complete, though I am open to adjustments, since I am new to the format.

2. Not very high, because I am trying to recoup my entry fee into Legacy.

I think the easiest first steps would be to:

1. Increase creature quality. You don't need super expensive creatures to improve upon stuff like Dimir Guildmage. If I were building this, I would ditch both guildmages, the Belltower Sphinx (not good enough for edh, imo), Circu, Dimir Lobotomist (too slow), Oona's Prowler, Vedalken Entrancer, Mistbind Clique, Fiend of Shadows, possibly some others. There's just better stuff around. Like Shadowmage Infiltrator, for instance.

2. I'm not convinced one-off mill cards like Glimpse the Unthinkable and Tome Scour are worth it. I'd rather put Paranoid Delusions on something with evasion, or use trepanation blade... stuff that repeats. I don't think stuff like Glimpse gives you enough value for a card slot.

3. Keys to succeeding in 1v1 Commander is keeping your curve low and finding card advantage wherever possible; I'd look into maybe lowering your mana curve a bit.

Keep us posted!

I am building a version of this my self.

Some things I have put in that you have not.



Plus some others, but I can give the full list later.

Another helpful tip: you're going to want closer to 38 lands. Especially in UB, where you don't exactly have land ramp.