MTG Salvation

Braids, Conjurer Adept: Kill, Clone, or Capture

Introduction

This is an atypical Braids, Conjurer Adept deck. She acts as a Show and Tell deck and is a deck you have to think through and is a build around general. While the deck can survive without Braids, the deck does well with her. She is a very political deck to play with and against. Her effects allow you to make friends early in the game, while allowing you to partition some of the control variables around without throwing yourself off course.

This deck has no direct "I win" scenario, and yet is very blue but not really "blue." If you enjoy playing large creatures and copying things, this is the deck for you. If you want fast control and easier wins, then another commander is certainly in order. This deck will falter against heavy combo based metagames.

Do not let certain pricier card choices hold you back, those cards can easily be replaced with other cheaper alternative without particularly harming the deck's power potential. The bones and increasingly wider arrangement of big blue creatures allows this general to grow over the next several years unimpeded.

Deck History

The history of this deck begins with her being found in the 3 for a dollar bin at the local game store. Looking for a unique blue general and a cheap one at that, she fit all the criterion. The other cards were cheap to acquire to assemble the skeleton while also having other extra copies of specific certain pricier cards as well. She was originally designed to be group hug oriented, but then has shifted to more of a "bear hug" strategy after everyone gets drunk on power and she acts as the bouncer.

The Deck



How the Deck Works

Please critique and suggestions are welcome, thank you.

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As a first look, here's some suggestions for cards that are similar to ones in your deck, and I feel are a little better.
Redirect is a lot better than Deflection
Instead of Confiscate, you might run Volition Reins which is a tad better, or go up a mana for Take Possession (ie they can't use an ability or save it in response) or go big with Blatant Thievery.
I tend to like the newschool Aetherling over the old Morphling, besides being bigger, you can save aetherling from boardwipes and unblockable>flying.
And the 0 mana on spellbook makes me like it over library of leng, unless library's other ability is doing a lot for you.
As far as stealing goes, there are options like Vedalken Shackles and Gilded Drake or something like Memnarch (which can steal any permanent for 7 total mana)
Cryptic Command also a really good card when you are running a bunch of counters and a bunch of bounce spells.