MTG Salvation

Hello! First deck post here. I keep most of my decks on TappedOut and I'm making the jump to MTGSalvation. My other decks are Ruric Thar(big beaters), Daxos (voltron/pillowfort), Aboshan (big fliers and stuff that blue does), Rakdos (Eldrazi combo), and Chainer (gimmick all-girls reanimation). You can see them all on TappedOut under this username if you are curious, but I will be migrating to here over the next few weeks. My playgroup is not combo heavy and for the most part, we play casually - but we also understand that the game has to end sometime. So I won't run stuff like Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond (but I will do stuff like Palinchron+Deadeye Navigator or Rings of Brighthearth+Basalt Monolith, and play them when I'm sure I can win the game). However, since Exquisite Blood paints a target on my head, Sanguine seems more fun from a politics standpoint, so I am eager to try it out by itself. Aaaand update, I cut Sanguine Blood.

This deck was made with one big goal in mind: Play at least (a color combo I haven't played yet) and have quite a bit of artifact and enchantment removal, ie, things most EDH decks seem to lack a large amount of. It eventually turned into an deck and I felt like I could play Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (for tempo) or Dakkon Blackblade interchangeably. That being said, this deck had three things in mind when it was made:

1. Big, lifelink creatures and lifegain
2. Clone effects
3. Artifact and enchantment removal

Depending on who's at the table in my playgroup, this deck will have a sideboard w/ more GY hate like Tormod's Crypt, Relic of Progenitus, and Withered Wretch.

Theme Song

Not so much suggestions as just throwing ideas out there:

Capitalize on lifegain with cards like Storm Herd, Necropotence, and Phyrexian Reclaimation. Run some on-theme equipment like Batterskull and Sword of Light and Shadow. You've got a lot of decent cmc spells, so going instant speed with Leyline of Anticipation, Vedalken Orrery, or Winding Canyons can let you keep mana open to also be reactive with your removal.

Thanks for the ideas. I made room for Phyrexian Reclamation, Batterskull, and Basilisk Collar. I might throw in Loxodon for good measure but I fear it might become redundant with all the clone effects. Lightning Greaves went in because it exists. I really do feel weird about adding more artifacts - I guess there is something about wanting to clear other players' non-creature permanent out of the way but not wanting to be vulnerable to the same thing. Adding to the lifegain theme was a good idea though.

I put in Sun Titan, removed one of the cheesy win cons (Test of Endurance), ramp that didn't fetch me a land for Dakkon, replaced Erebos with Mystic Remora, and replaced Unmake with Terminus for removal variety.

So finally, you've gained life, you've removed big problems, and now you're ready to play Dakkon. I added Dauthi Embrace and I am looking for a place for things like Whispersilk Cloak to play alongside Venser to make sure that Dakkon swings in for the win. I'm thinking I'm going to cut out 1 or 2 of my ramp cards for other stuff even though fetching lands for Dakkon seems p good.