The deck wants in the opening hand a Mana Severance, may require mulligan digging. The mulligan rules, at least used at the playgroups and LGS I frequent are: Free Mulligan + London Mulligan rules.
If Severance isn't showing up, alternatives to obtain it are through Mystical Tutor, Muddle the Mixture, or Long-Term Plans. If none of those show up, settle for a Drift of Phantasms if possible to take a long route of Drift - Plans - Severance.
Serum Powder is self explanatory in a mulligan heavy deck.
Sol Ring is Sol Ring and everyone knows the song and dance for it by now.
Gemstone Caverns is in the deck not because you can reliably get it, but because it makes the deck run faster if fortune is favorable, it should however be considered secondary priority while getting Mana Severance or a tutor for Severance is primary priority.
From there Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Endless Atlas, and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries to dig deeper into the deck. After a Mana Severance, is usually 8-12 cards from testing depending on how the opening hand and mulligans and draws went. This means that, when factoring the draw from the draw phase, the deck has a draw power of 1-6, which means the deck is milled in 12-2 turns depending on draws and fortune from self mill.
Fastest it can be is a turn 4 win, slowest is turn 11.
In case of decks with a counterspell package it runs Cavern of Souls primarily to protect Prodigy.
The deck also packs a Paradigm Shift. This card essentially has two uses.
1) It restocks the deck with cards in the graveyard, which is 2-8 cards based on self-mill.
2) It can be used to accelerate the deck if a Maniac and/or Wielder are in hand or on the field based on the number of cards already in the graveyard, less is better for acceleration.
Since January of last year.
It may sound strange, but I actually didn't consult other lists when brewing this. Just through trial and error when brewing as the deck became a sort of puzzle mini-game in my free time.
1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
Artifacts
1 Endless Atlas
1 Sol Ring
1 Serum Powder
Creatures
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Drift of Phantasms
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Long-Term Plans
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Pact of Negation
1 Force of Will
1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
Sorceries
1 Paradigm Shift
1 Mana Severance
Lands
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Cavern of Souls
84 Island
If Severance isn't showing up, alternatives to obtain it are through Mystical Tutor, Muddle the Mixture, or Long-Term Plans. If none of those show up, settle for a Drift of Phantasms if possible to take a long route of Drift - Plans - Severance.
Serum Powder is self explanatory in a mulligan heavy deck.
Sol Ring is Sol Ring and everyone knows the song and dance for it by now.
Gemstone Caverns is in the deck not because you can reliably get it, but because it makes the deck run faster if fortune is favorable, it should however be considered secondary priority while getting Mana Severance or a tutor for Severance is primary priority.
From there Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Endless Atlas, and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries to dig deeper into the deck. After a Mana Severance, is usually 8-12 cards from testing depending on how the opening hand and mulligans and draws went. This means that, when factoring the draw from the draw phase, the deck has a draw power of 1-6, which means the deck is milled in 12-2 turns depending on draws and fortune from self mill.
In case of decks with a counterspell package it runs Cavern of Souls primarily to protect Prodigy.
The deck also packs a Paradigm Shift. This card essentially has two uses.
1) It restocks the deck with cards in the graveyard, which is 2-8 cards based on self-mill.
2) It can be used to accelerate the deck if a Maniac and/or Wielder are in hand or on the field based on the number of cards already in the graveyard, less is better for acceleration.