i did a similar deck around wizards i had to shelf it because my play group started to get pissed at me haha but here it is, Basically it was murder by mill/card draw.
Back in Onslaught Block days I used to run a Patron Wizard/Cephalid Constable mono-blue deck. Use lots of 1 and 2 drop wizards and if you drop a Patron Wizard on turn 3 you have a soft counter to anything they can cast and use hard counters for anything else. If instead you draw a Constable then there was an enchantment in block for 1U that gave +1/+1 and flying and a bounce effect by discarding a card you could cast on the opponents creature if necessary. Throw that on the Constable and on turn 4 swing for 2 damage and bounce two lands back to their hands. If you could get two swings in you basically locked them at 1 mana, while you draw into hard counters or the Patron Wizard and soft lock them.
For 2 drops I used Information Broker which let you look at the top X cards on your deck where X is the number of wizards in play and put them back in any order and Voidmage Prodigy.
But I never really succeeded in getting a functional deck out of them.
4 Patron Wizard
4 Voidmage Prodigy
4 Fatespinner
21 Island
3 Riptide Laboratory
I also have playsets of Azami, Lady of Scrolls and Cephalid Constable.
Any ideas on making the deck better? Aether Vial is an obvious choice, but I would like to avoid it because of the price.
Maybe Sun Droplet?
Any ideas on making this a viable deck?
These are the decks that I have constructed, and are ready to play:
01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
Maybe something like this?
I'm afraid it might lack the body against aggro.
4 Sage of Epityr
4 Voidmage Prodigy
4 Patron Wizard
3 Fatespinner
1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
1 Cephalid Constable
1 Magus of the Future
1 Master of Waves
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Surgespanner
3 Counterspell
3 Capsize
2 Brainstorm
2 Vedalken Æthermage
2 Stream of Unconsciousness
Artifacts: 3
3 Diviner's Wand
19 Island
2 Riptide Laboratory
3 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
What about cutting some cards to get mana acceleration?
Wouldn't Oona be a better finisher than Master of Waves?
OK. I added Surgespanner, Realmright.
Cut a counterspell/capsize/a fatespinner.
These are the decks that I have constructed, and are ready to play:
01. Ankh Sligh to be exact.
4 Halimar Depths
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
3 reliquary tower
12 Island
Enchantments 3
3 sphinx's tutelage
4 Ixidor's Will
Creatures 31
2 Fatespinner
4 Lighthouse Chronologist
2 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
3 Supreme Inquisitor
2 Information Dealer
3 Jace's Archivist
3 Disruptive Student
4 Aphetto Grifter
4 Patron Wizard
2 Psychosis Crawler
2 Riptide Director
For 2 drops I used Information Broker which let you look at the top X cards on your deck where X is the number of wizards in play and put them back in any order and Voidmage Prodigy.