If you want to use Fulminator Mage, use multiples. I doubt only getting one out will stall them just long enough for you to combo off.
Knight of the Reliquary grabbing Tectonic Edge (NOT Ghost Quarter--here, you have to balance how much you hate RG Artifact Tron with how much you hate Scapeshift) also works, especially against the versions that don't run black or white and therefore are stuck with bounce and burn as removal.
Aven Mindcensor is probably the best hate bear available in GWB if you want to combat Scapeshift. Gaddock Teeg does admirably, but he shuts off Chord of Calling and can't cooperate with un-cast Birthing Pods. The old Realm Razer tech also works, but may be too slow, and it's likely to die to instant-speed removal, anyway.
The typical enchantment hate bears hit Prismatic Omen.
Post-RTR, I recommend squeezing in Deathrite Shaman maindeck in fetch-heavy builds (at least 8), Dryad Militant in your 75 (most efficient UR Storm hate bear ever, plus it helps slightly against Loam), and swapping all sideboard Maelstrom Pulses with Abrupt Decays (hits everything you need it to except Linvala, and uncounterably kills Prismatic Omen and Deceiver Exarch to boot). I may be able to update the primer this weekend.
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So, now DRS drops in price, BB goes up $40, and I'm out some cash and will never see any BB's. This blows.
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Initially, I built the deck to be as flash-y as possible, minus the cliques because of price. It had Resto and Izzet Charm and no Cryptics, but because I ran fewer creatures(no clique, no Thundermaw, no Mindcensor), if I didn't see Geist games often dragged out and I didn't have enough gas to come out on top. I thought I solved that with Sphinx's Revelation, which worked for awhile. But after I realized that I was pulling out wins just from Rev, what the hell would've happened if it got countered or I got land screwed?
Enter Ajani Vengeant and Elspeth, Knight-Errant. Control lists already played Ajani, and a few lists ran Elspeth in the board for when they needed to put on a clock. Both dodge Abrupt Decay and Inquisition of Kozilek which are highly played, and left alone, they will both inevitably win the game. Sometimes, I see nothing but Remand, Leak, Cryptic, Bolt, Ajani, and so my deck plays like a control deck, which is fine because Ajani will just -7 and win. Other times, I see Geist, Elspeth, and various removal, which is fine because I'll still put on a clock and I (hopefully) won't need counters.
And even if these 2 lines of play happen to mix, I'm still ok. Ajani + Geist = clearing the path for Geist and gaining life or keeping things like Goyf tapped down. Elspeth + just counters = make a token and and pump/swing every turn, mitigating threats with Cryptic and Leak. Any way you slice it, there's a clock, and walkers are much harder to kill than creatures. Also, I curve out at 4 which means I can run 25 lands.
Obviously there are games when I'm boarding Elspeth out, but those are either really fast games like a super aggro or dedicated combo deck, or games when I really need to play like a control deck.
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First sliver hits the field, trigger. Second sliver hits the field, now it has its own instance of destroy target artifact or enchantment, and it has another destroy instance from the sliver that's already on the battlefield, so this new one has 2 triggers, for a grand total of 3 triggers.
At least, that's how I understood it when it was brought up before.
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http://www.starcitygames.com/article/25854_Jamming-Modern.html
He takes a unique approach by running 4 Cryptics and 2 Revelations, a sort of combination of the old Geist list and the URW Control list. He took second at a PTQ in Melbourne.
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