Price of Glory is my favorite for the flavor text alone.
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I don't care about Prophet, but don't get mad at me when I play a deck based around discarding your hand every turn, and blowing up the board when I'm not. Unfortunately that's not going to happen. That is why I dislike prophet, not because of it's strength, but because the counter to it is statistically unfun strategies.
Source: I actually tried it a year ago.
Top control for sure gets a lot of hate. The point of the deck was originally as a cute troll deck, and has kept to those roots. At least the troll part; I dunno if you can call it cute anymore.
If we can get a card banned from this deck made up of throw aways and barging bin nothings, Id consider that a win. Otherwise, this deck will become a it's own pillar. People will try it, and with the amount of thinking it takes to pilot it well, it will fall out of favour.
What you are wrong about is calling it like eggs though. Eggs was banned due to it extending tournament times. Not the case here, as Top controls turns are faster on average than any other deck. It takes 20+ turns a game, but it's disingenuous to say they take the same amount of time as a deck whose loop takes 15 minutes on one turn.
If you ever have a win vs this deck, you should ALWAYS play it out. That goes for any deck. What other players are slow to realize though are when they are actually locked. Having 3 mill rocks on the board with you having no control over your draw step means you have lost if you can't win with your current hand. Feel free to continue, but there is a difference between having the win and being locked away from winning.
Good luck in your future games.
By the way, I did the math. If they have 20 hate cards, 40 cards left in their deck, and are hoping to top deck through 3 mill rocks: 95% chance of them drawing nothing if you mill them on your endstep, and 99.6% chance if you mill them on their endstep.
Btw.
Edit: Whew.
That being said, lets go Top Control you got this!
Mikokoro is worth it as a 1 sided draw effect. I see what I'm having them draw, and I do not plan on having them draw a good card.
Darksteel is worth it to protect Glimmer void from a weak hand or from mass artifact removal, or as a 5/5 from Tezz.
Ghost Quarter is worth it mostly as a color fetch. I run 3 basics as I am loathe to lose a spells kite to a path for free or to get wastlanded. I ghost quarter my own lands if I need a certain color, as any land after 3rd is useful, and any after the 6th is too much. Ghost Quarter + Darksteel is just gravy. Rarely are their lands that I need to ghost quarter from the opponent, but it does come up as a deterrent.
I ran a MB with it and with Murderous Cut to try out different removal cards.
Also as a mostly mud deck, even if Iona was the meta majority, it still would not be a danger.
Crucible doesn't help against Tron as much as killing their win cons. You have 3-5 turns to strip their hand of Stirrings and win cons, because if you focus on killing their mana base like every other deck does vs tron, you are going to lose on turn 15 to an Emrakul, and that's if you haven't lost to a turn 7 Karn.
Vs Leyline, usually I Ghoulcaller's bell my way to victory, or I mill myself till I get the correct enchantment removal.
4 Mox Opal
4 Codex Shredder
4 Lantern of Insight
3 Ghoulcaller's Bell
3 Spellskite
4 Ensnaring Bridge
Dig
1 Infernal Tutor
3 Ancient Stirrings
2 Faithless Looting
Removal
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Duress
1 Thoughtseize
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Pyrite Spellbomb
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
2 Pithing Needle
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Sun Droplet
Lands
2 Academy Ruins
4 Glimmervoid
3 Darksteel Citadel
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Blackcleave Cliff
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Mikokoro, Center of The Sea
1 Forest
1 Swamp
1 Island
1 Spellskite - Protection for targeted Removal, Burn
1 Sun Droplet - High Speed Damage decks, Grindy damage over time decks
1 Sunbeam Spellbomb - High Speed Damage decks
1 Extirpate - Grave Decks, Snapcaster Mage, Ancient Grudge, Combo Decks
1 Ancient Grudge - Meddlesome Artifacts
1 Ray of Revelation - Stony Silence, Eidolans, Splinter Twin
1 Abrupt Decay - Blue decks, Enchantments, Artifacts, Liliana of the Veil
1 Pyroclasm - Swarm Aggro decks
1 Negate - Fracturing Gust, Planeswalkers, Other non Creature decks
1 Boros Charm - Fracturing Gust and other Mass artifact wipes, Burn Spell
1 Pithing Needle - Tron
1 Slaughter Games - Any deck that is not aggro
1 Tezzeret Agent of Bolas - Any deck that is not aggro
1 Grafdigger's Cage - Grave Decks, Snapcaster Mage, Ancient Grudge
1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver - Counter Stony Silence, Faster Clock
Edit:
I did do Sphinx's Tutelage for a bit to see how it was. It is good, but I'd argue in most cases Ashiok is better. The only time Tutelage is better is if your Dig cards are all about drawing and not about Ancient Stirrings.