[Deck] Budget MonoU Fish

[Cyrus]

Well I can't really buy many expensive cards and I already have the FoWs, the Cloud of Faeries, a Jitte and the Counterspells, so I threw this together:

MonoU Fish - 60 cards

20 Island
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Cloud of Faeries
3 Ninja of the Deep Hours
3 Inkfathom Infiltrator
2 Cursecatcher
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Mask of Memory
2 Grafted Wargear
4 Brainstorm
4 Counterspell
2 Echoing Truth
1 Rushing River
1 Snapback


I don't really have a sideboard yet. Well, any input is really appreciated. I really miss 1cc cards, but I don't really know what to use.
This particular deck can go really aggro with the Grafted Wargears that at first sight really seem to be random, but they work. Ninja + Mask of Memory is hot card advantage. I know the equipments look really random, but they work and that's what I have for now. This deck has a nice matchup against combos, but it lacks in the aggro part, just like many fish decks. It's 50/50 against control so far, the high number of counters really helps and if they play a standstill you can play a spellstutter sprite in response and keep beating. I think more flash creatures would help, but I dont want this to turn into a faeries deck.

[dude 666]

Didn't the original fish play standstill itself? Standstill could be good in here if you threw in some manlands.

A good 1 drop is cloud sprite; it also happens to help your spellstutter sprites.
About your equipment- grafted wargear-not so hot. Mask of memory is pretty good, as is jitte, but you're gonna need more of each. Another equipment you may consider is sword of fire and ice (or the other, in my opinion, inferior sword), but it has a slightly prohibitve manacost.

You should add ponder, and lose a couple of lands. Generally, you're not gonna have :u: :u: open that often, so I would cut the counterspells. Speaking of which, unless you play more creatures with flash, you're gonna end up holding spellstutter sprite in hand without countering anything. Which brings me to my next point- aether vial. Play 4.

That's about all I got for now. Good luck with it.