Team Wizzy (Grixis Wizards)

[bfeingersh]

Here's a rough list I came up with and a couple friends helped me tweak. Looking for critiques from the internet community at large.

My 2 biggest questions right now are 1) should I be in white over red for Stoneforge, STP, maybe Vindicate? and 2) can I fit Mutavaults in my manabase?


//Creatures:
4x Dark Confidant
4x Spellstutter Sprite
3x Vendilion Clique
2x Snapcaster Mage
2x Grim Lavamancer

//Artifacts:
4x Aether Vial
1x Umezawa's Jitte
1x Sword of Feast and Famine

//Instants:
4x Force of Will
4x Brainstorm
1x Counterspell
2x Spell Snare
1x Ghastly Demise
1x Go for the Throat
1x Diabolic Edict
2x Terminate
1x Dismember

//Lands:
4x Underground Sea
3x Volcanic Island
1x Island
4x Polluted Delta
4x Scalding Tarn
4x Wasteland
2x Riptide Laboratory

//Sideboard:
3x Perish
4x Leyline of the Void
2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Ghastly Demise
1x Spell Pierce
4x Duress

[sco0ter]

First I'd add Patron Wizard (for Stifle). THE reason to play Wizards at all.
Then cut Wastelands obviously, too.
Second I'd cut red because Grim Lavamancer doesn't work well with Snapcaster. I'd try Meddling Mage instead (or Sower of Temptation or Venser).
Third I'd cut all removal for StP.
And Snapcaster is probably worth one more slot and Vendilion one less.
Spell Snare is probably better than Daze then, too, if you don't run mana denial and it is better with Snapcaster.

[bfeingersh]

My friend and I were flipping through my binder last night and found a couple Patron Wizards. He really wanted it to work. We'll see.

And I think cutting red is the first big change I need to make. Is SFM too clunky? 6 slots for her + SoFAF/BSkull is a lot.

[otherside]

4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
3 Tundra
1 Scrubland
1 Island
3 Mutavault
1 Riptide Laboratory

4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Vendilion Clique
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Dark Confidant

4 Force of Will
3 Spell Snare
3 Spell Pierce
4 Brainstorm
4 Swords to Plowshares

4 Aether Vial
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Batterskull


Very Similar List to Metalwalker in the other thread. Except i dropped daze for pierce/Snare.

[willhocks]

This deck is very tribal, and yet the only card that you run that interacts with the creature type that all your creatures share is Riptide as a singleton? It's cool that a lot of powerful legacy cards happen to be wizards, but you don't have any lords, so why even run mutavault?

Cards to consider:

Mistbind Clique (can be a soft lock with riptide)
Patron Wizard
Voidmage Prodigy