Budget Food Chains

[GenioDeArena]

Hi guys, I´ve own a Food Chain playset for some time now and I´d like to use it.
I´ve come up to a budget list, very experimental btw:


Budget UG Food Chain:

2_Ponder
4_Daze

4_Food Chain
4_Misthollow Griffin

4_Birds of Paradise
3_Sage of Epityr
1_Shrieking Drake
4_Cloud of Faeries
4_Spellstutter Sprite
2 Fierce Empath
2_Raven Familiar
4_Mulldrifter
1_Aethersnipe
1_Magus of the Future
1_Emrakul
1_Deathforge Shaman

4_Irrigation Ditch
10_Island
4_Forest

Since I´m on a budget I had to let go FOW, Trops And Fetches. And since there are no fetches, the need for BS dropped as well. The basic idea is to have as many creatures as possible. To swarm the board with chump-blockers or for going crazy with FC-Griffing.
For that I have the cantripping creatures and the Magus. Once I have infinite mana they will make me play my deck looking for finishers, or at least thats the idea.

I know that one of the bombs in the deck (actually in any deck that has a way to use him) is Emrakul, but I´m concerned about the other slot. I´m between Grisselbrand (latest kid in the block), Jin-Gitaxias, Iona, or other Eldrazi Titans.

What do you think, and how can I make this deck better?

Thanx in advance.

A.

[GenioDeArena]

I´ve been doing some testing, reading your comments, brainstorming a bit, and came up with this list. Sort of reminds me of old extended opposition decks.

4_Food Chain
3_Misthollow Griffin
2_Manipulate Fate

2_Wall of Roots
3_Mulldrifter
3_Fierce Empath
1_Aethersnipe
1_Griselbrand//Maga, Traitor to Mortals
1_Emrakul

4_Utopia Sprawl
4_Arbor Elf
4_Cloud of faeries

4_Root Maze
3_Winter Orb
3_Spell Pierce

1_Lotus Petal
3_Tinder Farm
2_Ancient Spring
4_Hinterland Harbor
5_Forest
3_Island

The reasoning behind this changes is that I realised that since I wasn´t using the duals/fetches for money reasons, I would just hate them out of spite. And Root Maze does just that. Combined with Winter Orb, thedeck should be able to hamper the opponent development until comboing. Also since I will be praying on manabases added some Spell Pierce. Also using Cloud of faeries, Arbor Elf and Utopia Sprawl to bypass the Maze and Orb effects and ramp like crazy.

As far as the Maga-Shaman debate. I think that maga is better, because you only need BBB to combo and leaves a bigger body, while the Shamans kicker costs R each time, and being a 4/3 isn´t spectacular either. But I havent tested them. So take this with a grain of salt. That spot anyways is dedicated to the second bomb in the deck, for a straight finisher i allready have Emmy, but for the second place I would rather have something that is searchable with the Empath.

As far as the SB (b/c sometimes we play using them) might be something like this:

Repopulate, Propaganda, Spellstutter Sprite, Relic, Tormod, Grip, Nature´s Claim.

I don´t know if this a good starting point because of the low number of creatures, I´d be running.