[EDH] Barrin, Master Wizard

[Offler]

As few new cards were recently printed I have decided to complete another monoblue deck:

Barrin, Master Wizard

Dispersing orb

Whats yours is mine or dead, whats mine is mine:
Sower of Temptation
Gilded drake
Chamber of manipulation
Perplexing chimera
Roil Elemental

Master thief
Vedalken plotter
Spawnbroker

Cytoplast Manipulator
Empress Galina
Djinn of Infinite deceits
Magus of the Unseen

Thada Adel, acquisitor
Daring thief

Puca's Mischief

Bribery
Desertion
Commandeer
Reins of Power

Scrivener
Archaeomancer

Homeward path

Arcane laboratory
...


Mana Accel:
Sol Ring
Mana Crypt
Mind Stone
Coldsteel Heart
Fellwar stone
Everflowing chalice
Mox Diamond
Prismatic lens
Star Compass
Lotus bloom

Land Boucing (landfall)
Undiscovered paradise
Oboro, Palace in the clouds

Reasons for such deck:
- More beatdown-based decks
- Too many eldrazi, titans, gods and mindslavers...

[FTW]

LOL sounds like your meta needs some Blatant Thievery.

The following cards may or may be hilarious in your deck:

Gather Specimens
Blatant Thievery
Ray of Command
Spelltwine
Hypnotic Siren
Blasting Station
Ashnod's Altar
Patron Wizard
Xenograft
Voidmage Prodigy
Supreme Inquisitor
Information Dealer
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Aphetto Grifter
Sigil Tracer
Coastal Wizard
Avarice Totem
Crystal Shard
Equilibrium


With Xenograft, make everything into a Wizard and you can exploit some of the Wizard tribal cards even with your opponents' creatures! Stealing something and sacrificing it to Voidmage Prodigy to counter something else is lulz.

Patron Wizard/Azami are generally good with the Inspired guy, letting you set up trades as you want.

With Avarice Totem + Coastal Wizard + 10 mana you can activate Wizard, then double stack Totem on top of it (effectively trading your Wizard for one of their creatures and keeping Avarice Totem). You keep Totem, get their creature, and Wizard (and something else nasty) get bounced. Rinse and repeat.

Equilibrium and other bounce effects are generally pretty nutty with Gilded Drake and his brethren.

[Offler]

The meta has shifted a bit.
a) Gods
Common destruction such as Vindicate suddently does not work, and some effects are in play simply for too long. People are willing to play Gods as their commanders for many reasons. One of them is hype over new set, other is fact that they have pretty decent long-term effects.

b) More people realized that 4th turn beatdown is simply not possible
Result is that more mid-late game decks are being created, with bigger creatures. And this is where the story begins. Many creatures are too overgrown to be left unpunished.

c) Blightsteel colossus, Eldrazi, Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon, Sheoldred, Whispering One
So since I was able to start combo (see my Teferi deck), simply anytime regardless of situation I have chosen strategy with Winter orb and slowing down the enemy. No stealing at all. So they started to play bigger and stronger creatures. People used to fact that I try to win on combo instead of good oldschool control.

As a result they placed in their decks simple disrupt abilities - such as Pernicious deed - which can be activated anytime (even with teferi in play) to destroy vital parts of the combo, but some of the creatures I mentioned were never removed from metagame, simply because I never tried to use it as and advantage.

There is even decklist with Kozilek, Butcher of Truth which acts as a commander, where owner of the deck states, that he is playing him only for drawing cards.

d) Result... Meta is sick and needs a cure - partial Decklist I posted.


Blatant thievery I simply did not want to be that evil, but it HAS to be included.
Ray of command I rather included Chamber of manipulation
Hypnotic siren hmm. When stolen creature is sacrificed, bestow ends, and Barrin can bounce it. Nice.
Equilibrium, Tidespout tyrant - How could I forget? :)

Wizard theme
I like the idea of Voidmage prodigy with Xenograft, will read the list closely, but mainly I wanted to add some simple control.

Altars of Sacrifice:
I was thinking of Phyrexian vault and Carnage Altar. For now the deck lacks drawing.

Scornful Egotist + Puca's Mischief
Acquire - basically Bribery for aftifacts. Still can search for Blightsteel colossus.