Thanks, glad you like it. I've been experimenting with it a bit lately and made a couple of changes you might wanna try.

First one is indeed the one you mentioned: -1 Time Warp, +1 Hall of Triumph. Mainly for the cost and they serve a similar purpose in this deck: Getting additional damage through.

Second one: -3 Paragon of Gathering Mist, +3 Quickling. Lower cost again, which helps to get a decent start a little more consistently. It's pretty good to save a creature from removal or as a surprise blocker against tokens. And it's very useful to buff a late Cloudfin Raptor twice or get a final buff via Kraken Hatchling.

Final change: -2 Chasm Skulker, +2 Void Snare. I wanted something to get rid of enchantments, e.g. to reset the counters on Beastmaster Ascension. It's useful in many situations and cheap enough to fit in without disrupting your flow. Basically another tempo card. Not sure if Chasm Skulker is the right card to remove, but he's kinda situational. There are some decks he's really not that good against.

If you are dropping the Paragons and the Time warp I would absolutely drop the mana down to 20 or 21 Islands, which, in turn, leaves some room to include the Chasm Skulkers. They really are better with Paragon in the deck mostly because you can make them fly over the top for a ton of damage, but I can't see a better replacement for this deck. If you go 21 Islands with no Paragons I would drop 1 Maritime Guard for the second Chasm Skulker.

That's what I thought, but with 20 lands I ran into quite a few 0-1 mana starting hands. Also, I was sometimes stuck on 2 mana, which is acceptable for a turn, but definitely not longer.

For now, I'll go with a more generous mana base to be able to mulligan more aggressively instead of looking for the right amount of mana. That might change though and I can certainly see 2 lands go for the Skulkers or more Void Snares.

Don't remove the Chasm Skulker, that card is a monster with that setup. Remove 2 Maritime Guard instead.

I think this deck and the idea behind it would be much better served by being Blue/White (gives Loyal Pegasus, Mentor, the 3/3 flier whose name I forget, and superior removal to replace the counters and bounce - meaning you do not need to hold back mana, etc) OR Blue/Green (gives even more unblockables, giant growth effects, Elder of Laurels and Beastmaster Ascencion!).

After trying out this deck w/ the changes I think that the original decklist is best with just a few changes.
-1 Time Warp
-1 Paragon of Gathering Mist
-2 Maritime Guard

+2 Quickling
+2 Void Snare

Try running it this way and see how it goes. I still think Chasm Skulker is staple because the draw power of this deck when it gets going is insane.

While you may be right, most of us posting in the mono-colored threads know that adding another color will probably help things out. Our goal here in the Mono threads is to try and make the best Mono-colored deck.

True. Also in my deck he mentioned, I specifically avoided going 2 colours as I wanted the deck to have a completely consistent mana base so I wouldn't lose any beats. The deck is all about attacking early and often, and stalling is often fatal.

Getting the wrong creatures for the mana would kill this build. You could of course make a 2 colour variant that had more survivability, but then it would have a different strategy and be a different deck.

Before i had all the cards unlocked i was running my deck with white mixed in, but like the others have mentioned consistancy is a problem. Our duel lands are slow and getting held up by missing a colour will ruin a chance to win as this deck doesnt have a terribly large window to win if your opponent has larger flyers. It costs us more tempo to play out evasive wienies, compared to goblins for example, who hae the ability to just spam the board to get dmg through, so my idea was to compensate by disrupting problem creatures so that i can still get through to win the race. With the flash faeries it isnt a problem holding counters/bounce mana up and they really are what make the deck work imo.

Dont quite think the power level is quite there yet for my idea though since cloudfin is just not reliable enough without the 0/4 and 1/3 creatures, and those cards are... So awful

Hopefully a couple of strong faeries get released, or even better living the dream with delver of secrets, but that might be too OP, lol

Lord of Denial
x24 Island

x4 Vapor Snag
x4 Negate
x4 Nullify
x4 Think Twice
x4 Voyage's End
x2 Chasm Skulker
x3 Guard Gomazoa
x3 Dissolve
x2 Talrand, Sky Summoner
x4 Inspiration
x2 Roil Elemental

A mono-blue deck I threw together last minute for a tournament. Just your standard 'counter everything that could even be considered a threat while drawing cards hand over fist to ensure you can keep up the countering thing'. Obviously the thing pretty much crumbles when up against fast aggro but hey it does pretty well against anything slower then it.

Sphinx-Bone Wand seems like it would make a great finisher in your deck Garren

I've been playing against a lot of solid mono-blue aggro-draw builds lately. I think I might work on something like that next.

Here is my list that I have been running to great success. It is consistent and gets around a lot of threats. Planar and anger are big hosers, and I may try and squeeze negate in here for that. How many and what to cut...ugh
4 x Cloudfin Raptor
4 x Triton Shorestalker
4 x Maritime Guard
3 x Quickling
4 x Pestermite
4 x Frost Lynx
2 x Chasm Skulker

4 x Vapor Snag
4 x Voyage's End
3 x Military Intelligence
2 x Hall of Triumph
2 x Bident of Thassa

20 x Island

I've seen some players building a mill deck, and I have a great suggestion for all of you:
Pyxis of Pandemonium - It is one of the best cards in my mono blue mill deck.
Since the mill is very slow, it is on average mills more than Tome Scour. you mill one card a turn, and the fact that it exiles is fantastic, considering the graveyard activity in this dotp, it might even exile kozilek. and the 7 mana ability is also great: use it after opponent declared attackers for his final strike. get some defenders that saves you from the strike. next turn you will probably have enough defenders for a great usage of doorkeeper for the win.
If you have hedron crab (or phxis exiled it), it will usually end things on the spot with the lands you'll get (consider using it on your turn when you have the crab on field).

good mill card, and great finisher.

I ran pyxis in my "mill" deck and you're right, it was probably my most effective mill outside of crabs. Unfortunately mill is still pretty bad.

I wonder how good could a monoblue control artifact/ramp deck could be with the new DLC.
Something like that :

4x Etherium Sculptor
4x Courier's Capsule
4x Voyage's End

3x Negate
3x Nullify

3x Gargoyle Sentinel
3x Darksteel Ingot
3x Dissolve

2x Archaeomancer
2x Talrand, Sky Summoner

1x Time Warp

2x Sharding Sphinx
2x Obelisk of Alara

1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

20xIsland
4xRadiant Fountain

Win conditions are Kozilek, Sphinx, Obelisk.

Here is a Mono Blue aggro decklist similar to some of the others posted in this thread.
23 Island
4xKraken Hatchling
4xCloudfin Raptor
4xTriton Shorestalker
3xVapor Snag
3xQuickling
3xMilitary Intelligence
3xNegate
3xNullify
2xChasm Skulker
2xFrost Lynx
4xPestermite
2xBident of Thassa

I feel like most of these are cards are uncontroversial.

Kraken Hatchling seems like an odd card to include in an aggro deck. But actually it has been playing very well. It is the number one most effective creature in the deck at triggering Cloudfin Raptor. The highest base stats among our other creatures is 2/2, which means that sometimes the Raptor hits a point where it struggles to Evolve further. The Hatchling fixes this problem. It recurs well with Quickling to buff the Raptor, attacks without fear to trigger a Military Intelligence, and works wonders in aggro matchups. I'm not saying it is an essential card, but for this build I haven't been disappointed with it.

Chasm Skulker combos well with your draw step and the 5 Curiosity effects we are running. People might be skeptical of its slow burner nature in an aggressive deck, but our Military Intelligence's and Bidents buff it up quickly. Think Twice is also good with the Skulker, but Think Twice doesn't seem a card for an aggressive list. Maybe I'm wrong, but we're really pushed for space as it is I feel.

Pestermite and Frost Lynx provide roughly the same role. They tap down your opponent's creatures so you can get in for essential damage and card draw. I find Pestermite better most of the time however, considering it has flying and flash. Frost Lynx is a card I've been consistently happy with but not enough to warrant the full playset.

A playset of Vapor Snag might be correct, but I'm juggling it with the counterspell numbers. In all the games I've played I've wanted to draw at least one counterspell. I started off running fewer Nullify's, but I quickly found that this deck needs some form of removal and that tapping and bouncing sometimes just didn't cut it. Negate is also very useful. It trades with removal, combat tricks, sweepers. They're both sitting at 3 copies currently. This is up for change. Dissolve is good but I often found that leaving three mana open happened less often than leaving two mana open.

Despite 23 Islands I still get mana flooded. This shouldn't really happen but I don't feel confident dipping into 22 lands.

I have played maybe 10 games with this list so far and I have only lost one - and if that I had drawn a Vapor Snag in that game, I would have won on the spot. I think it is really good. But it can only get better through testing. If anybody wants to try this out and suggest some improvements, I'd be honored.

Here's my version of this blue aggro deck...



I went with 3 Switcheroo to enable me to use the Kraken Hatchling's and Maritime Guard's as fodder to steal opponent's trouble creatures, and 3 Niblis of the Breath's to lock others down.

In my last game with this deck, I drew 15 more cards than my opponent did, and I'm loving it.

I'm running a build very similar to this. Only difference is Sphinx-Bond Wand instead of the Roil Elementals and a Kozilek in place of a Nullify. So far it's been successful. I'm almost done with a 10 games in a row series on it..

Just testing to see if this works, this deck gives me some of my better winning %'s and fun to play