Sure you can cut Stormbreath.. if you want to short yourself an OP win condition

Tribute being a 3-of is also an issue.. before there were 5 true kill spells.. reducing it to 3 makes me sad, as does being 2 for 1ed. Having the extra reach from Resounding Thunder is pretty cool though. What else did you cut to get all 4 in there? If you typed it and I missed it.. my bad.

It was a straight swap from Bolt of Keranos to Resounding Thunder and the two Flesh to Dust were replaced by the Stormbreath Dragon and the fourth Inspiration.

Once I get to testing this version online, I'm going to consider Traumatic Visions over the Jailbreakers because I'm down to six gates. The cycling gives me something else to do on the early turns and having access to hard counterspells could solve those Pelakka problems. Terra Stomper just laughs at me but it's not exactly a common card and I can still potentially Tribute it.

Jailbreaker's board stabilization probably matters more, but Visions lets me hit my drops more consistently and gives me access to permission, which I like. I currently have no answers to non-creature permanents.

Good call on the switches in my book hakeem! And it's also nice to hear I'm not the only one working visions into decks.

I think visions is going to be one of the better cards in the game, early mana fixing with a late game hard counter is great. If you can build the deck with mostly instants you should be golden

I think dissolve is the answer here. Most of your deck is instant speed. I don't think you need the full set of auger spree.

I only have ten blue sources (that's up from eight pre-expansion).

I could probably rework the mana a bit if I include Visions, though, and add a heavier focus on permission overall.

I think visions will make that possible, black can move to the splash colour.

Also, no banefire? Seems perfect here.

What about:

-4 Jailbreaker
-4 Spree

+4 Visions
+3 Dissolve
+1 Banefire

Plus necessary manabase changes.

That cuts black from the deck almost entirely, though. Could Temur control be a thing? Ground Assault is probably better than Tribute to Hunger and the only black card left is Rune-Scarred Demon at that point. In Temur I could play six Trilands with black mana (three Jund, three Grixis) and a basic Swamp and still have a realistic shot at casting the Demon, though. The tutor is too important to lose.

I really like the direction your new grixis is going Hakeem. Beginning to look as though it will shape into something I would like to replace my grixis build with.

I think it will probably end up as an Izzet base with a black splash for Demons and a green splash for Ground Assault where both splashes allow me to cycle Resounding Thunder. Traumatic Visions and Trilands makes the mana possible, I think.

Jailbreaker often ate my opponent's early removal, which allowed the real bombs to stick more often.

I loved Augur Spree in this deck.. it was always a welcome sight.

I'm interested to see how this all shakes out once multiplayer gets back online.

I would worry about adding ground assault with only 3 green mana sources. I would view cycling the one spell as a bonus.

I would obviously change the mana up a bit.

I'm sure the deck is still playable as is but it's going to be fun testing out new cards.

I am working on that at the moment. I will post a rough list shortly. Treasure find is a big gain for a control deck too.

Cool, you can be the main architect but I'll give you some testing support and feedback. I have Naya tokens to work on!

I've played some games with this deck having already played a few with a modified version of your original Unearthly Delights deck. I like the theme, cards and overall synergy which is important to me.

Here's some thoughts:

• The Hedron Crabs and the self mill effect didn't end up being as impactful as I would have hoped
• I wonder if something like Military Intelligence would help give the crab more utility?
• I don't feel I have many answers to early aggression so I'm forced into a damage race however chumps or even just a single wall can really hinder. There is Artful Dodge, I agree, except early on there always seemed a better use of the mana.
• All that unused enemy removal in the early game finds it's target with the ogre (sadly)
• I don't know if overall one would get more use out of Bloodflow Connoisseur compared to Jalira, Master Polymorphist?

How have you found it, Steve? Any updated deck?

I've been playing with Obelisk of Alara in another deck and it's pretty ridiculous for a control deck. Sphinx-Bone Wand and Kozilek were both amazing but pretty slow, so I've chopped them to include the two Obelisks. The curve is now much lower and having access to four of the five modes on Obelisk is amazing.

The Red mode is the inevitability that Bone Wand used to provide; it's a bit slower, but you don't need cards in hand to make it work. The blue mode is there for when you topdeck land and want to go a bit deeper for a spell. The black mode is amazing and really increases the value of Tribute to Hunger as well as extending the reach of all your other removal spells. The green mode will hardly ever be used, but there may be a random time when you can buff a Jailbreaker up to an 8/8 to deal with Pelakka Wurms and other huge nonsense so it's not completely irrelevant.

Here it is, I think it's final until the cardpool expands or if the metagame becomes hostile to it somehow.