I felt like revitalizing an old favorite of mine, so here's a semi-classic U/W control. The idea should be obvious: gain control, then play Morphling or Serra and ride to victory.
3 Morphling
3 Serra Angel
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Wrath of God
3 Aura of Silence
1 Balance
4 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Leak
4 Impulse
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Nevinyraal's Disk
1 Sol Ring
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Reflecting Pool
4 Tundra
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Coastal Tower
5 Island
5 Plains
Any ideas/suggestions?
Me thinks you need some more carddrawing. Stroke could be possible. You could cut one Serra for it.
One of the Wraths should be Mystical Tutor which still leaves you at 4 copies of Wrath (one being virtual) but grants you more flexability (Make sure to replace one of the Auras with Dismantelyng Blow or regular Disenchant to be able to fetch it via Mystical).
Mana Drain and Ancestral Recall are out I suppose?
What about a Outpost or two? Or is your environment Wasteland-infested?
This deck may actually want that Recall other decks dismiss.
Nevies Disk = Keg?
May want to add Moat.
I'd use Mana Drain/Ancestral, but they're in my Keeper. My environment runs tons of nonbasic hate, so no Outposts. I think Stroke would just be a "win more" card in this deck, too.
Recall is a good idea. I'll try it.
I wanted to add Moat, but I don't have many ways to fetch it and I only have one.
Stroke is "win more"? Okay, you don´t have Drains. But FoF is your only card drawer. And if you are playing against creatureless decks, you will be in trouble trying to get cardadvantage.
Do you think Tax/Rack would be effective here as a card drawing engine? Or maybe 4 Accumulated Knowledge? Ophidian?
I guess I'll put the Mana Drains + Stroke in, at least until I need them in another deck.
-4 Counterspell
-1 Serra Angel
+4 Mana Drain
+1 Stroke of Genius
Ophidian does not work, you can´t afford to protect it against creature removal and you can´t play it first turn either. Tax/Rack sound promising, in opposite to WW you can make use of the extra lands and deck thinning is even better in control than aggro. But it uses so many slots, what to cut? Two Impulse for Scrolls and What for 3 Taxes? Lands?
Playing AK would mean playing without Impulse, that is trading quality for quantity. Hm, this should be tested.
Maybe I can go down to eight counters since I'm gonna be drawing more with Tax/Rack?
-4 Coastal Tower
-3 Impulse
-3 Forbid
+4 Land Tax
+2 Scroll Rack
+2 Zuran Orb
+2 Plains
Think it's looking better now?
Oops, that's -3 Mana Leak
Sorry for reliving old posts, but I like U/W!!!
I'm pretty sure that you've lost interest on the deck, but...
I assume Serra to be the 'classic' card here, although Millstone is even more 'classic' but leave Serra there.
4 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Leak
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Wrath of God
2 Aura of Silence
1 Balance
1 Moat
1 Zuran Orb
4 Impulse
3 Whispers of the Muse (or something else that generates card advantage)
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Morphling
1 Serra Angel
2 Powder Keg
1 Sol Ring
4 Thawing Glaciers/3 Wasteland 1 Strip Mine/Mishra's Factory
4 Tundra
4 Adarkar Wastes
7 Island
5 Plains
By the way, to add Tax/Scroll, remove 2 Island, add 1 Plains, remove all 4 Impulses for 2 Scroll and 2 Land Tax and replace 1 Whispers with another one...
Here's an updated decklist.
3 Morphling
3 Serra Angel
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Wrath of God
3 Aura of Silence
1 Balance
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Land Tax
3 Scroll Rack
1 Impulse
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Nevinyraal's Disk
1 Zuran Orb
1 Sol Ring
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Reflecting Pool
4 Tundra
4 Adarkar Wastes
5 Island
7 Plains
Tax/Rack has been working pretty well, though it has some problems against Stompy. I usually manage to hold out with StP/Wrath long enough to play Morphling or Serra, however.