You have me on Capsize and Time Walk. Capsize goes in for a Merchant Scroll, and I don't know where Time Walk fits in. I don't think you need 4 Walks though- two is probably enough to go infinite, wouldn't you think?
The problem is that you don't want Stroke until you're ready to kill, so I just run the one and some Merchant Scrolls instead. The problem that I have with the Stroke/MoM engine is that it doesn't help you at all before the combo. Why bother then?
Don't you think that 28 mana artifacts is overkill? I got that feeling when I tried it with the full complement of LoMoxen- too many hands with just mana- so I cut the Rings becuase Moxen are easier to Hurk. I'm very convinced though that you want Windfall and the Recalls- they're so powerful it's sick. Windfall is needed as counter bait if you fizzle on your first try.
The question is how we fit in Time Walk while still having 8 draw-seven cards to get around control decks. If we can do that while still going off consistently on turn one, we're in good shape.
By Deranged Parrot (Parrot) on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 02:16 pm: OK, I just built this, and it's just about what I want.
4 LoMoxen, Academy, Force, Misdirect
4 Ancestral, Twister, Windfall
3 Merchant Scroll, Mind over Matter
2 Time Walk
1 Frantic Search, Hurkyl's Recall, Rescind, Stroke of Genius
This is basically almost perfect. 2 Time Walk is enough to have infinite turns. The single Hurk saves you in wierd situations where you run out of mana and can't find an Academy, and the single Frantic saves you when you run out of mana and can't find a MoM. I'd like to go down to only two Mind over Matters, but it seems risky. It takes this version forever to go off, but it works a lot better than the above version I listed.
By Jelal (Jelal) on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 03:07 pm: Time Walk: You're probably right, if Time Walk is needed at all, 2 are probably enough.
Stroke: I'm not even really considering going to less than 4. They're NOT just for the kill, they're amazing with all the fast mana in the deck. _Most_ of the time I Stroke it's on myself.
Merchant Scroll: I'm not convinced that it's more worthwhile than anything else I'm using.
28 mana artifacts: If you get a Stroke/Twister in your opening hand with lots of mana artifacts, its fine if your opponent doesn't have more pitch counters (and misdirections) than you (and ways to cast them). This happens too often though in a format like this, so I think I'll cut 2-4 off-color Moxen, _not_ Sol Ring. I don't play Hurkyl's Recall, so Sol Ring is just better (and I'd probably play Sol Ring over the off-color Moxen even if I played one).
Windfall: I thought about this, but I'd probably play Wheel instead. I think I'll drop 4 Jets/Pearls/Emeralds (not for of each 
) for 4 Whells.
Frantic Searh/Hurkyl's Recall: I really don't think these are needed.
Rescind/Capsize: I prefer Capsize, as it can be sick in this deck. On the other hand, there probably won't be more than one permanent you need to bounce... I'll consider it.
By T00Lb0y14 on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 05:09 pm: would 4 Time Spiral be a good choice?
By windfall on Monday, May 28, 2001 - 09:27 pm: I did not mean without restrictions, I meant what it looked like in type 1 before academy was restricted.