New to magic, RtR and Gatecrash only. Please review and give advice.

[beentothefuture]

http://deckstats.net/decks/1822/4886-control

This is my first attempt at a 3 color deck from RtR and Gatecrash. I don't have a ton of cards or a ton of money, but I do have all the cards listed and I can get a few more if they aren't too expensive.

This deck is made to be annoying. I detain/arrest/steal the other player's creatures and my NV specters play the opponent's exiled cards to give me card advantage. Alms beast, dutiful thrull, cloudfin raptor, priest of penance, and perilous shadow are all meant for defense. This is my first try, so advice would be very helpful and appreciated.

The cards listed as sideboard are not actually the intended sideboard cards. I just listed them to show you other cards that I thought might work well. You can tell me if you think any of them should make the main deck. (it was hard to take out Gift of Orzhova because they work so well with alms beast, so I would definitely consider adding them back.)

* I edited the deck and removed the few cipher spells I had and all of the unblockable creatures I had in. I decided to go with more defense and enchantments with the control instead of unblockable/cipher.*

[beentothefuture]

I didn't really mention it, but I have most of the commons and uncommons from RtR and Gatecrash. I have a few more rares and mythics that I didn't list as well, so if you think of one that would work let me know. I don't have any plainswalkers and I probably won't be buying any soon either.

[Crow, Rogue king]

alright, so i like what you have right now for the setup. i do have a few suggestions however. i would switch out 1 of your NV specter's for the ghost council, seeing as you would have to have the land to play the exiled cards still. And remember that each time ghost council returns to play his "opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life" ability activates, so its a quick life drain at that point. This also adds another suggestion. return at least 1 of your stolen identity's. those cards come in more useful then you could imagine. you never know when they might have a Biovisionary on the field. if you were to copy 4 of them you would win at the end step.

[beentothefuture]

ok, thanks for the advice! I'll try to get one of those back in. I could drop one of the Martial law or one of my enchant creature cards like OTL or Arrest.

[beentothefuture]

I was just thinking, a bounce deck would kill all of my enchantments. Do people bounce a lot? Maybe I should get some more removal instead of enchantments to control. Maybe some counterspells as well. I don't want to spread out too thin, though, trying to do everything. What do you think?

[Crow, Rogue king]

there usually are not that many bounce decks played any more. however some people have a couple bounce cards in the deck. counter spells and removal are big helps, i use a Dimir deck and have a few counterspells and they have saved me so many times. if you can manage to remove a few enchantments and maybe add in a spell rupture or psychic strike (maybe even 2) it could save your life. and im with you, i dont have a ton of cash. so the decks i build are usually from random boosters. just remember that the current weakness to your deck is indeed bouncing, and not to mention naturalizes. However there is one card that is an enchantment deck's nightmare

[KunseitheRatQueen]

I had an enchantment deck and I can tell you through experience you're gonna need more creatures. And I suggest a full playset of Etheral Armor