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Gadwick Combo

[Hiatsa]

Months have gone by and 20+ cards have been reslotted.

I did away with a lot of the top end "don't lose the game / stall / stax" pieces. They weren't fun at my table and I got a lot of targeted hate for them. Those cards have been replaced with draw, tutors, and inexpensive ramp. Due to graveyard recursion being a common deck enabler, I gave up on most recursion (except effects stapled to lands) because of graveyard hate.

The gameplan of the deck has remained mostly intact: draw, play artifact ramp, combo out w/ Thassa's Oracle / Jace, WoM. Counterspell / stifle effects are meant the control elements meant to not lose the game / secure the win (which can happen as early as turn 3 on a golden draw).

Because of how many tutors are in the deck, Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal was added to the deck. I can consistently fetch them and, when paired with a commander that has Stroke of Genius attached to him, is GG.

Essentially, this is Big Mana Blue that runs more early game disruption and harder 'win the game' cards when having access to 7+ mana.

Revision 3

Added/removed cards:
-1 Archaeomancer
-1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
-1 Burnished Hart
-1 Consecrated Sphinx
-1 Drift of Phantasms
-1 Ethereal Usher
-1 Evacuation
-1 Frantic Search
-1 Gilded Lotus
-1 Library of Leng
-1 Meishin, the Mind Cage
-1 Opt
-1 Prosperity
-1 Psychosis Crawler
-1 Snap
-1 Stroke of Genius
-1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
-1 Temple of the False God
-1 Vedalken Aethermage
-1 Verity Circle
-1 Visions of Beyond
+1 Academy Ruins
+1 Aether Spellbomb
+1 Ancient Tomb
+1 Basalt Monolith
+1 Buried Ruin
+1 Coldsteel Heart
+1 Counterbalance
+1 Delay
+1 Dramatic Reversal
+1 Etherium Sculptor
+1 Expropriate
+1 Finale of Revelation
+1 Gitaxian Probe
+1 Isochron Scepter
+1 Long-Term Plans
+1 Mana Vault
+1 Mental Misstep
+1 Mystic Forge
+1 Pongify
+1 Preordain
+1 Riptide Laboratory
+1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
+1 Silver Myr
+1 Star Compass
+1 Thieving Skydiver
+1 Trickbind
+1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
+1 Witching Well
-1 (SB) Back to Basics
-1 (SB) Disallow
-1 (SB) Jushi Apprentice // Tomoya the Revealer
-1 (SB) Psychic Corrosion
-1 (SB) The Magic Mirror
-1 (SB) Willbreaker

Changed amounts:
-6 Island
+1 (Main) -1 (SB) Tale's End
-1 (Main) +1 (SB) Time Warp
-1 (Main) +1 (SB) Venser, Shaper Savant