Need Help with this Deck

[LittleBuddy_15]

Hi all, me again. I was jsut wondering if anybody could give me some advice, or even a list of cards I should take out and a list of cards I should replace in this deck. Please just take a look, and offer any advice you can to make it better. I am going for a controle/Threshold Theme. Any card from any expansion I can get, so please just give me some advice, preferably low cost.

Land (19)

x9 Islands
x10 Plains

Creatures (26)

x1 Angelic Wall
x1 Beloved Chaplain
x1 Mystic Crusader
x1 pupeteer
x1 Giant Shark
x1 Millikin
x1 Mystic Penitent
x1 Nomad Decoy
x1 Deep Spawn
x2 Mystic Visionary
x2 Cephalid Looter
x2 Cephalid Broker
x2 Benevolent Bodyguard
x3 Mystic Zealot
x3 Blessed Orator
x3 hallowed healer

Other (16)
x2 Kirtar's Desire
x2 Syncopate
x2 Counter spell
x1 Shelter
x1 Embolden
x1 strength of Isolation
x2 Think Tank
x2 Prismatic Ward
x3 Second Thoughts
TOTAL-61

 

[Lotus Mox]

Your deck is pretty good, here are some suggestions to make it better:

19 lands are not enough for a 61 card deck, especially a control one, up your land count to 24 or 25.

cards which aren't all that good:
Deep Spawn + Giant Shark (your finishers should have evasion, Mystic Enforcer would be a great finisher if it weren't for color issues)

Second Thoughts (too expensive), if you can replace them with Swords to Plowshares.

Blessed Orator + Mystic Visionary and some other creatures, which don't control the play field enough.
Cephalid Looter might be replaced with Merfolk Looter which is pretty good. Generally you want less creatures and more ways to control the game.



You also need some card drawing, I'd say Fact or Fiction (helps with Threshold) and Deep Analysis are good choices for your deck, maybe a few Opts or Sleight of Hands too.
If you can find it a copy of Ancestral Recall I wouldn't hesitate to throw it in (j/k).


Here's how I would build such a deck (don't take this as given, I'm just a sucky casual player, but maybe you'll get some ideas )

2 Mystic Zealot
1 Mystic Crusader
1 Reborn Hero
2 Mahamoti Djinn
4 Merfolk Looter

4 Fact or Fiction
2 Deep Analysis
2 Sleight of Hand
4 AEther Burst
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Kirtar's Wrath
1 Ray of Distortion
4 Counterspell
3 Circular Logic

+24 land (try to find Coastal Towers or even Tundras or Adarkar Wastes, these lands help a lot, if you can make a good UWg mana base, you might want to consider Mystic Enforcer, it's one of the best cards for such a deck)

 

[Sammy Dead-O]

Definitely get some Counterspells in there. If you can get your hands on an Absorb or two, those are excellent in U/W control, as well. But, the Counterspells should be fairly easy to get ahold of, and you should also make sure to have a few other counters. If you can't find Mahamoti Djinn, Air Elemental works almost as well in these decks and is super easy to buy or trade for cheap. And, I prefer Repulse to Aether Burst. I'll really miss Repulse when it leaves Type 2, actually.

Some other cards that will probably be worth using if you can get them:
Impulse
Kjeldoran Outpost
Wrath of God
Rout
Mageta the Lion
Blinding Angel
Morphling
Control Magic
Treachery
pretty much any of the blue/white multicolored lands

 

[LittleBuddy_15]

Tanks everybody who replied, I took out and added some cards, pluse placed order's in for the sugessted cards I got. I appreciate all your help. Thanks to you all I might become a fairly decent Magic Player.