I've been trying for a while to find an appropriate general to wield the awesome might of Hive Mind, Shared Fate, Eye of the Storm, Cast Through Time, and everyone's new best friend Knowledge Pool as well as their red counterparts Confusion in the Ranks, Grand Melee, and Grip of Chaos. I wanted to get these effects consistently, but Red-Blue offered little in the way of finding them except drawing cards off of Niv-Mizzet. I toyed around with the idea of dipping into black just for tutors, but couldn't find any general in those colors that I liked. Then one day, inspiration struck: Richard Garfield Ph.D. makes it rather easy to 'find' these crazy enchantments. I brewed up a rough list, but soon found that gaining board advantage before turning every card in my hand into a counterspell wasn't much fun, and I knew combo kills would not be, so this deck is played without the ability to infinite combo, counter, or redirect (Controvert and Comandeer are never cast as themselves, but are in for unique ability and mana cost respectively). In addition to the enchantments, I thought it would be interesting to play my opponents cards using Mycosynth Lattice and Ornate Kanzashi etc. or to play the same card as multiple different ones (hence the bounce suite).
I'd love to hear any ideas for fun things to do with Richard, suggestions for how to power the deck down (even with me counterless, it is difficult for opponents to beat 2-3 Gauntlets of Power every game, and the ability to play lands as others is also quite a beating), or just suggestions to add or cut individual cards. Thanks for the help!
1 Richard Garfield Ph.D.
2 Sol Ring
3 Whispers of the Muse
4 Gilded Drake
5 Copy Artifact
6 Vedalken AEthermage
7 Twincast
8 Keeper of the Mind
9 Chronatog Totem
10 Worn Powerstone
11 Coalition Relic
12 Extrplanar Lens
13 Sculpting Steel
14 Neurok Replica
15 Crystal Shard
16 Time Elemental
17 Intuition
18 Copy Enchantment
19 Equilibrium
20 Capsize
21 Temporal Adept
22 Thada Adel, Acquisitioner
23 Vedalken Orrery
24 Etched Oracle
25 Muse Vessel
26 Erratic Portal
28 Controvert
29 Kaho, Minamo Historian
30 Rite of Replication
31 Mirrorworks
32 Ornate Kanzashi
33 Citanul Flute
34 Mind's Eye
35 Gauntlet of Power
36 Precursor Golem
37 Spin Into Myth
38 Heidar, Rimewind Master
39 Shared Fate
40 Mulldrifter
41 Mnemonic Wall
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42 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
43 Planar Portal
44 Mycosynth Lattice
45 Duplicant
46 Knowledge Pool
47 Reweave
48 Vedalken Dismisser
49 Hive Mind
50 Govern the Guildless
51 Mind's Desire
52 Uyo, the Silent Prophet
53 Opportunity
54 Consecrated Sphinx
55 Recurring Insight
57 Commandeer
58 Knowledge Exploitation
59 Quicksilver Gargantuan
60 Cast Through Time
61 Kederekt Leviathan
62 Urza's Tower
63 Urza's Power Plant
64 Urza's Mine
65 Cloudpost
66 Vesuva
67 Deserted Temple
68 Ancient Tomb
69 Temple of the False God
70 Terrain Generator
71 Remote Isle
72 Lonely Sandbar
73 Blasted Landscape
74 Scrying Sheets
75 Mouth of Ronom
76 Tolaria West
77 Mystifying Maze
78 Riptide Laboratory
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