Shadow of Doubt can be played with a CC of

BB
UU
BU.

He's just paying BB.

Necro always seemed like an auto include, but I hated it every time it came out. It just doesn't seem to fit well in the deck.

Das Boot: How have you fared w/o running vials? Are you in a metagame where you don't see much control? Even with discard, it seems like you need vial for tempo and to get through decks with hordes of countermagic.

I've been running something that looks like this:
     
        2 Polluted Delta
        2 Bloodstained Mire
        5 Swamp
        3 Snow-Covered Swamp
        1 Bayou
        1 Strip Mine
        3 Wasteland
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Mox Jet
        4 Dark Ritual
        4 Duress
        2 Unmask
        1 Contagion
        3 Æther Vial
        3 Chalice of the Void
        2 Pithing Needle
        1 Demonic Tutor
        1 Vampiric Tutor
        3 Tainted Pact
        4 Mesmeric Fiend
        4 Withered Wretch
        3 Skittering Skirge
        3 Phyrexian Negator
        3 Umezawa's Jitte
SB:  3 Choke
SB:  1 Naturalize
SB:  1 Oxidize
SB:  1 Pithing Needle
SB:  3 Chains of Mephistopheles
SB:  3 Diabolic Edict
SB:  3 Bayou

Tainted Pact: I've found Tainted Pact to be completely superior to Night's Whisper. The biggest problem with pact was usually that you end up doubling up on swamps and fizzling out. That's not a problem with the manabase in this deck, and that's also why the Snow Covered Swamps are in there.

Unmask: It's really crucial to get 1st turn disruption off, so I experimented with running Unmask. It seems to have payed off so far, and you can pitch dead cards from Chalice to it if you need to. It's really nice to be able to rip their welder or monkey on turn 1, too.

Pithing Needle: This card started off in the sideboard and made its way into the main quickly. This card puts you in the running against Stax and Slaver, and just owns Charbelcher.

Contagion: Great against Welders, Mox Monkeys, and Fish and can often be fed by dead cards from Chalice.

The biggest problem I've had with the deck is that Mox Monkey + Welder owns you. They can trash your vials and Jitte's and completely wreck your tempo.

Hey Saltz, welcome back! I just got back into the game too, and have slowly been absorbing all the new cards and decks.

Maindeck Balance is a good answer to fast beats. I run a build with Mystical Tutor and Balance (for my creature heavy metagame) that has done pretty well. It seems that if you're running U/W Landstill you should at least have the best white card ever printed in the sideboard, if not maindecked.

Good to see that a few old BD faces are still around here. I just dusted off my magic collection, got some friends together, and ran a casual tourney. Everyone had to draw a color out a hat and play a highlander deck of that color (artifacts, gold, and split cards allowed). I, of course, picked green, which is my least favorite (and most traded away) color. Anyway, I picked through what I had and realized that I didn't have the cards to make a decent stompy deck in highlander- and then I remembered that I hated playing stompy decks anyway  :lol: This is what I came up with up.  Between the 2 Cores, the Battlemage, the Triskelion, the Icy, and all the removal spells, I figured I had enough removal. It worked pretty well, though I ended up losing to mana flood at the end. Opinions?

Mana

Gaea's Cradle
Strip Mine
Yavimaya Hollow
Black Lotus (Friendly game or not, this is still Type 1  )
Mox Emerald
Mox Ruby
Sol Ring
Land Grant
Taiga
Wooded Foothills
City of Brass
Gemstone Mine
Mountain
Forest x6

Spells

Survival of the Fittest
Sylvan Library
Nostalgic Dreams
Icy Manipulator
Naturalize
Creeping Mold
Skullclamp
Rancor
Giant Growth
Briar Shield
Seal of Strength
Berserk
Stormbind
Aeolipile
Assault/Battery
Hurricane
Smokestack

Creatures

Llanowar Elves
Fyndhorn Elves
Birds
Elvish Lyrist
Tinder Wall
Skyshroud Ridgeback (Goes nicely with Skullclamp)
Elvish Archers
Albino Troll
Utopia Tree
Multani's Acolyte
Killer Bees
Jolrael's Centaur
Yavimaya Elder (Rocks with Skullclamp)
Uktabi Orangutan
Thornscape Battlemage
Masticore
Hunted Wumpus
Blastoderm
Razormane Masticore
Deranged Hermit
Shivan Wurm
Weatherseed Treefolk
Triskelion
Thorn Elemental

SB: (This really sucked in mono green)
Avoid Fate (Heh)
Dense Foliage
Hull Breach
Desert Twister
Pit Trap
Tranquil Grove
Storm Front
Elephant Grass
Lifeforce
Compost
Whirling Dervish
Choke
Tsunami
River Boa
Verdant Force