Building a MUC from scratch. Suggestions needed.

[Joblin Velder]

Brainstorm is superior to Impusle because of the second mana requirement. In a format where the crucial turn is on average 1.5, the Impulse puts you behind on the race for virtual card advantage/card quality even though it digs one card deeper. I don't think the trade off one card deeper for one turn later is justifiable. I've tried playing Impulse for a while, but every time I draw it, I'd rather have drawn a brainstorm.

I don't think the avergae crucial turn is going to be the same in an unpowered meta. I've always loved impulse in monoblue. The deck really wants a better selection of cards and Impulse does that better than Brainstorm.

[DeMarki]

Do you thing that the 4 Force Spikes should be replaced by something else? The deck needs a decent 1st turn counterspell and since we can exclude the 1st turn Mana Leak scenario, something has to be done.
While we all know that Daze is for decks that like to tap out turn 1 (like Fish, NOT muc), Force Spike doesn't seem like a bad idea to me, since I never have to tap out on 1st turn and Spike can counter anything during that turn, perhaps even later in the earlygame. Later on in mid-lategame it gets pitched to FoW/Misdirection so it will never be a dead card.

How about the use of Stroke of Genius? In a deck with 4 Mana Drains you can easily grab some extra cards without tapping out.