Gifts with Drain and Draw.....

[Everrid1234]

Hi,

I tried to build a flexible Gifts build....strong in the later game but also not weak in the first turns.
What di you think about it?

Its tactic is a few first turn counters to slow down the opponent and strong eot draw.
No Duress to let opponent waste its mana and fetch for island (Mana Leak) and no Timetwister because its a sorcery and gives opponent cards which makes my hard-built advantage annuled.
The more controlish build is to get around the problems that faster builds have (early Chalice or a Tormod's Crypt). I tried to make this build less reliant on Y. Will.

I appreciate any criticism. This is a test.

      
1   Tolarian Academy   
1   Library of Alexandria   (yes, its a slower deck)
1   Swamp      
4   Polluted Delta      
2   Volcanic Island      
2   Island      
2   Underground Sea
               
1   Vampiric Tutor

1   Recoup
1   Yawgmoth's Will
3   Gifts Ungiven   

1   Demonic Tutor
1   Mystical Tutor

3   Thirst for Knowledge   
2   Skeletal Scrying   
4       Brainstorm   
1   Ancestral Recall   
3   Merchant Scroll   
1   Time Walk   

1   Rebuild   
1   Chain of Vapor   

1   Mox Ruby   
1   Sol Ring   
1   Lotus Petal   
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Pearl   
1   Black Lotus   
1   Mana Crypt   
1   Mana Vault   
1   Mox Jet   

2   Mana Leak   
1   Misdirection   
4   Mana Drain   
4   Force of Will   


1   Tendrils of Agony   
1   Empty the Warrens   



         
// Sideboard      
      
2      Empty the Warrens   
2      Tormod's Crypt   
1      Mana Leak
2      Pyroclasm
1      Darksteel Colossus   
1      Echoing Truth   
2      Massacre   
1   Tinker   
2   Rebuild   
1   Chain of Vapor   

[LSD/Cruise]

The thing with Meandeck Gifts is that it is much more faster, and much better at getting Solutions to things like Chalice and Null Rod. Tormod's Crypt however is a problem, but it can easily be played around with a Chain of card quality via Gifts, Brainstorm, and Merchant Scroll. It's also good at being a more controllish deck as well. An example is how fast that deck can get Force of Will via Merchant Scroll, as well as a consistent 2nd turn Ancestral Recall.

[Zarathustra]

How is this deck better than MDG and Ritual Gifts?  I don't see how adding bad draw, in the form of Thirst for Knowledge makes the late game better.

-DShell

[Disburden]

How is this deck better than MDG and Ritual Gifts?  I don't see how adding bad draw, in the form of Thirst for Knowledge makes the late game better.

-DShell

Also, isn't Brassy Gifts "Gifts with Drain and more draw"? His deck runs Scrying, and runs Repeal for a constant bounce/ draw effect to build storm faster. I think it's more important to ask if this deck is better than his build of Gifts since it is doing the same game plan to an extent. Both builds run Library of Alexandria also for early card advantage. I still strongly believe that Gifts doesn't want TFK in its soul. It loses so much mana to that spell.