Watercress

[Julian]

It occurred to my to add Academy Rectors to parfait  and replace my Zuran Orbs with claws of Gix. It worked, my silver bullets came out much faster. Naturally I added a few off-color enchantments that could only be searched out with rector. If I drew them I could easily Scroll Rack them away. Then, remembering that this was a Land Tax deck I threw in a few off color basic lands, so I could cast those enchantments if the whim took me. I added blue, just because most things are better with blue, and besides a first turn island is the most intimidating play in the world. So here is the deck:





       Lands
        1 Forest
        2 Island
        2 Plains
        2 Swamp
        1 Mana Vault
        1 Lotus Petal
        2 City of Brass
        4 Flooded Strand
        1 Library of Alexandria
        4 Tundra
        1 Sol Ring
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Sapphire
        1 Mox Diamond
        Kill
        1 Morphling
        Tutors        
        4 Academy Rector
        1 Enlightened Tutor
        2 Fabricate
       Blue goodness
       4 Mana Drain
       4 Force of Will
       1 Time Walk
       1 Ancestral Recall
        Parfait Engine
        4 Land Tax
        3 Claws of Gix
        3Scroll Rack
         Silver Bullers
         1 Moat
        1 Decree of Silence
        1 Pernicious Deed
        1 Aura of Silence
        1 Story Circle
        1 Masticore      
    Various Trades Bargains Deal and Agreements
    1 Yawgmoth's Bargain


    Sideboard
 1 Planar Void
2 Aura of Silence
1 Ivory Mask
4 Misdirection
1 Morphling
1 Masticore
4 Back to Basics
1 City of Solitude
       
How this deck works:
This deck is designed to do one of two things: Either crush your opponent with the magnificent weight of your card advantage or spit them with a silver bullet.  
This deck gets you the massive card advantage you so crave in one of two ways, you can either set up the parfait engine, or rector for a Yawgmoth’s Bargain, sometimes though that simple doesn’t work, sligh and argro will run circles around you tempo wise.
The silver bullets can be fetched quite easily, either with rector or enlightened tutor.

Mana Sources
Forest and Swamp: Can be fished out if you decide you really must have the pleasure of casting pernicious deed from your hand.
Flooded Strand: 4 More Tundra’s these will elude land destruction and shuffle after scroll rack
Plains and Island: To be fetched with land tax, these are also wasteland resistant.
Tundra: This deck is primarily white and Blue, so I figure these are a safe bet
Library of Alexandria: Land Tax will ensure you have enough cards in hand to fuel this baby
City of Brass: These help smooth the mana curve a bit.
Mana Vault, Sol Ring, Black Lotus, Mox Saphire, Mox Pearl, Mox Diamond: Some high quality mana acceleration
The Kill

Morphling: The best control finisher yet, darksteel reactor has nothing on it.
Tutors
Academy Rector: Will fetch most of your silver bullets and Yawgmoth’s bargain
Enlightend Tutor: Gives you the silver bullets and the missing part of the parfait engine  
Fabricate: The weak link here, but It’ll find masticore and the rest of the parfait engine. Parfait Engine
Land Tax: Creates the Parfait engine, thins the deck, fishes out the swamps and forest, and sometimes it will even get you out of a mana screw  
Scroll Rack: Creates the parfait combo and can banish useless cards to the darkest depth off your library.
Claws of Gix: This is the true power behind the deck. Sac lands for tax, sac rector for enchantments, sac anything for bargain. Sac moat if you feel you must have little old ladies gouge out the eyes of your opponent.
Blue Goodness
Force of Will: The good stuff.
Mana Drain: Now that’s some nice lookin’ tempo
Ancestral Recall: Because it has a pretty picture.
Time Walk: Yeah, I know, all it usually does is allow you to drop an extra land, but that’s still pretty nice.
Silver Bullets
Moat: Moat is just one of those cards that’s just plain spectacular, like Angel of Mercy or something. Anyway, it hoses all sorts of decks
 Decree of Silence: Originally this was hesitation, because I wanted to be able to rector for a counterspell. This works a bit better though. Against some aggro decks this is a better rector target than Yawgmoth’s Bargain
Pernicious Deed: This was one of those cards that is a bit hard to think up a reason, so I was looking up synonyms for Pernicious and found insidious, then I looked up insidious and found subtle (I used to pronounce the B) that made me laugh a bit. Yeah, this card is subtle, subtle like an elephant. It’s good against most everything, but be careful, it’s apt to wreck your parfait engine as well.
Aura of Silence: Just great utility.  
Story Circle: This is anti late game sligh, a lot of the time, I’m playing verse sligh and I get partial control via moat or deed. However, every now and then they will force through a burn spell, this stops that.
Masticore: This things just good. It’ll off those pesky Goblin Welders that seem to be turning up everywere of late. It’ll eat or core, or do something with that big stick that appears to be protruding from it’s mouth to all of Sligh Creatures, it can keep old school (as opposed to charbelcher, not this) Parfaits Pegasus tokens in check. And it’ll even be a chump if you ask nicely. The drawback? Land Tax and Bargain will handle that for you.
Various Trades Bargains Deal and Agreements
 Yawgmoth's Your number one rector target verse control, not the best of choices agaist aggro decks though.


The sideboard is admittedly a work in progress.
So, any thoughts? Suggestions?

[Dr. Sylvan]

The first things that popped into my head included: "Cut Fabricate" and "Play Duress."

4 Force of Will, 4 Mana Drain, 4 Misdirection: I count 13 blue mana sources, and you need no less than 16 to be Draining--Land Tax doesn't make up for this, because it is slow. You also have 13 blue spells, which is much less than the 19 recommended by most 4-FoW deckbuilders. In fact, unless you're gonna go all the way and turn this into one of the genuine multicolor control decks, blue doesn't belong here. You'd do better to solidify your manabase into few colors (maximum three) with less vulnerability to Wasteland. Even though you're very heavy blue right now, it's the color that least combines with the Tax/Rack engine, the Rectors, and the general sorcery-speed strategy of Parfait. Go nuts with green and black instead.

Oh, and welcome to TMD. :)

[Julian]

The first things that popped into my head included: "Cut Fabricate" and "Play Duress."



4 Force of Will, 4 Mana Drain, 4 Misdirection: I count 13 blue mana sources, and you need no less than 16 to be Draining--Land Tax doesn't make up for this, because it is slow. You also have 13 blue spells, which is much less than the 19 recommended by most 4-FoW deckbuilders. In fact, unless you're gonna go all the way and turn this into one of the genuine multicolor control decks, blue doesn't belong here. You'd do better to solidify your manabase into few colors (maximum three) with less vulnerability to Wasteland. Even though you're very heavy blue right now, it's the color that least combines with the Tax/Rack engine, the Rectors, and the general sorcery-speed strategy of Parfait. Go nuts with green and black instead.

Oh, and welcome to TMD.

Some interesting ideas, however it would require a drastic overhaul of the deck, right now it's desgined to have answers to everything your opponent does and then some, eventually winning on its own terms. While discard is arguably better than counter in the early game it can't prevent against a late game topdeck, so this would require a bit more creatures to win, in addition, stuff like moat would have to be pulled. Also, how exactly do you go crazy with green, I can understand black but green, the only crazy thing in green wrecks your parfait engine.

[Dr. Sylvan]

Some interesting ideas, however it would require a drastic overhaul of the deck, right now it's desgined to have answers to everything your opponent does and then some, eventually winning on its own terms.

Right there it sounds like you're trying for more of a Keeper strategy. And the combination of Keeper and Tax-Rack has in the past spawned the great ABM flame wars, so I don't want to go there. I just don't think Tax-Rack goes in a base-blue deck. As to green, your list didn't have Sylvan Library, Holistic Wisdom, Sterling Grove, or a number of other classic Enchantress goodies which might have fit into a blueless, enchantment-centered deck.

The reason that the deck doesn't make sense to me right now is the number of strategies it tries to pack into one list. It feels like a cross between Parfait, Keeper, and Academy Rectors (which really aren't outstanding in a control deck). What you really have to do is pick a direction and run with it. You can still be original, but I'd try to focus it more no matter what you decide to make the primary goal.

[Nefarias]

Dr. Sylvan was dead-on abotu the direction thing--This deck seems to try to do to much, and as a result does all of it poorly instead of doing one thing really well.

And what's up with the Morphling/Masticore? I know you said your reasoning for the Phling was it is the best control finisher, but that is hardly true anymore. Aside from the typical Decree of Justice, you might want to try going with an Enchantment for the win, as they are Rectorable, which seems to be key, whether it's something like the old Parfait standby Sacred Mesa, or something else crazy you can come with (if you're playing with green, Centaur Glade gives you more bang for your buck, and isn't cannibalistic).