Help me build an unpowered but competative MUC.

[DeMarki]

The deck is unpowered, so is my metagame and I recently bought my Mana Drains from a collector in Greece(70$ each). I want to built a nice MUC deck and I would appreciate some suggestions.
My meta is mostly aggro rogue stuff, nothing like combo decks, perhaps  some arifact based decks.

Countermagic:
4 Force of Will
4 Force Spike
4 Mana Drain
4 Counterspell
2 Misdirection

Card Draw/Utilities:
4 Brainstorm
4 Ophidian
1 Fact or Fiction

Control/Creatures:
3 Back to Basics
3 Powder Keg
2 Morphling
2 Old Man of the Sea

Mana Base:
1 Sol Ring
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Flooded Strand
12 Island

Basically my questions would be:
1) Should I keep the Force Spikes since I cannot afford a 1st turn Mana Leak, plus Daze is for Fish decks that tap out on 1st turn. Spike even if terrible from mid-late game, is very efficient durig the first turns and its a reliable 1st turn counter.
2) Should I use Brainstorms or Impulses? I prefer Brainstorms cause they're faster and combined with fetchlands very good.
3) Perhaps if I was to run Impulses instead of Brainstorm, I would replace the Force Spikes with Chalice of the Void, but I'm not sure wether they are needed in an random unpowered enviroment and since I run spells like Old Man and Powder Kegs.
4) Is my Mana Base ok or should I add more blue mana sources?

Thank you for your help

[rvs]

Mono-U will never work without Moxen, and Force Spike is a shitty card in T1. You'd be better off turning it into Oath.

[Pselus]

I think you'd be better off without Force Spike in the deck...more of the "free" counters would be good...like Foil.
that 1 extra mana can actually be a big deal in the early game for most Type 1 decks but it's absolutely useless as a counter past turn 2 I'd say.  Foil is at least a hard counter like Force.  The problem with running Foil though is that you NEED alot of card advantage drawers, not just card selection drawers (Brainstorm, Impulse) and playable card advantage is hard to find in Vintage.

[Ephraim]

When you say "competitive" do you mean that you want the deck to win lots of games or that you want to be able to use it to reasonable effectiveness in your locate Type 1 scene? Looking at the list, I'm guessing that you mean the latter, but I have to ask, since this is in the casual forum (perhaps moved here by a moderator?)  In any case, I'm inclined to agree with Pselus about Force Spike.  I'd rather run Mana Leak for the increased staying power or Daze for the surprise factor.

[Jacob Orlove]

Pselus: don't bump old threads. Closed.