Stern Scolding

Counter target creature spell with power or toughness 2 or less.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Counterspell

Mishra's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice Mishra's Bauble: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Unholy Heat

Unholy Heat deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Delirium — Unholy Heat deals 6 damage instead if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Soporific Springs

As Soporific Springs enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs

Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Thundering Falls enters tapped.
When Thundering Falls enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Invert Polarity

Choose target spell, then flip a coin. If you win the flip, gain control of that spell and you may choose new targets for it. If you lose the flip, counter that spell.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Dreadhorde Arcanist

Trample
Whenever Dreadhorde Arcanist attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to Dreadhorde Arcanist's power from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Dragon's Rage Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, Dragon's Rage Channeler gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.

Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Surgical Extraction

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Eddymurk Crab

Flash
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Eddymurk Crab enters tapped if it's not your turn.
When Eddymurk Crab enters, tap up to two target creatures.

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Island

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Spirebluff Canal

Spirebluff Canal enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Delver of Secrets

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Insectile Aberration

Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration

Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards.
Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Obsidian Charmaw

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each land your opponents control that could produce {C}.
Flying
When Obsidian Charmaw enters, destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls.

Mystical Dispute

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Whenever Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card.
Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Unlicensed Hearse

{T}: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard.
Unlicensed Hearse's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards exiled with it.
Crew 2

Tolarian Terror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Tempo

Izzet Tempo

Grixis Tempo w/ Frog

4 brainstorm

Ragaban

Sprite Dragon has been doing well in playtesting but I kind of love Merfolk Trickster in this deck so I'm gonna give 'em a whirl! I could see going back to Sprite Dragon at some point OR potentially going for a 2 terror/2 sprite dragon split.

Merfolk Trickster!

-3 Daze | +2 Sprite Dragon | +1 Scalding Viper           
I'm starting to feel that this deck does really well when you have a threat and also that Daze is not that good in a format without unfair combo decks. I haven't actually put this version of the deck together yet (as I don't own the cards yet lol) but this is the direction I'm thinking about going in. Alternatively, I could play Spell Pierce or Stern Scolding instead of more threats but those cards always feel so clunky to me.

Daze sucks???

Replaced an Island with a Thundering Falls. Surveil lands are fun to use and are powerful!
I didn't realize I bought a foil one on accident lol, whoops. I don't necessarily mind having a foil 1-of though, foils annoy me more when only 1 copy is foil out of 4.

Adding Thundering Falls

Still not quite sure how good Daze is, I could see replacing it with different counterspells or even something like thought scour to be more aggressive and less interactive. The Brainstorms feel really good with 6 shuffle effects. I could see going down to 2 or 3 Tolarian Terror for Sprite Dragon instead, Scalding Viper is also an interesting budget version of Brazen Borrower that I could see myself running as a 1-of.

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