magic the gathering, discard deck?

Question

is this a decent blue discard deck, or should i take/add other cards? ive been trying to make a deck that would be amazing in a standard tournament so heres the list:

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4x hedron crabs
4x wall of frost
4x guard gomazoas
1x jaces archivist
1x belltower sphinx
4x jaces erasure
4x tome scours
2x preordain2x visions of the beyond
1x distant memories
1x blue suns zenith
1x mind spring
1x mind unbound
1x mana leak
1x cancel
1x keening stone
1x traumatize
1x redirect
1x ponder
1x quest for the ancient secrets
1x halimar depths
20x basic land

and 1x jace mind sculptor

any tips or ideas would be appreciated :D

Answer 1

Recently our towns local judge came in and cleaned up an FNM with Mill, he used a lot of ponders and preordains and Jaces Erasures to keep card advantage and have answers while making you mill, then he'd use Jace, Memory Adept's + ability to draw a card and make the opponent mill 1, and then by him drawing each erasure would trigger and the guy would mill more, and then when jace finally ultimates, our judge would draw 20, the other player would draw 20, and then mill 20 for each erasure. Im pretty sure the rest of the spells were control magic, frost titans, and phantasmal images and stuff



Also, I was asked to run the tournament that night in his place, it was awesome

Answer 2

First of all, you mean mill.

Second, Jace the mind sculptor is banned in standard. I think you mean Jace, Memory Adept

Third, mill is kinda bad.

Fourth, playing singletons of cards is BAD.

Fifth, Innistrad is gonna LOVE having cards in graveyards. Which is BAD for you.



My advice?

Wait till Innistrad comes out before deciding on an archetype.

But mill could be good in Modern.

Answer 3

remove those 4 bloodstained mires. you realy dont choose them in any respect. A deck could round 20-25 land, about a million/3 of your deck must be lands. in case you retain on with that rule(that you do), then you shouldnteed those 4 bloodstained mires. you could save one or 2 i wager, yet i dont use mine in any respect.

Answer 4

Discard only happens from the hand. You have too many one-ofs for your deck to work.