This is my take on Death & Taxes, which is just a control deck at its core. The deck uses lethal creatures and effects like grapple shot & whirling blades to effectively trade for your opponents creatures. It then also plays maddening bells & sinkhole as a way to slow down your opponents gameplan by hindering their mana/threshold. The true wincon of the deck is to kill your opponent with nimbus jinn and/or /lightning bolts. The deck can also win by removing all the creatures from your opponents deck with grim reaper.
CHANGELOG
Dome was good against aggro but having more control with floodplain seemed better in most matchups. Without men of leng & court jester, kythera mechanism feels much worse so cut it to make room for stormy seas & Atlantean fate
Spellbook
+1 Riptide
+2 Stormy Seas
+1 Atlantean Fate
-1 Kythera Mechanism
-1 Shrink
-2 Raise Dead
Atlas
+1 Floodplain
-1 Dome of Osiros
Court Jester not doing enough so got cut, wanted to try riptide in place of blink to be able to move enemies as well as allies. Drowns were kinda dead in hand sometimes due to the body of water based on matchup so added floodplains
Spellbook
+1 Porcupine Pufferfish
+1 Brodingnag Bullfrog
+1 Grapple Shot
+1 Whirling Blades
+1 Shrink
+3 Riptide
-2 Apprentice Wizard
-2 Court Jester
-4 Blink
Atlas
+2 Floodplain
-2 Summer River
Men of Leng and Fade seemed good in theory but ended up being dead in hand most of the time. Wanted more ways to move avatar away or move nimbus/grim closer so added in blinks.
Spellbook
+4 Apprentice Wizard
+2 Telekinesis
+4 Blink
-3 Fade
-4 Men of Leng
-2 Summoning Sphere
-1 Highland Princess
Atlas
-No Changes
Leaning heavier into the water control and deck wasn't aggressive enough for devil's egg so switched to angel's eggs
Spellbook
+2 Angel's Egg
+2 Brobdingnag Bullfrog
+4 Drown
-4 Apprentice Wizard
-2 Sneak Thief
-2 Devil's Eggs
Atlas
+2 Summer River
+3 Undertow
-2 Iceberg
-2 Imperial Road
-1 Mirror Realm
Big change was cutting fire, just felt clunky and wasn't worth splashing the 3rd element
+2 Summoning Sphere
+2 Devils Egg
+3 Porcupine Pufferfish
+2 Nimbus Jinn
-3 Swiven Scout
-1 Shrink
-2 Infiltrate