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Grand architect ?
It avoids all the expensive cards from the WWR deck... it obviously doesn't have Combo in there without the important parts so it is actually more like mid range Myr Aggro with a Sting.
There are some deck idea's I have been playing around this core... Semblance avil, hellkite igniter, Steel hellkite Hover myr
as for your deck,
one thing I think you are overlooking is just how important Ancient Grudge, natrualise and Beast within are. nothing plauges me more than Wurmcoil engine, Ancient Grudge takes care of that for me... naturalise is the bane of white decks, beast within for planeswalkers.
hmm also don't think the spellskite is necessary... I am aware it has some pretty neat interactions (kessig stealing anyone!) but Livewire Lash is probably better in this type of deck.
Phyrexain Cursader is immune to almost all removal... I am pretty sure you can't spellskite Go for the throat since it isn't a valid target.
and SKittles regens
If you are worried about Oblivion Ring then it wouldn't be hard to side board Naturalize for white match ups.
Chandra's Pheonix and Delver of secrets are also great carriers for it.
I have came up with a few idea's.
Instead of simply having no perminates and running control.... it would also work if you just killed all your perminates with something like Culling dias just before you play it.
however with Knowleadge pool you want all instants so you can just take the things people want to play whenever you want them... then get the stuff you do want later.
The best way to ramp would have to be sphere of suns... since you just finish it off before you play scramableverse. If you had some way to repeatedly untap and retap it to get a Infernal Plunge effect
There is always the red insta ramp,Infernal plunge+geosurge
I still think the best place for it is in the Zedruu the greathearted EDH deck.
but this is way out of budget it costs $140ish dollars.
I build decks for under $30.
on the front page.
I am concerned you have a few too many big creatures you will be drawing them all the time with no Grand Architect to play them.
Treasure mage to 4.
Phantasmal dragon and Myr superion to 2 each
1 Steel hellkite you can put the other in the side board against heavy artifact destruction although I use Buried Ruin to recur mine.
3-4 Negate
I like Gitaxian Probe
Delver of secrets is used in competitive illusions decks and it is cheap card... if you up your instants and soruceries and/or add ponder
Naturalize
Intangible Virtue
Honor of the Pure
Shrine of loyal legions
Red Burn/Sweepers
galvanic blast, gut shot, Slagstorm etc.
Midnight Haunting
Beast within
Elspeth Tirel
Easy answers you just don't have any way to draw into them like a control deck.
One of the reasons the red version won the worlds was because it had some burn and control elements to it to protect itself that and its big weakness U/B is in a bad way with this agro meta, only solar flare with Day of judgment or Grixis with Slagstom (and a huge amount of spot removal) can really handle the aggro... I guess there is always Ratchet Bomb
spellskite argh! I hate that thing stealing my creature pumps!
Add Time Reversal
honestly it is a great card in Commander but I don't think it will be anything more than a casual fun times card playing standard.
my Jor Kadeen is running a more Tempered steel type deck rather than mono red base.
Memnite, Siginal Pest etc...
He is basically my "hero" since I don't have the money for them.
I don't think you have enough White spells to play Loyal Legions volt charge can only do so much.
ummm yeah no Galvanic Blast I would of thought that would be mandatory
It acts as another Grand Architect I play it they kill GA I can still play my 6 drops with the double up on the mana. Stupid things happen if you prototype portal it. which you might want to replace one of the caged suns with it. Risky but extremely fun card.
but you don't need two.
I agree also that Negate or Turn aside will be a better bet than Mask of avacyn I like having 6 to 8 counter spells so you are likely to have one turn three.
I tried Ponder and didn't really like it since you have search in treasure mage you don't need dig yeah ok you want your lords but in this deck you have 8 to choose from. I prefer Gitaxain Probe knowing when you can play your lords safely can be very important.
if he as some lords down they are out of dismember range (turn Steel hellkite blue in response to it) they will use it on the lords first I suspect.
Infinite mana + devil's play which is a combo but I get myself board wiped if I get anywhere near infinite mana.
Myr Battlesphere is amazing you are dealing straight burn damage to them by tapping myr's, I have a lot of protection for it and if they kill it and you recur it with Myr Resevior and get another 4 Myr's
Myr Superion is scary since you can almost always drop it early and play aggro. Myr Galvaniser pumps it up
you have a reasonable amount of removal spells to be able to hold your opponent back long enough to draw Kessig wolf run or your win con's.
The deck runs off synergy of having a lot of Myr's, having a lot of artifacts and having a lot of mana and plays cards that support that.
I simply don't have the speed an consistency of the competitive Wolf run decks so I have gone for having more ways to win (the worlds deck did however gave himself lots of ways to win, lol 16 damage with galvanic blast)
I don't really think that overrun fits I would have to play a more Myr swam strategy, more Myr production cards that feels like a Green/white or G/W/R version of the deck which I think has the potential to work as well you should try it.
each of us has a different favourite standard so we just play whatever our favourite was.
You aren't really thinking enough outside the box enough.
she can ping, turn things into vampires, take control of vampires is a flier that grows.
if she wasn't forced into red black she would be in a lot more decks.