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Way too many 1 of's, burn needs consistency to be viable.

Lol, I still play this deck unchanged.

{Blind obedience}a few counter spells. Maybe a few {detention spheres} or {oblivion rings}. 4 {Augur of bolas}, 3 {think twice} and 1 {forbidden alchemy}. All pretty cheap to start

I have a playset of {detention sphere}, also filling out the playset of {arrest}, with {inaction junction} ...

Getting a shooting buddy into magic, he bought an azorious intro deck and likes the play style and wants to improve the deck to make it competitive with some of my decks. As I don't know how to build control decks (no red! Wtf?!) what should I do to keep it budget and up the power level?

No one listened when I was raving about a very similar build when RtR first came out. Now my local meta follows my aggro strategies. Funny part is once I step away from aggro I don't have a clue.

No doubts she is really sexy...:D

Where do you get that? Ballin.

{curse of bloodletting} for gisela. I have attacked with her plus {goblin wardriver} to win more than one game from commander damage.

You don't draw if he damages a creature. The card specifically says player

What about making a wizard tribal deck and using {call of the kindered}? And putting {niv-mizzet dracogenious} on top of your deck with {brain storm}?

Creature or player for damage.
The collar gains you life either way, card draw against a player, and creature removal from deathtouch.

Read the first ability closely

Flying?

The sexy devil is one of my favorite cards ever.

What about {Cathedral of War}?

I have thought about it, don't know if it is fast enough for modern.

I would go -2 Keyrunes -2 Desocration Demon in favor of a playset of {Stromkirk Nobles} to make it faster. You should consider using {Thundermaw Hellkite} as your bomb, considering it has haste and as long as it isn't countered, the 5 damage is getting there and it can take care of those pesky 1/1 Spirit Tokens. A large part of your game is wanting to get the damage in before thragtusk, right? Then you need to be fast. And I think that {Crimson Muckwader} would be good to maintain board position. It can get past board-wipes and removal spells, so it might be worth checking out. The things I would consider taking out are the spells that don't do any damage. Removal like Dreadbore is nice, but if you're playing with burn spells like
Turn 1: Stromkirk Noble
Turn 2: {Pillar of Flame} their 1-drop and Play Vexing Devil, you may have just done 5 damage on your second turn.
Turn 3: Another one-drop and a searing spear on their guy, or two one-drops and other pillar of flame, or one two-drop and a one-drop (this is where lightning mauler could come in handy) so you could potentially be swinging: A Stromkirk Noble with 1 counter, A Vexing Devil, A Lightning Mauler, and Rakdos Cackler on turn 3.

Anyway, there's my $0.02. I hope this helps! -Des

That is the type of advice I am looking for!

Seriously? My burn deck is a four turn clock that has only seen turn five once... Sure don't take my advice...

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If you read it closely you'll see I said "skip your next upkeep" on the first ability to prevent that.

The upkeep isn't the same as the untap step.

Or just add "time manipulator does not Untap on your next Untap step." to the end of the first ability.