Izzet Scry Machine (budget (so no Thassa))

[Steerpike]

Izzet Scry Machine 60 cards, 0 sideboard 12 {Island} 12 {Mountain} 24 lands 3 {Blistercoil Weird} 2 {Spellheart Chimera} 3 {Nivix Cyclops} 3 {Guttersnipe} 2 {Prognostic Sphinx} 4 {Flamespeaker Adept} 17 creatures 2 {Portent of Betrayal} 3 {Magma Jet} 4 {Titan's Strength} 4 {Aqueous Form} 4 {Voyage's End} 2 {Bident of Thassa} 19 other spells Sideboard

[Steerpike]

No sideboard yet, but whatever

[Mlerner12]

How competitive Izzet? Loooooo I couldn't resist. Izzet (the pun) as bad as I think it is?

And on the deck, maybe 3 Thassa?

[Steerpike]

Yeah I forgot to mention the sort of budgeted nature of the deck lol (edited).
I would absolutely incorporate Thassa otherwise.

And it's fairly good in my play group (whatever consolation that is). However I also went 1-2 at the prerelease with the same colors :/

(Appreciate the pun, btw)

[Steerpike]

Had to give {R}{U} a try. Love those colors

[DylanW18]

Perhaps a few {Ætherling}? He's not terribly expensive

[Steerpike]

Yeah i was thinking that. Is he considered a good enough bomb to belong in any deck with blue? I'm not all that... advanced as far as deck building

[DylanW18]

He literally does everything ever and bosses. Unkillable 8/1 unblockable? Seems good.

[Steerpike]

Fair enough

[DylanW18]

He may be 6 CMC, but if he resolves, you win

[Steerpike]

Is it ok that i have no counterspells?

[DylanW18]

I run counter spells only in SB with my Grixis control... But it really depends on your meta

[Pirate John]

Is it ok that i have no counterspells?

Yea. Counter spells don't work well with cyclops. It works with your chimera, but that's it. The two cards don't really go well together like you'd expect.

[Steerpike]

And I was kind of debating having {Nivmagus Elemental} instead of blistercoil. Should that be a sideboard card for control mirror type stuff?

[Pirate John]

I haven't seen anyone use either of those cards really well. I brewed an interesting counter-growth deck pre-rotation, but that's it.

They aren't really popular in the meta