Vendilion Clique

Flash
Flying
When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Ingenious Infiltrator

Ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Faerie Seer

Flying
When Faerie Seer enters the battlefield, scry 2.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Spellstutter Sprite

Flash
Flying
When Spellstutter Sprite enters the battlefield, counter target spell with mana value X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Fallen Shinobi

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{B} ({2}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Fallen Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top two cards of their library. Until end of turn, you may play those cards without paying their mana costs.

Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Hydroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's red.
• Destroy target permanent if it's red.

Mistbind Clique

Flash
Flying
Champion a Faerie (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Faerie you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)
When a Faerie is championed with Mistbind Clique, tap all lands target player controls.

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile target player's graveyard.
When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Faerie Fencing

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. That creature gets an additional -3/-3 until end of turn if you controlled a Faerie as you cast this spell.

Stern Scolding

Counter target creature spell with power or toughness 2 or less.

Secluded Glen

As Secluded Glen enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Faerie card from your hand. If you don't, Secluded Glen enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Creeping Tar Pit

Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{1}{U}{B}: Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Disrupting Shoal

You may exile a blue card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell if its mana value is X.

Swamp

Moon-Circuit Hacker

Ninjutsu {U} ({U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Moon-Circuit Hacker deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card unless Moon-Circuit Hacker entered the battlefield this turn.

Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Changeling Outcast can't block and can't be blocked.

Island

Mist-Syndicate Naga

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Mist-Syndicate Naga deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of Mist-Syndicate Naga.

Counterspell

Kaito Shizuki

At the beginning of your end step, if Kaito Shizuki entered the battlefield this turn, he phases out.
+1: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.
−2: Create a 1/1 blue Ninja creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a blue or black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Extract a Confession

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If evidence was collected, instead each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Go for the Throat

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards.
Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Troll of Khazad-dûm

Troll of Khazad-dûm can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Death's Shadow

Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.

Faeries

Ninjas

Tempo

Casual

UB Fae Ninjas

Thoughtseize price went down to $10 so I jumped on it. Maybe it will go down more but I kind of doubt it as it's still a strong card in all the formats it's legal in so I think it's a good buy. The 2 life loss is actually a little scary with 4 Bitterblossom and 3 Watery Grave so I could see going back to Inquisition in the future or maybe even running a 2-2 split. I've also decided that actually Fallen Shinobi is quite good and I would like to keep them in the deck (I've been having more success in playtesting recently and they're fun!)
Something that just occurred to me is possibly running Death's Shadow? Seems like a bit of a long shot but the deck does lose a lot of life so maybe.

Replacing Inquisition w/ Thoughtseize

This deck has gone through soooo many iterations and it's still probably one of my weaker decks tbh. Recent changes:
Cut 2x Mist Syndicate Naga for 2x Moon-Circuit Hacker for more card advantage and selection, also lowering the curve. Could see going back on this, idk.
Cut 1x Changeling Outcast for 1x Extract a Confession. Having an edict effect feels good, having an extra removal spell feels good. Running 4x Outcast feels kind of bad because sometimes they are just a 1 mana 1/1 so going down to 3 feels right (they are still very strong with Ingenious Infiltrator, help Spellstutter, and are a good ninjutsu enabler)
Recently had a version with 3x Brainstorm and 4 shuffle effects but since I moved my Brainstorms to Izzet Delver where I think they're a better fit, I replaced them with Preordains. Then I moved the Preordains to UW Ephemerate because I think Inquisition is worth playing. Inquisition makes us resilient against combo (reanimator mainly) and gives us valuable information and disruption against pretty much any deck.
Spell Pierce could be something else, it's definitely a flex slot.
Fallen Shinobi has been consistently ass in my playtests although maybe I'm just getting unlucky. Flipping lands feels really bad though. I am slightly considering replacing them but I'm not sure for what. Ideally I would just go up to 4x Mistbind Clique but they are too expensive right now. Mist Syndicate Naga is my other main contender.

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