Yeah it's a fine mid-range card, but this is my highest mana-ramping deck, even outpacing that Enchantment Power deck. So I thought I'd swing for the fences in terms of power and disregarding cost. It's not uncommon for me to get out Triskelion, Contagion, Lux Cannon, or a golem on turn 3. And it typically goes downhill from there for my opponent.
If that's what you're going for, why not do 12-Post instead of just 8-Post? I'm not asking that one from experience, just from the general impressions I've gotten seeing 12-Post played by other people. You didn't mention anything about it before, but you decided it wasn't worth it, well, you're the only one who's tested this exact deck, so you'd know. I'm bringing it up because I think you may not have actually seen 12-Post in action yourself, and if that's the case you should check it out.
I feel bad because it's like I'm snubbing a lot of your advice, but I can tell you like to play with a lot more control than I do.
Heh, I don't feel snubbed at all, I was just clarifying on that card because you said you'd rather have a fourth Triskelion, and it's not a card that fills the same role. I suspect that with the way you've built this deck, Triskelion is just too good not to run four of, but that doesn't mean every other possible card has to be considered to be competing with Triskelion specifically for slots.
I'd bet you have a decent amount of control in almost all of your decks.
Well, the project that I'm most invested in right now is basically the last decklist in
my new article (haha, I totally just plugged my articles on the message boards). Technically the sideboard is one card off because the inventor of the deck modified the sideboard since I put the deck together, and I haven't bothered to swamp sleeves to make that Tropical Island a Chain of Vapor, but that's trivial. So yeah, I've got four copies of Cabal Therapy and I can fetch Thoughtseize with Burning Wish if I absolutely have to. Does that count as a decent amount of control?
Discard is fine for me, but I don't run much removal as I mentioned earlier, and I don't think I've ever put any countermagic in any of my decks (though I plan to change that soon). In the words of The Hulk, "I just wanna smash!"
For your opponents' sake, I hope you don't have a playset of Show and Tell.