Crusader's other suggestion was to pair
The Sound of One Hand Clapping with
Bazaar of Wonders. Ouch. Let me be clear about this: O!U!C!H! That is harsh beyond belief. So, naturally, I love it. With this combo, you have the ability
: Counter target spell. (How? When your opponent plays a spell,
Bazaar of Wonders triggers. In response, find a
Bob from Accounting in play or in your graveyard and change its name to the name of that spell. When the Bazaar's ability resolves, it will counter the spell.) Um, that should win you the game. Sure,
Blinkmoth Nexus or other man-lands can still get you, and you need a way to deal with permanents already on the board. But seriously: Ouch.
I decided that this deck wanted card drawing.
Accumulated Knowledge is happy to see
I'm Running Out of Clever Ways to Say Blank in the graveyard.
Intuition is happy to see
Accumulated Knowledge, but you may often be better off fetching three
Bazaar of Wonders.
Urza's Hot Tub turns
You Know the Card I Mean into a
Diabolic Tutor. Let's be clear now—don't change its name to “Diabolic Tutor”; change its name (while it's in your hand) to the card you want to fetch, then discard it to the Hot Tub. You can get whatever card in your deck you want for 3 colorless mana.
“Rules” corner: Despite the “anytime” comment, you can't use Ooflotak's ability while another spell or ability is in the midst of resolving.
My favorite card-drawing trick, though, is to pair
Enough Already with
My First Tome. You need to be holding
It Has Malleable Flavor Text Too and any other card that has flavor text (such as an artifact land, which is why they're in the deck) while you have
My First Tome on the table. Change
Mr. Wigglesbottom's flavor text into exactly what the other card's flavor text is. (Yes, the flavor text ability works, but you might want to have a printout of the
Unhinged FAQTIWDAWCC handy when you spring this for the first time on somebody.) Then activate
My First Tome and read that flavor text. If your opponent guesses the blank card, reveal the one that really has that flavor text. If your opponent guesses the one that really has that flavor text, reveal the blank one. It's a 2-mana
Jayemdae Tome! Of course, this is probably vastly illegal and the powers that be (otherwise known as “Mark Rosewater”), having never noticed this loophole before, may swiftly close it. There might be some talk about how you're supposed to play fair, and rigorous techniques for using
My First Tome may be invented, including placing the card whose flavor text you read face down on the table so you can't pull a switcheroo. I don't know what he'll rule—so get away with this while you can!
My last trick is to combo
Nameless One (Not the Onslaught One) with
Grim Reminder. Once your opponent casts a spell—any spell—you can change the card's name in your library to the name of that spell, then play
Grim Reminder to find and reveal it. Goodbye, 6 life.
Undercover Brother is shuffled back into your library, and you can fish
Grim Reminder out of your graveyard to do this over and over. So the basic idea of this deck is that when your opponent casts a spell, you counter it, or make him lose 6 life, or both. And if he holds his spells,
Iron Maiden will get him. (By the way: There are
Iron Maidens in the deck.) And to clean up any pre-Bazaar messes, to supplement the
Iron Maidens, and to take advantage of your card drawing, the deck naturally has
Turbulent Dreams. What better way to use your post-Bazaar dead cards?
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