How can I improve my blue/red Counter/Burn deck for the card game Magic: The Gathering?

Question

>17< Lands

3 Cloudpost

7 Mountain

7 Island

>14< Counter/Return Cards

1 Disrupt

2 Capsize

1 Distorting Wake

1 Annul

1 Rethink

3 Thoughtbind

3 Cancel

1 Mana Leak

1 Jolt

>12< Burn Cards

2 Volcanic Hammer

1 Form of the Dragon

4 Shock

2 Arc Blade

2 Blaze

1 Rod of Ruin

>11< Creatures

1 Spiketail Hatchling

2 Archivist

1 Hoverguard Sweepers

1 Tephraderm

1 Akroma, Angel of Fury

1 Avatar of Fury

4 Daring Apprentice

>5< Artifacts

1 Sensei's Diving Top

1 Belbe's Armor

1 Ur-Golem's Eye

2 Mana Cylix

>1< Other

1 Peer Through Depths

Focus: the deck counters the biggens and burns off the weaklings, till I get to play one of my flyers and finishing them. I am planning on putting in Counterspells, Force of Wills, (maybe more Mana Leaks), Counterbores, Mirari, and scrapping most of the countering creatures. The deck I know personally needs some work, but if I could get some advice on any other cards, lemme know.

I play casually with friends, so no side deck

Answer 1

You should use incinerate instead of volcanic hammer as it is the same thing except that it is instant. Also lightning bolt is 3 damage instant for 1 mana so it can replace shock or volcanic hammer. Char and psionic blast might work in that deck you would just need to test it out. Also some dual lands would work well like volcanic islands, steam vents and cascade bluffs. I think you may also need some more lands altogether.

I reckon you need to actually redo your counterspells altogether, use stuff like rune snags, counterspells, mana drains, mana leaks, rewinds, force of wills and definitely cryptic commands.

Also in decks like these you will need draw cards so use stuff like ancestral vision (unless you wanna pay 80 times as much for an ancestral recall).

boomerang may be better for returning stuff to its owners hand.

Also in that deck try using stifle with phyrexian dreadnaught as you can have a turn 2 12/12 with trample!!

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

yeah this is a good deck and can winn tournaments os from the best decks i been see i wait i help you