When do you think that I'll be OK?

Miss Blue underwent some changes: 4 High Tide, 3 Sleep to come in for Sanity Grinding, Jace and Rewind. I had a hit of inspiration: Long-Term Plans for Memory Erosion. Coupled with Telling Time, I could use this as a tutor of sorts, when I was in need of a missing link.

My chance to test it was against stonethorn's version of Stoneblade, now with Elbrus!

The result was: I got trounced. Yes, I milled half the library but it didn't matter. I couldn't stop the creature onslaught. Casting Sleep didn't matter at all-I just didn't have enough time to do what I wanted to do.

So that's not working. What will? What I need to resolve is how I either accelerate myself or decelerate my opponent.

Two things happened: in the search for cards that work with the Miracle mechanic, I came across Portent. This set off a tickle for me: I have Whispers of the Muse, but how often am I using Buyback? Never. But with Portent, I can dig deeper into my library, shuffle if if I hate it and after casting Long-Term Plans, set up a draw for myself much easier.

Second: I realized that I don't have many permanents in play. I can afford to play some spells that might otherwise have heavy drawbacks. Enter Wash Out. This is, against any non-blue, non-(colorless) artifact deck, a board reset that leaves me with the opportunity to claim a huge advantage. Even against Blue decks, I may still be able to eek out an advantage because for four mana, my deck is back up and running and if I have more mana, I can start milling immediately, whereas most other decks will have to attack, which will take a full turn.

So I'm going to go with this, and see if I can improve Ms. Blue's odds.

What's that? What about decks that run a lot of artifacts? Well...you can't have everything.