The Retired: Name of the Game

It really just became time to admit that the Blue/Black version of this deck from 20 years ago, was much better.

3 Patagia Viper
3 Raven Familiar
3 Wirewood Elf
3 Chasm Skulker
3 Seedborn Muse
1 Verdant Force

4 Symbiotic Deployment
1 Verdant Embrace

9 Island
9 Forest
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Alchemist's Refuge
4 Temple of Mystery

3 Temporal Spring
3 Ponder
3 Fallow Earth
3 Plow Under
3 Donate

I wanted to love this so much. Donate Symbiotic Deployment to deny your opponent cards? Let's do that!

I suppose part of the problem was in the follow up plan: Fallow Earth and Plow Under might be backbreaking if I'm ahead, but Wirewood Elf and Patagia Viper are not the cards that help put me there. 

The other one is that the old school Donate/Illusions decks really did do this better. Why stall out the game when you can win it?