Mono-Blue: Academy / Winter Orb (Casual deck)

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Hey all,

I've been out of magic for a long time (Since Mirage) and recently started
playing again via Apprentice online. So if I'm missing some newer cards
that'd work for this deck any tips would be greatly appreciated.

// Mana (Doesn't look like much but it's been more than enough in 20+ plays)
4 Polluted Delta (Purely for deck thinning purposes)
4 Flooded Strand
8 Island
1 Lotus Vale
2 Tolarian Academy
// Creatures
4 Palinchron
2 Peregrine Drake
2 Arcanis the Omnipotent
// Other
4 Arcane Denial
4 Mana Drain
2 Rewind
3 Man-o'-War
2 Braingeyser
1 Time Stretch
1 Time Spiral
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
// Artifacts
4 Sapphire Medallion
3 Urza's Bauble (Purely for deck thinning purposes)
3 Winter Orb
2 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire

60 cards (48 effective, minus deck thinners)

As you can tell it's pretty much an artifact/academy driven deck that slows
their game via the Winter Orb till I can get out one Palinchron to smack
them to death. It's usually pretty fast to get to either Arcanis out or
getting the WOrb to slow the game till anything else happens. The deck also
draws like crazy and is capable of complete game turn arounds w/ timewalk,
time stretch, braingeyeser giving me almost a pseudo 5:1 turn ratio.

 

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I've found three other cards you might be interested in.

voltaic key
Icy manipulator
Static orb

With these three you will be the only player untaping all their
permanents. Maybe some boune or other tap effect cards would be
appropriate.