OnDeck: Gates

I was having some trouble thinking up an innovative deck idea for Rav, and I decided to go back to my favorite deck from Tempest; 3-color control. Actually it ended up being 5-colors back then, but mainly focused on blue hard counters, white creature-hate/burn-hate and green accel/beats/recursion, all of which are in Ravnica. Here's my idea.

lockdown

white-
3 ivory mask
2 story circle
2 loxodon gatekeeper
1 blazing archon

blue-
4 remand
4 thoughtbind
3 telling time
1 meloku, the clouded mirror

green
4 birds of paradise
4 naturalize
3 farseek
3 sakura, tribe elder
3 recollect

gold-
3 watchwolf

7 forest
5 plains
2 islands
4 adarkar wastes
4 brushland

ideally the deck would get going quickly thanks to accel and gets some creatures on the table. watchwolf throws your opponent off balance by creating an early threat, and a great weenie killer. i play ivory mask main deck because of the strength of ravnica's mill and burn spells. the first version of the deck tried to make use of convoke and transmute, but i think focusing on low-cost, easy-splash removal and solid disruption makes the deck very easy to play. of course, when a UW guild comes out, the deck will probably get a whole lot better, but the build plays pretty well so far.