The way youre talking bout confusing the opponent and the planning you seem to put into your decks makes me feel very noobish Now to follow it up with a noobish question:
If its suppose to be defensive, would it be better suited to have closer to a 40 card count with some stalling cards like Congeal and Discord?
Anyways he doesn't use 40 Cards, as it makes it more prone to bad draws, its not a deck out so no need for over maybe at worst 35 cards, this deck is not a complete stall, its slightly more inclined to defense but its a balanced deck.
For that reason it has damage... It stalls, while it builds up damage, another example of this is Mono Aether (Not my version, just the average person one).
EDIT: Ninja'd by under a min by will, then again his deck not mine, so its his vision.