Burning Psions (Unupped Aether/Fire)

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I couldn't find anything like this, which is basically a deck that relies on psions for damage. Some basics:

1. Psions deal most of the damage (and bypass shields)
2. Deflags can deal with pesky reflection shields and weapons, empathetic bond, or any annoying permanents
3. Rain of Fire for basic CC
4. Fractal for increased damage once quanta production gets going
5. Dim. Shield for protection (sometimes, but not always necessary, mostly to counter rush decks). Trade out Lobo for another if you want.

I tested it 5 times in AI3 (I know it's not much, but still...), it won 5 games and lost 0, although once I would have lost if not for the dim. shields.
The biggest problem with this deck is quanta, which is slow to get at first, but is actually a decent amount in mid-late game.
Any suggestions, feedback would be welcome!

[treebeard xiii]

First thought defrag can't target reflective shields which lead to the fact reflective kills this deck, second thought psiontal is like this just without the fire part and psiontosis is this with life instead of fire, third thought not enough dims to stall for long enough to make a difference nor for drawing chance thats enough thoughts to be going on with.

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Eh.. I realize that there are similar decks, but the point is that this deck works. However, fire does allow for much needed PC and CC, since lightning doesn't deal enough damage to enough creatures (IMHO).

[omegareaper7]

Eh.. I realize that there are similar decks, but the point is that this deck works. However, fire does allow for much needed PC and CC, since lightning doesn't deal enough damage to enough creatures (IMHO).

So instead of using lightning, which does 5. You use rain of fire which costs 5 more and does 3 instead? I see a logic fail right here.....
That aside, it looks short on quanta.

[160274160048]

Eh.. I realize that there are similar decks, but the point is that this deck works. However, fire does allow for much needed PC and CC, since lightning doesn't deal enough damage to enough creatures (IMHO).

So instead of using lightning, which does 5. You use rain of fire which costs 5 more and does 3 instead? I see a logic fail right here.....
That aside, it looks short on quanta.

I mean the emphasis on the enough creatures portion, as there tends to usually be at least three creatures on a field, but that aside, I'm not sure what to remove to allow it more quanta generating sources.

[Chapuz]

1- Deflags can't destroy reflective shields, because they are enchanted/protected/immaterial/whatever.
2- Did you try this deck? is there enough  production?

[160274160048]

1- Deflags can't destroy reflective shields, because they are enchanted/protected/immaterial/whatever.
2- Did you try this deck? is there enough  production?

I tried the deck 5 times, won all five, and reconsidered further testing (since this is for AI3 anyways), but since only 1 AI3 (I think) has reflective shield, it probably should work. The aether production in slow for the first few turns, but once you have 4 pillars/pends out (which isn't hard), it's fine. Fractals don't have to be played at the beginning.