I really appreciate the comment and I get what you’re saying, but I have absolutely no idea what I could remove to make that happen. I think that’s the part I’m having trouble with: deciding which cards to cut and why. It definitely makes sense to have more mana, but it doesn’t make sense to me on what to remove. I made a post last week when I was several versions back of this and people told me to take out lands and add ramp/draw/removal. It’s worth noting that some of those lands tap for 2 mana, but I’m sure that doesn’t make the biggest difference. I’ll also be able to use my commander ability and some other mill cards to to mill through some lands and tutor crucible of worlds to be able to play those. And the average mana cost isn’t exactly accurate, because the goal of the deck isn’t necessarily to play every card that comes into my hand. It’s to have them go to the graveyard and cheat them out without having to pay mana costs.

That being said, I still just don’t know what to cut. I’ve only got 2 equippable artifacts, and they and the rest seem to fit pretty well. I could take out some board removal cause I have a good bit of that. Is 26 creatures too many? 1 in 4 cards being a creature seems like a good number to me, especially when the goal is to send most of those to the graveyard and bring them back.

Any help with understanding what to cut or why you would cut something in particular would be huge for helping me understand the logic of building a good deck