Heh. One of my favorite decks. I took this down to a tourney at Bill's Magic Shop in Marion and went 7-0. (I'm not bragging, Bill's was generally weaker players who played aggro A LOT).

But, anyways, this was a blast. Odyssey-block and 7th edition Standard era.

spells 37
4 Howling Mine
4 Wrath of God
3 Cunning Wish
4 Plagiarize
3 Reclaim (4th in SB to wish for)
3 Moment's Peace
4 Counterspell
4 Memory Lapse
3 Spellbook
4 Gerrard's Wisdom
1 Test of Endurance

Land 23

some SB wish targets included Reclaim, Naturalize, Krosan Reclamation, Disenchant, Divert, Opportunity, etc, don't remember them all. Also had several SB cards, probably compost.

The deck tries to set up a soft lock of Howling Mine + Plagiarize to amass a good card advantage. Reclaim generally targets plagiarize to really expand the lock. It's like a snowball, once this deck gets going, it really starts drawing cards. It can be very absurd when your opponet goes 3-4-5 turns without drawing a card. Against a BR Land Destruction deck at marion, I made the poor sap go 7 turns without drawing a card. Most people in the room felt he deserved it for playing land desturction. LOL. Anyways, the deck is in real trouble when howling mines are not in play though, the deck cannot play at one card per turn.

After you get all those cards in hand, you try to string together spellbook and gerrard's wisdom. Yeah, I know spellbook is terrible, but it's necessary here. It might have been nice to have the spellbook land back then, but it was already a 3 color deck. Gerrard's Wisdom will start giving you like 50 some life at times, easily stringing into test of endurance for the win. You can shuffle it back via cunning wish if they kill it. I think that happened like once.

It was generally pretty good against aggro and bad against control. Moment's Peace, Wrath, and Gerrard's Wisdom are good obviously. It's hard to resolve a plagarize on your opponet's turn when they are playing countermagic as well.