PPP 1: Documenting my Premodern experience

Hi! I'm Raphaël A. Caron, and I'm the guy who designed the original Parfait deck, in 1999-2000. It was a Vintage deck that looked like this:

Drawing Engine:

4x Land Tax

2x Scroll Rack

1x Jayemdae Tome

Survival Spells/Silver Bullets:

1x Story Circle

4x Swords to Plowshares

3x Aura of Silence

1x Moat

1x Balance

1x Wrath of God

2x Zuran Orb

1x Ivory Mask

1x Ivory Tower

Utility Spells:

4x Abeyance

1x Enlightened Tutor

1x Planar Birth

4x Argivian Find

Kill:

2x Sacred Mesa

1x Tormod's Crypt

1x Soldevi Digger

Mana Sources and Lands:

1x Library of Alexandria

1x Serra's Sanctum

13x Plains

1x Strip Mine

3x Wasteland

1x Lotus Petal

1x Black Lotus

1x Mox Pearl

1x Mox Diamond

1x Sol Ring

Premodern is a thing. After many years of Commander play, I was longing for a return to a somewhat more competitive play environment and, even if I had briefly heard about Premodern, it was The Professor's YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3vJEZeBH0) that convinced me to try the format. It's just great! All the old cards, the ancient archetypes, and new ones as well! Even better than all that: the community. Helpful, friendly, welcoming.

So it was time to rebuild Parfait. Almost all the cards are available. Well, no Black Lotus nor Balance this time, but it's fine: the Power 9 is banned for everyone else as well. With that in mind, I wanted to try something new. When I first created Deck Parfait, I wanted to build a mono-white deck that could compete and NOT be White Weenie. This time I'm removing all the deckbuilding constraints I was forcing myself to follow. I'm going to try other colors, play creatures(!).

In this blog, I'll explain my thoughts about the format, the deck I'm playing, what I see, want I want to try. I have several other ideas for decks, I'll talk about them here as well. I'll start with explaining the Premodern Parfait initial design and then I'll explain each modification until we reach my current decklist. Feel free to comment, ask questions. And please keep in mind that English isn't my first language (sorry!).