#No real focus, is that okay?

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gleaming sparrow
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Esika cares most about legendaries than anything so the deck will be out of balance tbh.

Secondly, you would need to up the lands to at least a minimum of 35 for a consistent card draw.

covert pumice
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The deck seems to be trying to mostly cast the Bridge, so idk if legendaries are really that important here

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I do think this deck wants way more ramp. You wanna play the bridge early and you wanna play it often, because it will get targeted. You also may want a way to play some of the more expensive cards in case the bridge gets blown up. I also agree that the land count is a bit low atm

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There are also a couple of includes here that just seem random and have nothing to do with your strategy.
Why do you need Traumatize and keening stone for example? The rest of the deck has little to nothing to do with mill. These card won't really help you.

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Like I get you can combine the 2, but it feels like a very expensive "gotcha", when you could use these slots for cards that further your actual gameplan more

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I'm also wondering if this deck really wants to run demonic consultation + thassa. By the current looks of it, this is a rather casual deck. It feels somewhat misplaced here.

fiery scarab
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I generally encourage people to state the intended power level of your deck when you introduce it. If you are going for a low powered casual deck that should draw different observations versus putting together a cEDH deck.

That being said, a deck should still have a purpose, even it is isn't high powered, or have a way to win.

tough scarab
# covert pumice There are also a couple of includes here that just seem random and have nothing ...

You're right, I just put together some combo's I had.. so you see that target player mill (I since removed) and the self mill with thassa(still in there for now). I also had the construct and fumarole (I took out) since it didn't fit the theme as much, nor had a way to make it unblockable before pumping. The other combo is the Kinnan Bonder Prodigy and Basalt Monolith to get a big fireball (maybe fitting theme?). I am not sure what more ramp I should get besides I want to get more fetchlands in the deck (to maximize Crucible of Worlds), but not sure if I should go for more dual lands that are "land" not fetchable.

tough scarab
# fiery scarab I generally encourage people to state the intended power level of your deck when...

Yeah just started commander so no idea of power level to even rate this or shoot for. I haven't played it much yet, only against 4 mostly precons now: token triumph, mishra's burnished banner (can beat both), a homebrew blue mill someone made (beat it a couple times), and then loss to Silverquil and Buckle Up. I'm usually playing from behind because they saw ulamaog come out the first time I played the deck, and from then on my deck is the threat. I maybe try group hug a bit with manaflare/howling coming out so they want to keep me alive, but put me low so that's where Repay in Kind might come back to get them?

I did add more dragons and swapped Nissa for a Sarkhan.. but I'm not going to drop $ on Ur-Dragon, so don't think I'll ever get it that competitive. Just want it to have a chance?

As for purpose, that's where I don't know the focus. Dragons? Should I make it more a big creature/planeswalker and try to double upkeeps? I guess it's got a lot of board wipe (and have a couple planar outburst and cleansing) but I don't have my Eldrazi Monument or the Faiths reward to pop them back out.. maybe I should? IDK.. I play against a couple artifact/token makers so I leaned into board wipes.. but just took out Jokahalps because land destruction is a bit mean.

tough scarab
covert pumice
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Thoracle combo is a popular high power combo, so throwing it randomly into an otherwise very casual deck feels out of place. There is the aspect of it being a feel-bad finisher for a casual game, but I also just think it's not very good here.
The pieces individually don't really seem super helpful to your gameplan, there isn't really a time where you want to use either consult or thoracle on their own. There are better tutors than Consultation and Thoracle's ETB is rather underwhelming without going for the wincon.
So chances are they will either be sitting in your hand, or worst case, randomly end up on the battlefield with bridge when you don't want them to.
Decks that want to go for this type of wincon will usually go for more tutors to get these pieces consistently, but that inherently also increases the powerlefvel. So it really depends on where you want to go with this deck and who you expect to play against.
I just think a casual Birdge deck would much rather just have big stompy creatures to cheat out, or run another synergistic piece, rather than win with a fast combo.