I'm actually against using Howling Mine, since the opponent also benefits from it, and BEFORE you, at that. I'd advocate for Playing Jace Beleren, to the same effect. Other than that, I agree with NBarden, Ambassador Laquatus and Traumatize are necessary. 2 Traumatize, 3 tops, but 4 Laquatus for sure. And of course, you could get a bunch of stuff with cool abilities and play Rings of Brightheart, for starters, it doubles the effect of Liliana Vess (I'd play 1 copy, 2 tops) Jace AND Laquatus. I'd cut the discard theme completly as well, losing Megrim and other stuff like that, upping the count of Counterspells (playing Cancel, Rune Snag and Cryptic Command, for instance). I'd probably pack a Teachings package maindecked, as well.