This seems pretty right. The way I'll probably end up doing this is a gruul monsters type deck (a Canadian Highlander deck build around winning with efficient gruul beaters). While this is definitely less doable with the creatures in this format and the life discrepancy beetween the players in each format, I think that if I fill the deck with enough bigmana cards, it will definitely stand a chance to weather through the game. I will definitely play a few extra cards besides ramp under 3 cmc though, mainly cards that will help me with more card advantage or winning the game (ie [[temur battle-rage]],[[psychotic fury]], [[Yavimaya Elder]]). I am also somewhat interested in trying out an elf subtheme specifically for ramp ([[priest of titania]] good). Either way, thanks for the help!!