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I like Personal Tutor, but back when Mystical wasn't banned, I remember that it was Dark Ritual that I tutored for the most, by far.

Against aggro-control and slow control, where you have the luxury of sitting back to accumulate cards in your hand then just fight through their counters.

Or just drop fetchlands altogether and run something horrible such as Forbidden Orchard. Like me. :tongue:

Same here. I used to play it conservatively, only using Chrome Mox on my Storm turn - which sucked. However, if you use it aggressively, like

Turn 1
Land
Chrome Mox, imprint something...

Yes, I would have. The chance of them having countermagic online greatly increases with a land drop.

Awesome performances.

Just a question... How do you guys shuffle your deck? I'm trying to avoid getting hands of 3 Burning Wish, 2 Infernal Tutor, 2 lands.

Recklessness is one of the things you need to embrace if you want to develop as a Storm player. While that hand is, as you say "reckless" because it has no protection, are you sure that a hand of 6...

And for their synergy with SDT and Brainstorm.

It looks pretty solid considering it's what you were able to scrounge up from what you have, but I think you should not run SDT. It hurts too much with City of Brass and depletes your Gemstone Mines....

On hindsight it cost you the win, but I think that wasn't a wrong play. Playing Duress that early, I assume you were wanting to hit Counterbalance with it. If CB had hit the table with Force back-up...