[Deck] TES - The EPIC Storm

[Piceli89]

That is such a ridiculous logical fallacy, I could just as easily argue that decreasing your odds of discarding Counterbalance on the play/draw from SBing Duress is even more devastating than taking 2 damage from Thought Seize at your own discretion. As a wish target, it's always up to you whether or not you need to wish for Thought Seize, and if you have no other choice than 2 life is the least of your worries.

Seriously, even ANT variants run 4 MD,1 SB hardly matters. And I'd argue it's a lot better than the 1 Chain of Vapor for a whopping 2 Mystical Tutor that every one seems to be playing.

You can say that but I'm still not convinced. If you play Pyroblast instead of the 4th Duress (which remains in the sb)l, you have chances to counter or destroy it, not to mention pyroblast can do lots of other things. It's not always possible to discard Counterbalance 1st turn, because there's something called Brainstorm which lets them hide it if we're on the draw or to get it from the top as well.
About Mystical tutors: even if I dislike their slowness and C-Disadvantage too, I think such a versatile card is required in this deck. I mean, you won't always open perfect hands, and often you're lacking for a tutor or a protection piece. That's were Mystical shines. If you manage to get perfect hands exclusively by cantrips, I'm happy for you, but this sadly doesn't happen to me too. Even without the LED+AdN trick, it's still a necessity in this deck, since it pretty much increases the threat density too, now that most of us play with a single AdN. And if you're replacin them with more accels, I really think you'll be more likely to open hands with shittons of mana, 1 piece of protection and a bomb/tutor missing.
And another thing i can't get of your reasoning is why then standard ANT lists runs 4 Mysticals if they suck so much as you say, but qualify for a DTB and put up several top8s. I mean, they don't even run top, and they're playing the same 8 cantrips as us ! Are they fool?