[Legacy] PAST IN FLAMES TENDRILS OF AGONY

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PAST IN FLAMES TENDRILS OF AGONY

What's in a name? 

As some of you astute Storm player might spot right away, this is a land-light, Tutor-heavy, 2 preordain, 1 Tendrils, PiF iteration of Storm. We threw the Ad Nauseam to the board (it is very, very powerful but plays poorly with our 4 copies of Dark Petition) and upped our Tutor count to a whopping 8 total. 8 copies of a card that lets us get whatever we need. Infernal Tutor is still the best Tutor, because it will always cost an investment of 2 paltry mana. Dark Petition with >5 mana floating will enable a Past in Flames kill or leave enough residual mana in pool for Tendrils of Agony. Pondering and seeing some mixture of these 2 Tutors and having a gripful of mana is pure joy; it is really stinking powerful and surely will raise eyebrows quicker than a Zendikar fetchland's price on the secondary market!

We play with 3 Thoughtseize in the maindeck! How cool is that? How powerful is that? How in the world!? It's true, though, that we want to combo Cabal Therapy with Probe, but now have a truly powerful disruption package in these two discard spells. We're not worried about our life total and thus we can finally play a heavy number of this card and it's remarkable. Thoughtseize doesn't care and being able to steal away any piece of our opponents' hand is a big upgrade over Duress.

We are heavily in Black. Bayou, Badlands, Swamp and Underground Sea are actually our best lands. The Island will simply let us play around Wasteland and cast Ponder and Brainstorm. 8 Fetchlands to make our cantrips even better and 2 (count 'em!) business spells. 8 fast-mana artifact round off the important pieces of our deck. We're fast, we're powerful and we're consistent. Leave that Mystical Tutor at home and bring on the Past in Flames and Tendrils of Agony!

I am excited to present to you my new vision of Storm in Legacy. So take a sample hand, sleeve this up and remember your Storm Triggers and retain priority when you're putting those Tutors on the stack with an Diamond in play. Any comments are appreciated. This is perfectly fine SB plan for an unknown Legacy metagame, and as always prepare a plan for your own sideboard! Merry Tendrils and to all good night.