Dies to Removal

You can also flashback Ravings which is significant.

With Act being printed I wonder if a storm deck with less reliance on the graveyard might be possible. Perhaps get away from Pyromancer Ascension and Past in Flames and play Epic Experiment and Act? That allows you to no longer be soft to Abrupt Decay and postboard hate like Rest in Peace.

Anger of the Gods is strictly better than Slagstorm in every matchup you'd bring the two cards in for. I think a third Shatterstorm would be nice to have. I would probably bump Defense Grid to a one of. Fighting through countermagic isn't as problematic as fighting through postboard hate so the two Echoing Truth is enough in my opinion.

It's bad when blue Zendikar fetches are commading twice as much as most Legacy duals.

It's the best ritual in the deck. I have no idea why anyone would want to play less than four.

I'm in the Ravings camp as well.

But yeah, Val, if you've played U/R Delver for this long, I'd say the next step to take is to play Storm. You've already familiarized yourself with some very complex decision trees from the Delver deck.

If the meta shifts more toward Zoo strategies which Delver is traditionally weak to, I may be forced to play Storm anyway. I've been thinking of ways to tune Delver to beat Zoo but haven't come up with a solid strategy yet.

FWIW I enjoy goldfishing my Sac Land Tendrils deck (never actually played it because no one plays Legacy here) and I've goldfished Modern Storm as well. Both are pretty difficult to pilot which I enjoy. I tend to prefer more interactive decks like Delver but sometimes I just like doing unfair things.

I'm also glad I picked up all the staples for this deck before they skyrocketed. Got my Past in Flames and Pyromancer Ascensions at $1 each! Will be nice to pilot this when I want a break from UR Delver.

I like the addition of Thought Scour here.