Okay, so I made out like a bloody bandit yesturday. After buying and aquiring all I could set and otherwise, I managed to get my hands on some cool stuff. For starters, I got Manamorphose for the deck, which is a card I'd been trying to get for a year or two. Either no one had them, or had them but didn't know where they were, or had them didn't know where they were and wanted me to sort through their stuff.
Not really applicable, but eh, life goes on. At the Standard Tourny on Saturday I managed to run into someone selling/trading Commons and Uncommons. Lucky for me I cleaned em out of Desperate Rituals, Isochron Scepters, Seething Songs, and Rite of Flame. What I did manage to get through that was Manamorphose, a full playset which got put in. While I've liked the angle of Cultivate and Kodama's Reach, they're both pretty slow starting at 2G, and they don't search for my shock lands (since my Basic Land count is fairly small at 8/18[15]), so I switched them out for Farseek due to that fact. The Terramorphic Expanse helps out with my mana curve as well, and filters out the deck for lands nicely.
Though the kill condition is still Dragonstorm. the exact method of death differs. Depending on the Storm, I can end up with 4-6 Dragons,(though an opening hand with 2 Mountains, Desperate Ritual, 3x Rite of Flame and a Dragonstorm means turn-two win (turn one with all four Rite of Flames). There are two methods for extreme death.
1) Burn: The simplest method is to Storm for four Bogardan Hellkite and target your opponent with their damage directly. I'm not a big fan of this method, as it's rather boring. However the deck was re-designed to be a bit faster if required, and this is the most assured method of death.
2) Dragon Over-run: This is broken down into two known variations and both involve summoning Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund with the Storm (first or last, it doesn't matter).
2a) Double-Strike Amblify, Regenerate, Oh MY!: This involves summoning Dragon Tyrant, Kilnmouth Dragon and either one of the Hellkite Overlord for a simple Dragon Rush of varying effects. Kilnmouth is useful if I have a lot of Dragons in hand and make use of his Amplify ability. The Tyrant is just fun to drop because people forget that he has Double Strike, and the Overlords just have annoyance with Firebreathing and Regenerate.
2b) Dragons come in Storms: This is perhaps the more fun and crazy of the Storm. Karrthus is summoned first, so your opponents know there's going to be a Zerg-rush of dragons. What you drop next are Broodmate Dragon, as many for the Storm-2. For your last Dragon (and it has to be last) is Utrava Dragon. So for a Dragonstorm of 4, you drop Karrthus, two Broodmates, and then Utrava, then swing. You have six Dragons, and you get an additional 6 6/6 with flying to block any retaliation from your opponents. And if you manage to Storm for six, well... Then you have 10 Dragons swinging, with another 10 beefy blockers waiting for your opponent to make a move. Afterwards this just gets ridiculous because you continue to attack after that initial rush, and the dragons just keep multiplying.
Either Storm Scenario is theoretically possible on Turn 1 or two. Burning through your Mana Producers while Filtering out your lands can make it a bit easier. Dragonspeaker Shaman are there to be able to hard-cast your dragons on the cheap, which can be done with some well placed Seething Songs and Desperate Rits. The deck could be made for Modern very easily.
Modifications would include removing Seething Song and Rite of Flame, adding in another Desperate Ritual, Four Pyretic Ritual and some smaller creatures and spells that produce Mana either as they come in, or as they die. For making it highly competitive and a bit faster so that you're not drawing into Dragons consistently removing Kilnmouth, Dragon Tyrant, and the Overlords but keeping the Broodmates, Bogardan Hellkites, Utvara Hellkite and Karrthus are paramount and the core to the deck. Adding in some Black Draw would be ideal as well, if not some Black Mana production to help you get to the Storm faster.
Ideas escape me, but I think y'all figure out something.
