Hi again!
Talking about Gift vs Intuition..I'm not saying Inutition used like Gift is better..not at all..we are not talking about this!
The presence of recoup gives to Intuition another way to be used. The really strenght of Gift is the possibility to tutor Y. Will.
And Intuition, now, is able to do it too.
But intuition does other things, especially at the beginning of a match.
Drain is strong here as it is in Gift.dec.

I don't agree with you saying card advantage is not important. It's VERY important.
But tutoring too..This is not a contradiction..
I think a good mix is the way to go.
It's not needed to fill the deck with all the game's tutors.

Let's make a comparison with Gift for the matchup you are worried about.
This deck, against MeandeckGift, has a good matchup..why? beacause of card advantage.
T1T plays the control role, while Gift the combo role.
The more the game lasts, more the victory is near
And you can do this thanks to your draw engine (supported by the tutoring one).

Against Stax and Fish.
T1T's mana curve is lower; you have the same acceleration, except awful vault and petal.
A solid mana base. Not dead cards like misdirection (against stax).
Your answer have not to pass only trough a sorcery (merchant) but you can use an instant too (wish).
The kill conditions are the same (DSC and Y. WIll)..so I don't see why MG's matchup could be better than T1T's.

All you need is to fix the deck for your meta.
If you like rebuild MB, you can cut a cunning wish.
If you don't like the duresses, you can cut them, add 1xmystical tutor, the fourth merchant scroll and chain of vapor/fire-Ice/fourth Intuition/1xGiftsUngiven (it's hard to me to believe duress is bad in you metagame  :shock:)
Sb too can be designed adding cards against Oath and enchantments (rushing river,echoing trhuth, ...) or other matchup you are worried about.

About the Ubg Tog.
I was already playing T1T's evolution at gencon..but I have not been lucky that day 
Green is crap. It gives you only bad cards compared to the red ones.
The only green card better than the equivalent red one is berserk (>fling).
I can imagine he was playing green only for it.
Tinker is far superior to Tog. While it is in play (2U against 1UB), DSC tramples already.
If you want to kill immediately you just need walk (intuition for it + recoup + lotus?)
Against decks playing many duals you SB Titan which is devastating!
Tinker is a bomb, Psychatog is not. Not anymore.

Hi, I'm Lorenzo  
I'm glad to see an increasing interest in the evolution of T1T.
I do think the deck has some potential even in the USA where the metagame is very different from here, in Italy.

The deck has a great flexibility, and you can change some cards.
Changes Negator13 is suggesting are not going to change the build of the deck, even if..

-3 Duress
-2 Cunning Wish

+1 Island
+1 Burning Wish
+1 Scroll
+1 Rebuild
+1 Mystical Tutor

I do think 24 mana sources are enough, and an additional land is not needed.

I do not like Burning Wish here..I tested it a lot, and it was MB in the first build.
At least in SB you want a card drawer (Deep Anal), a Duress, a Pyroclasm and a ToA; but, with some tests, I found out you almost never optimize these cards, and BurningWish often sits in your hand for many turns.
Playing only Pyroclasm and ToA makes BW even more a dead card.
I do not like dead cards..DSC is enough
Because of it you need to change the sb swapping instants for sorceries, while during a Y Will you can play enough spells to make a BrainFreeze lethal. I would consider it only in a meta full of Oaths.
Cunning Wish is a far superior card in a deck such this, and you need at least 2-3(better) to optimize the Sb, imho.

Rebuild is a good card, I would add it in a meta full of stacks. Its only fault is that it falls to CotV @3 as Tinker and Cunning Wish.

About the 3xduress I can only say that I find them good in our metagame, but if you face not so many control matches..well you can cut them. Here we have many MeanDeckGift around, Slaver, TpS and mirror matches..
I do not think you need my explanation why duress is good against these decks.  

@Smmenen: well..the deck you posted is _{a bit} different.. :shock: We all agree you are a great deckbuilder..but well..this is a very different thing!

@Hi-Val: I tested the Gifts in the FoF slot..it was good..but FoF is simply better..because when you need to tutor the "gift-pieces" you can always use an intuition, in all the other cases FoF is better. I tested 1xGifts in SB too and it was quite good!
But I have often found it a winmore card.