I feel like it needs more card draw.  I think that impulse and brainstorm are great, but they are affecting card quality, not quantity.  I have very limited experience, but I have found replenishing my hand to be crucial.

I play a bit of tog, and I like the AK+intuition engine a lot, but I don't think there is room for it.  Maybe you can think of another way to get the draw.

I am a little concerned about drain outlets.  The wishes and angels are great sinks so I'm probably worrying about nothing.

I must be mistaken then, I'm under the impression that samurai of the pale curtain refers to permanents.

  I believe that instants and sorceries never come into play, and therefore are not permanents.  As far as I know, when they resolve they generate their effect and then immediately go to the graveyard, without ever having been in play.  Have you read the rules?  If not then 400.2, and all of section 401, specifically 401.7, might be of interest.


EDIT: I seem to have been beaten.  I would like to add that I believe the samurai is great against most welder based decks, and I only sought to dispute the one aspect of your statement.

I have a couple of questions for you actually.

How does the samurai hose Tog?
I'm under the impression that Tog doesn't need to recurse permanents, and instead wants to replay spells through will, or remove them to pump the Tog itself.  I might be missing something however.

Why would you want to run shoals in this deck?
I'm assuming that is what you are referring to with "the holy trinity of counters", but I don't see a diversity of casting costs in your blue spells.  The discussion I have seen only encourages the use of shoals in decks like Tog, which have many blue spells of differing cc which could be pitched without ruining their game.

You might not have been refering to shoals, if you weren't I'm sorry to have gotten off topic.


Other than that it looked fun.