This deck seems amazing, and was the reason I just signed up on themanadrain.  Since you are running gifts, and plan to generate arbitrarily large amounts of mana and storm via lotus recursion, is there any merit in running a Mind's Desire in lieu of one of the Tasigur's?  Also, you said you dodged shops and had a strategy of "pray".  Would you think a MD hurkyl's recall (and possibly scroll or mystical) and more basics would be enough of a reasonable plan?  And if you cut a sea and tundra for 2 islands, do you think you would have regretted it in other matchups?