What would Gush look like in the current meta?

[TheProfessor]

I am a huge fan of playing Gush in vintage.  I tend to change decks a lot, but always find myself turning back to some sort of Gush build.  As everyone knows, the meta has shifted from what it was last winter when Gush still seemed very relevant, so I have to ask for some help building a Gush deck that is viable in the current meta game.  Which build would be most effective: Storm or Vault-Key? What colors should the deck include?

Here is the Gush Storm list that I have been playing, but I know it could still use some work.
1 Blightsteel Colossus

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Gifts Ungiven
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Mental Misstep
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Gush

1 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Regrowth
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Preordain

1 Fastbond

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

1 Library of Alexandria
3 Island
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard:
2 Dismember
1 Duress
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Nature's Claim
3 Ravenous Trap
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Tormod's Crypt


The basic build came from Rich Shay's list from Champs last year, but I cut the Mox Pearl and Timetwister in favor of the fourth Preordain and Gifts Ungiven.  I have tried several other cards and configurations, but this has felt the most solid to me.

What would you change?

[The Atog Lord]

I think a main problem with traditional Gush lists right now is that the metagame is not friendly toward cantrip-based decks. A year ago, things were much better for Preordain et al. I discussed this in more detail in the Ritual Oath thread.

[TheProfessor]

Thanks! I will go check it out!

[cvarosky80]

I think a main problem with traditional Gush lists right now is that the metagame is not friendly toward cantrip-based decks. A year ago, things were much better for Preordain et al. I discussed this in more detail in the Ritual Oath thread.

There is a lot of truth in that statement. I have been running Gush for over a year now, and since February, I have had consistently mediocre to bad results with it where previously, I had done quite well in terms of at least being in contention well into the late rounds of nearly every tournament I had played in. That's not to say I don't think Gush is not viable, as decks like RUG Delver and Turbo-Tezz have put up good results, but neither of those was a "conventional" Gush deck, but rather used Gush as an efficient draw mechanic, and not an engine for the deck, like East Coast Wins or Rich Shay's Champs list from last year did.