I played the exact maindeck I suggested above, but changed the sideboard slightly, and got 6th at our may 30th peasant tournament. It's an absolute blast to play! Every bit as fun as it looks!
The sideboard was as follows.
4 Disrupt (vs various decks)
4 Envelop (vs discard decks)
3 Gigadrowse (vs counterspell decks)
4 Hydroblast (vs burn, taïga, and grapeshot combo)
I never boarded in the Envelop, but I didn't encounter any black hand or similar decks, nor Grapeshot combo. Against other decks it's bad.
I was dissapointed in Disrupt. The cantrip is really nice, but in the end it doesn't stop spells if your life depends on it (and it did). It's great vs discard if you can counter the spell, though I would prefer Envelop in that matchup.
I would have been happy with Annul as well, as affinity decks are on the rise now that we unbanned the artifact lands.
The other option would have been Blue Elemental Blast, since I lost to a vise burn deck where aforementioned Disrupt didn't do enough.
I took out Accumulated Knowledge every time. In general it is too slow, and once you get going, the Oona's Grace and Evermind will do the same for you in terms of card advantage.
I've learned to never take out the uncommons! They're vital to keep drawing gas (Evermind), or when you have to burn Dampen Thoughts to generate enough mana to get out of a stickly situation (Stream of Consciousness).
The most likely candidates to take out after game 1 are, in order, the 4 AK's, 1 Gigadrowse, 1 Dampen Thought, 1 Merchant Scroll, 4 Ponders. You want to keep as many arcane spells in the deck as you can possibly keep. The only one I would take out is a single Dampen Thought.
Don't hesitate to board in Gigadrowse if the other deck is is running creatures that are way too fast to handle (Slivers, Silly Simic, maybe Taïga - though Hydroblast is better vs that deck).
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