I know people have had success with it, but I am very wary of Salvagers in Oath, since I expect 1 Oath activation to be my plan against shops and White Eldrazi, and Salvagers isn't usually.

Re:Ritual vs. PO
It's a complicated question and one that becomes more muddled as you add cards like the 1cmc tutors and 1cmc anti-hate to PO; since it opens you up to Mental Misstep a lot more, and as such nullifies one of the more strategic advantage of the deck. However, it's worth pointing out that Ritual-based Storm is significantly more hampered by Graveyard hate (specifically Tormod's or Leyline, though I suppose RiP also falls into this category) than PO. It relies on YawgWill and Dark Petition w/ Spell Mastery quite a bit. Given that graveyard hate will always be a thing in Vintage, and in rather large numbers - I don't feel that Ritual Storm actually manages to sneak in under the blanket of hate that PO faces.

Now, what are the advantages of it? Well no one is running maindeck Tormod's Crypt or Leyline. On the other hand, you also aren't as likely to just win the die roll and kill your opponent right then and there. In terms of the raw power, PO blows it out of the water.

@BandsWithOthers
I've been toying around with a few things. Mindbreaks in the side, Mindbreaks in the main. I quite like the Mindbreaks in general. Especially in the mirror where a single Force on the Draw is often just not enough to save you from the opponent doing silly degenerate things. I have yet to really settle on a sideboard configuration that I like, but I do enjoy how much room you actually have with this deck. Outside of the obligatory 4x Hurkyl's, 1x Blightsteel, and 2x Flusterstorm, the rest really feels quite transient. I think you likely want a total of 3-4 ways of removing troublesome hatepieces between the main and side as well. Currently I'm trying out Disenchants to bypass that prior mentioned Mental Misstep issue.

The one thing I am definitely sold on is the Torrential Gearhulk though. Card has been absolutely amazing. Between ease of hard-casting, pitching to Force, being able to get value even vs. Swords to Plowshares, and turning Tinker into a PO (after the first has been cast) - while actually being a pretty respectable body against the crap that White Eldrazi/Shops populate the board with, it has just been fantastic.

@Evoclipse exiling 3 black cards from the yard doesnt sound too unreasonable. but the fact that you are never ever casting it for its actual mana cost could become an issue. at what point would it just be easier to just cast snuff out or slaughter pact?

@desolutionist said:

Hey guys, the list we are talking about was metagamed for a heavy Shop/Eldrazi meta. I wouldn't play DRS in any other kind of meta.

I don't think you would want to play DRS with dark petition in any metagame to be honest (unless I am missing something or some pretty radical changes occur).
I also dont think storm would even deserve consideration in a *Heavy *Shop/drazi environment.( Which would mean something along the lines of 30 +% instead of what we have currently)

However, the current metagame is miles away from that since shops and eldrazi combined make up between roughly 15-25% of the metagame.
The way I see it, you have a maindeck that has extremely powerful tools against most of the format, then you hedge your sb (with pack rat and other things) to get to a roughly 40-45% matchup vs your weak spots. What else are you going to do ?

Re configuring the maindeck to have more chances g1(which is the fundamental problem, seeing as you can not reliably expect to win all post-boarded games) hurts your overall win percentage against the blue portion of the field way too much for it to be worth it. I'd rather inbreed my storm list than dillute it (we're not playing control).

After all you don't see blue decks pack any maindeck answer to dredge whatsoever (when it is an equivalent matchup for them than shops/eldrazis is for storm).

I don't understand why you want to bring ravenous trap in against Salvagers oath, what do you board out for it? it's already hard to have enough room for max anti-control disruption + 1/2 answers to problematic permanents in my experience.