Yesterday I loaded up Jeskai Mentor online and noticed it runs significantly more permission than other vintage decks I've played. So my question to you all is, how much permission do you run?

@john-cox isn't gifts just even slower intuition/realms uncharted in this deck?

How does Damping Sphere fit into lands?

Unrestricting Fastbond would be cool. Lands would significantly change the vintage meta. The problem would be with all the new Fastbond decks available. It's hard to turn down hands with Fastbond serveral lands and a major threat that wins the game like Tezzeret or Jace

For those unaware flash is one of the stupidest cards ever printed. The fact you can instantly kill someone at instant speed with protection for 2 mana with protean hulk is dumb.

Anyway another card that pairs well with flash is academy rector. When academy rector dies you exile it and search for a enchantment and put it into play.

So how viable is a flash rector deck? Is it better to go for the "I win" enchantments like omniscience and eldrazi conscription or for silver bullets like energy flux and runed halo? Which colours are right to play, obviously blue for flash, white for rector, and black for tutors + viscera seer, but is it worth adding red or green?

Would a UW balance deck be competitive in the current meta? Would unrestricting this card alter the meta in any major way?

@gremlin-lord agreed, that would be great if possible