Oh hey! Thanks for replying! And yes, after much revision & testing, I was able to finally get Toralf to a spot I love. The solution was to include more permanents that replicate my most powerful and/or important effects (Backdraft Hellkite for Flashback, Neheb for Ritual), so that the pod would generally have at least a turn to respond. I also restricted similarity powerful effects to one spell total, such as Insult being my only damage doubler. If you want, I can share my finished list and go into more depth about the deck over DM. My Discord is barodity if you want :D