Firstly, thanks for the Hive SBI!
Secondly, I think there is a lot we can do to optimize this deck. Scholar of Power can definitely come out. He's not that great, and more importantly, he's designed with a different deck in mind (spell boost). I'd also drop Erratic Portal and 1x Goblin. (I'd drop both, but I know you won't so let's compromise 😂).
I think you can get away with no ramp, but not without card draw. In short, I think you've over-tuned your deck to respond to a single card in Light. You could consider Safeguard, though.
Also, when you have ramp in the deck, you need to look for it in the mulligan. Sip of Elixir played turn 1 is huge. You spend 2 mana and easily get back 5+ extra mana over the course of the game. If you want to avoid Light's Levy, then I'd say put Sips back in. Magic needs to get to 6 mana ASAP to shut down aggro as they have no healing.
Just my .02.
Haha I think you do make some great points, appreciate them. While I also think that SoP isn't that great in this deck, it does have the Aether tag and can still function as an extra Shaped Blast with Tracking Bolt, so I decided to put it in to see whether it worked. I guess it was OK but probably doesn't have similar strength levels to other 7-drops. Erratic Portal yeah, can be dropped for sure. Goblin, you're right, I'd probably still put in 1 copy to deal with some early relic shenanigans. 😂
Yeah, the no card draw part does hurt this deck when the removals don't get drawn, I do think I need to relook this part and see which card draws are better. You're right that I sort of overturned this against some very specific cards though.
Of course, when I have Sip in the deck I do try to mulligan for it, but it still won't show up about 50% of the time. In those 50% of the matches it can feel like drawing Sip is a dead draw later on. Might try it again sometime next time to see if I made some bad decisions this week 😂