Sins of the Past is functionally identical and costs 4BB. So this is a real upgrade.

This has to be compared to Ywill effects, and it does very unfavorably.

The gravehate effect is useless at this cost.
Assuming a stocked graveyard it still is situational as you will not be able to cast every spell (colours).
It does not cheat mana.

This has to be at 3-4 cmc to be even considered for serious play.

Repeal could come back with this guy. Could try to build around with spellbombs, sensei, repeal. But this is probably just cute.

While it has obvious applications in burn lists, I think it will be far stronger in UWx control decks, like Angels or Bomber. For the low price of 2W you get a guy who will turn all the fast mana and control cards into threats and gum up the board vs aggro. This guy is easily on the powerlevel of dack fayden.

This guy seems custom-made for grixis welder lists. As a 1-of he will likely join U/R landstill next to jace and ral.
Humans and Oath are on the rise, but it would be crazy to overlook a 3 mana PW with 2 relevant abilities, each for another matchup. I'll enjoy plopping this into play turn 1 now and then

For what it is worth: this empowers funeral/piracy charm or (worse) those discard spellbombs to lock out their draw step and randomly gain value.

What brianpk80 said:
This is really good in a dedicated control deck, like landstill. I think you underestimate the +1 ability greatly - it generates mana and limits the opponent. U/r/x just got a wonderful tool/finisher besides Jace.

A borderline case would be triggering Goblin Lackey with the 3rd ability.

I'd prefer if you to not talk about chess, cause you seem to not know alot about it.

Just some facts:
- The starting position of chess is equal. Can't be said about a magic match with different decks.
- Chess does not include probabilities.
- Even if there are sometimes more than one more or less equal possibilities, playing to beat "expected lines of play" is foolish and easily refuted. Do not confuse with actually preparing for expected openings or opponents, which is mostly done on top of ones repetoire. To compare openings to a metagame is equally foolish, since you have to expect any and every (serious) opening if you play at a tournament, not just big blue or dredge.
- In addition to that, top players mostly look for positions which aren't analyzed to death yet and let me tell you something, their number is shrinking fast.
- A good example is magnus carlsen: a great factor  of his success is not fancy play, or overhwelming memorization of openings, no it is the ability to actually squeeze out even tiniest advantages in apparently "easy" or "equal" positions, often endgames.

If you have any doubts about my qualification I'd be more than happy to play realtime blitzchess vs you.

It is now the Precombat Main Phase
coldcrow taps Mishra's Workshop
coldcrow taps Basalt Monolith
coldcrow taps Fellwar Stone
coldcrow taps Island
coldcrow taps Island
coldcrow plays Upheaval from Hand
<coldcrow> so?
<.> so
<coldcrow> i floated 3
<coldcrow> workshop mana
<.> dont knwo ya cards, copied decknoobie
<System> Player Lost

I am not sure if it can fit in, but considering the mana requirements of the deck would 4 Dark Ritual be an option? Would ease the casting of Plagiarize alot and the card investment is neglible with such a huge CA engine. It would also be a TFK if they counter the ritual and you can denial it.

Maybe -1 Scrying, -1 TFK, -1 Fact, -1 Petal

I haven't much experience with Vintage though so this is just a humble suggestion.

In my opinion the strength of Aggro-MUD is the extreme linearity in lock pieces and the high win percentage if on the play. In case it is on the draw the linear structure of the deck will ensure punishment of any subpar mulligans of the opponent.

On a side note Thorn of Amethyst also profits from running Juggernauts over Stack.

With Haakon and Basal Sliver in play, you can endlessly play and sacrifice the Changeling, generating gravestorm. that would make it a 4 card combo with Ordeal, which is very likely not even remotely competetive.

Oh. Well on a second a thought it is actually a rather small issue, since you can dump them into the exiled zone. While I am at it reporting "issues" :

the staple manipulation handling could be a bit improved. It is easy to accidentally drag a card out of the boundary of the subwindow and adding it to your hand/anywhere.
Also a "cloning" function would be a nice shortcut for some game actions.

Just stumbled over an issue: Tokens still show up in another zone than the "battlefield". They should get properly removed.

I am no vintage expert, but to me it is pretty obvious why Jace is good. Alot of the reasons he is so have been said already.

In Oath he is comparable to Necro in TPS, with the added benefit of being a wincon by itself and unsummon in a pinch.

A related situation:

I have Baneslayer Angel, the opponent Keiga, Tide Star in play. When Keiga is put into the graveyard somehow, can the players use its ability to gain control of the Angel?
As far as I understand, not.

Wouldn't that go very well with meadbert's Rootmaze Tyrant Oath? I am not sure if there is space in the deck for it; also other Oath variants seem to be strong too.
Some kind of Rootmaze/Stasis deck would also be possible, although it would need 3 pieces for the hardlock.

I am just curious but how many decks can deal with infinite life these days? This is by no means a proposal for a serious deck, but Lifegift would be an easy infinite life synergy with Lotus Cobra and Oboro, enabling you to ignore almost all winconditions in the meta.

PS: If you could play infinite lands each turn. Sorry I totally forgot the 1 land rule.

This would have a major contender in octgn. www.octgn.net
Though this has not central server functionality and is just a tcg simulator.

Fairly simple situation: Nettlevine Blight triggers at beginning of end step. Do I have to choose a new object for attaching the aura immediately or upon resolution? If the former would be the case I could kill Nettlevine by giving Pro Black to the creature being in question.

Exactly. That is one of the real reasons for these changes. Changing the game rules to provide new design space. That is why I am a bit angry at the official explanation because it is the usual marketing bullcrap. But actually that is to be expected of a quite large company owned by an even larger one.

I won't even comment on how I dislike those changes.

I was wondering why a deck dedicated to a restricted card is running only 2 direct tutors for it. also I question the ability to "dig" for vault while spending 6 mana per turn to use capsize repeatedly. Basically there are only 6 cards in this deck dealing with threats (FoW,overcosted boomerang) while there are two 2+ card combos with no direct tutors for them. All other means of searching are either dig or draw 7. Means it will rely totally on the gamble. I understand that this is a budget (yours) deck, but why do you insist on it being tournament worthy?