I agree with Demars here completely. In the past few months there has been a good tournament scene in Detroit that supported 10 proxies. I own the power nine after three years of patient playing collecting and looking for the occasional deal on Ebay. One of the issues that i have found with Vintage is that you have to be patient. Unlimited proxies does spur new interest, but serious interest does require a investment of time and money as with any format.

It is interesting that you found a way to fit bazaars into a 5 color manabase. I find STP to be quite good in my 5 color build, yet Mox monkey is a needed add to keep the ammount of permanents on the opposing side to a minimal number. I do find that mindslaver is hard to play in Stax. How often was it used? Gratz and keep it up with some fresh ideas.

 I was the player playing the 5 color stax in the top eight. My name is Sean Bauer and i represent team BC from the Kalamazoo/ Battle Creek area of Michigan. It was a lot of fun playing in my first top eight after going x-3 drop in my last two Star City Chicago tournaments.
The philosophy of chalice being bad if you go second was not entirely true on saturday. I was on the draw 40% of the time saturday and it allowed me to properly set my chalice to the best number. Mox monkeys were house at the tournament, cleaning all stray moxes that somehow got through and ending games using the attack step.
Props to the guys from RIW, it was great to represent from Michigan. Props to all the guys playing in the top eight, it was great to see it be so well balanced. I am working on a tournamnet report right now and will post it soon once I catch up with school.

I think that the creature base is quite strong. 16 goblins including 4 piledrivers is more than enough to be effective. I do not think that a warchief is a good thing for this build, but I do think that 2 bang-gang commanders are a good thing for the deck. With a lackey first drop, a gang banger can make the game go quite quickly. I think that the lackeys should stay in the deck regardless, because we all love free spells in type 1.

As far as reanimate goes, I think that it is questionable. I like the idea of stealing other creatures that get thrown into the graveyard, but at some other points it is a dead card. TPS, Draw seven, and Belcher are all decks that play no creatures and makes this a dead 4 slot in you pre board matchup. With the matchup against dragon, you will be lucky to get one dragon, or laquatus, but there is usually one or more dragons in the grave, and at least two other kill conditions as caller of the call or sliver queen. I would put in more burn since it is good creature removal and it can go to the dome.

As far as this deck being like fish, it can't. Fish plays spells like cloud of faries, gim lavamancer, spiketail hatchling, ect. to get underneath a standstill wall that is backed up by counters. With the black elements in the decklist, you are merely disrupting the hand of your opponent. This gain in tempo must be exploited by beats, beats and more aggro beats. If you try to play a slower fish type tempo, you will loose since you have no card draw in the deck.

I like the deck idea. Demonic tutor is a must, itis restriced for a reason. I think that at least 2 null rods are necessary, even if there is low power. You only run two moxes, so the mana should not be a problem.

Imaging Management at Western Michigan University. I started out in Paper science and decided I like the printing aspect of the business better. I will basically end up working for a company that does pre-press, or printing and provide color management and graphics related problems in accordance to the type of process that is being run. Great thing about the job is that the demand never goes down. It is always fun to play with the cards and that I have a good comprehension on how they were made.

Name: Sean Bauer
  Location: Kalamazoo, MI
  Age: 23
  Occupation: Student at Western Michigan University. Imaging (printing) management. It is always fun to play with what my industry manufactures!
  Decks presently pimping: Foiled, fully powered goblin sligh; Some form of x/g land destruction ( I will make it work!! muhahaha); 5/3 split ( thorme, the deck is quite sweet); and FCG or fish, depends what kinda mood I am in.
   Power owned: U/G/R Mox, AR, Black lotus, LOA
   I just got started just as Onslaught came out. I had played about ten years prior to that, but that only lasted about three months. Kalamzoo has a great Type 1 foundation and quickly sucked me into and had me asking, "whats type 2?'.
   I play soccer, basketball, football, run, mountain bike and play paintball on the side. My biggest regret is playing paintball because the equipment depreciates, unlike power right now. I could have used that money for so many more cards.......

 Yes, and the person who forks it back wins the game. It still gets the storm count and everything.
      I still think that it needed to be unrestricted for a long time. Fork lost it's power a while ago. Fork is best used with your spells. Fork a Fireblast, good. :lol:

All I can say is that the Sligh(goblin, not Ankh) was good to me on sunday. Hey C, don't hate the playa, hate the game. It was a great atmospere to play in except for the biannual annoyance of the red head kid in the foundation tourney.
A almost fully powered sligh is still quite fun to play with. PM me if you want the list....
Props:
- Angel, for spliting for the LOA
- Bob, for having more pimped goblins than I
- Total abscence of trinisphere on Sunday
- Kurk, who duressed me in round three, taking a fireblast over a BEB while he was playing dragon.
-Price of Progress and Mox Monkey: MVP's of the deck so far
-Finding a Lotus for under 500 in fine condition on ebay last week.
-Overall, a great play atmosphere.

Slops:
-Hmmm, last name came up as Bauerhead for some strange reason. CPU must of malfunctioned,  :lol:  
-12 people showed up for a cash (250$ first prize) type two tourney. What, type two players don't like cash?

I like the deck. I have won a T1.5 tourney with a version of FCG. I think that artifact mutation is missing though. It recks house when you can remove the metalworker and get three tokens to smash face or power FC.
 :lol:

I personally think that this deck is an interesting idea yet it lacks in many areas. Tangle wire is too slow for sligh. Passive sligh gets you killed too often. Second of all 12 red mana sources are not enough. I run a sligh with 8 fetch, 7 mountains, 1 waste and one strip. A mox ruby and lotus petal are included. Any non-basic lands in your deck are viable targets for wastelands. One bad draw, and it's over. I think that pillage does not really belong in this deck. You only have 4 of them mainboard, and only 9 LD spells total (including 4 waste, 1 strip). The reason why Green LD is competitive is because it runs 16 LD spells or LD land. Kinda random thoughts to help, but I see this build to more 1.5 competitive than 1.

There were way too many Workshops at the tourney. I played the mono green land D, but have to work the build some more.