I've got a registered version of Workstation, so I use its proxy printing feature.  Even with just the trial version you can still do it, it just limits you to one page at a time I think.  If you've got Workstation with the high-quality pictures, it makes some pretty good proxies.  It sure beats Sharpie on a Plains for recognizability, but it can be a bit of a pain to cut up all the pages if you're proxying full decks or large chunks of them for testing purposes.

Today's daily decklist on wizards.com is a 5color goodstuff decklist that looks really fun.  It takes a bit of a different approach than your deck, but I thought you might like to see it anyway:
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/410

This was another great article.  The style was great and it was filled with all sorts of interesting nuggets of information around different possible lines of play.  Keep up the good work!

Fair enough, thanks for the response.  Even with the small cards this is still an awesome program.

Just downloaded this and it's really cool!  Thanks for taking the time to put it together.  The on-the-fly card art downloading is awesome, so much easier than having to manually download pictures for each new set that comes out for MWS.  Haven't played any games with it yet, but I'm impressed with what I've seen so far.

EDIT:  One thing, when I go to play a game, the black space takes up a lot of the screen making it kind of hard to see which card is which without mousing over it to get the zoomed in view.  Here's what it looks like for me: http://i41.tinypic.com/1zxbfro.jpg.  Is there any way to reduce the black space?  Thanks!

I heard good things from goober about your last tourney, so if this was on Sunday I'd be there to watch and hang out, but sadly Saturday is not possible.  I'd like to make it down to one some time, so everybody show up so Dave can keep having these!

Balls, that's the article I was looking for...no wonder I couldn't find it on Star City.

Haha, yeah it's definitely a bit weird.  My group of friends in college took a bit more casual approach to it than described in the article - we never drafted, we just split up the big stack into roughly equal stacks for each person and just went at it.  We proxied most of our stack too, since we didn't want to spend the kind of money necessary to really build one completely, it's just a casual format anyway, it doesn't really matter.

This article should be a good place to start:

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/10197_Type_4_A_Way_To_Enjoy_Magic_Again_Part_I.html

I don't post here very much any more, but I read most of your articles and this one was exceptionally great and wanted to give you props.  It took me a little over half an hour I think, over the course of the morning, and I really enjoyed it.  Your explanation of all the decisions you made in game and regarding mulligan decisions were thorough as always.  It's always good to see the perspective of someone much better at this game than myself, so I can evaluate weaknesses in my own game.  The little note about the misconceptions about Vintage was very well said too.  Getting to see another example of your five-step deckbuilding method was great - I love how Lightning Bolt ended up in the deck, it was something I really didn't expect to see in a Vintage deck again.  Kudos, keep up the good work!

Official confirmation of Vintage cards in Zendikar packs:
http://www.mananation.com/judges-list-confirms-zendikar-treasure/

Another update on the "old cards in Zendikar packs" thing:
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=186720

Seems very real.  Pretty exciting if you ask me.

Foil Urza's Saga basic lands are a cool little prize.  They look awesome and can be found pretty cheap on eBay.

You can find it here: http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/vintage/17522_So_Many_Insane_Plays_The_Hottest_Deck_in_Vintage_GWB_Beatdown_and_Other_Vintage_Notes.html
There's even a thread on it right here in Vintage Open.

Nobody's hoping to "dethrone" Drain decks and replace them with something else.  The hope is to make other decks competitive enough that they can put up some kind of a fight where they cannot, or at least are not, currently.  Assuming a broken Balance deck does not arise, 5C Stax would hopefully be strengthened enough to compete for more top 8's and tournament wins.

Nevermind, ignore me.

Exactly.  I just started following this format again after a long layoff and looking at the top 4's and top 8's of tournaments in my area, the northeast, makes me very uninterested in starting to play again.  The format just doesn't seem particularly fun right now with one deck on top and nothing really able to challenge it.  Unrestricted Balance would at least shake things up and give us a chance at building something that can hang with the top Drain deck in the format.  Is unrestricting Balance the only way to effect this change?  No, probably not, but it's certainly a very efficient change that can easily be undone if it doesn't have the desired effect on the metagame.

The theory behind unrestricted Library being beneficial to other decks is that with the availability of 4x Library, Drain players will either have to completely retool and weaken their manabases in order to play both Libraries and Drains, or significantly weaken their sideboards in other matchups to make room for Libraries for the mirror matchup.  I don't think I like the idea, but that's the theory behind it.

That's the intended result though, some Drain players drop their Drains and pick up Shops instead.  Whether or not this is good for Fish is debatable, but it would probably be a good thing for Ichorid, and voila, we have a fairly diverse metagame.  If unrestricting Balance is too extreme in your view, then what can be done to bring down Drain's dominance?  And don't say "build a better Fish deck" because Fish has had plenty of time to adapt and still isn't putting up results.

What decks bring in Massacre, Pyroclasm and Threads?  Drain decks (for the most part).  A singleton Balance is currently available to these decks, but sees no play.  I would argue that very few Drain players would take the opportunity to play 4x Balance maindeck.  The most likely deck to pack 4x Balance would be 5c Stax, as Steve has said.  If Stax makes a comeback on the back of Balance, then Drain decks have to deal with Stax much more so than it does now, opening the door for Fish to prey on Drains better than they can now.  It's a little weird, but it's impossible to say that 4x Balance would absolutely eliminate Fish from the metagame.

What would you do regarding the restricted list to make Fish "have a chance to keep drains in check"?  It already has a pretty hard time of that with some of the best artifact and mana denial there is and there's not really anything on the restricted list that could come off and immediately help a Fish deck beat Drains.  Short of Wizards printing something really really good for Fish, I don't think it has that much of a shot at beating Drains consistently any more if it can't do it already.  Unrestricting Balance would do little to change that situation.

Fish isn't exactly doing its job of keeping Mana Drain decks from dominating, so the argument that unrestricted Balance wrecks Fish, and could potentially used to bolster Mana Drain decks, doesn't make much sense.

No, the idea is that even when you're playing against a deck specifically designed to hate out your Tez deck, powered or not, you still have over a 50% win rate.  A hate deck should, by definition, totally wreck the deck it is designed to hate out.  The 8x Duress effect 8x Rod/Chalice deck you're testing against still doesn't do that, even though those are all cards you want to run to hate out Tez.

I've just played a few games with this deck on Workstation, just this deck against Tezzeret, both decks piloted by me.  Tez won handily in every game.  I'm by no means an expert with Tez or this deck, so it's probably a fair test.  My sample size is pretty small, I'm sure this deck could beat Tez every now and then, but I don't think it could win consistently.  The biggest problem with Vial, and this whole deck in general, is just that it is way too slow.  If your first turn is Savannah -> Vial, a fair number of Tez hands will just be able to win before the Vial even comes online.  

Sure, Mindcensor can slow down Tez...for a turn.  That might be enough for you to beat for the kill, but more often than not I'm sure it would just be a speed bump.

Chalice at 0 would definitely be a good play, but I think trying to cast it for 1 or 2 is going to be met with either a Mana Drain, fueling a big turn, or bounce, or simply ignoring it and going for the Tinker route instead.

Canonist, Shusher and Pridemage are all fine dudes.

Okay, enough critiquing.  How do I think this deck could be improved?  I'd start with the Vials, they're best when you can follow them up with either some sort of disruption the following turn.  This deck is likely to follow up a 1st turn Vial with either nothing, waiting for Vial to come online, or a creature that's likely to run right into a Force/Drain (unless it's Shusher, of course).  That's right, I'm assuming Vial isn't important enough for the Tez player to counter.  If you're going to insist on playing Vial, I'd think about adding some Duresses or Thoughtsiezes so you can follow up the Vial with a relevant play the following turn.  If I were to remove the Vials, I would do so with Null Rods, card for card.  The rest of the deck might need some tweaking as well if that change is made, and to be honest, I think the endpoint would be Steve's GW deck he just wrote about.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, I hope some of them were helpful.

That guy "Vintage" that told Smmenen he was "banned" just said the same thing to me, except his name is "Sift" now.  I cracked a fetch, left plenty of time for him to respond, searched my library and he just went "????, cheating", said I was banned and left the game.  I was even using phases like he asked .

I posted this in another thread, but there's at least one red card that answers the Leviathan once it's in play -- Pulverize.  It's probably a horrible solution, and I agree that the plan should be to stop Tinker in the first place with more Red Blasts and Pyroblasts, but if you absolutely need a solution to a resolved Tinker, it's an option.

Fires of Yavimaya.  First turn BoP, second turn Fires is one of my all time favorite game openings.  Follow it up with fattie after fattie and just win.

I think you're making a mistake by adding artifact lands, Vault/Key, and Thoughtcasts to meadbert's original list.  You're just opening yourself up to get blown out by an early Null Rod.  Wasteland is also very strong against this deck, acting as Strip Mine.  meadbert's original list may not be optimal or even tournament-worthy, but I think you're taking it a number of steps in the wrong direction with these changes.

EDIT: I should caveat my opinion by saying that your changes could work, but only if you were certain that the metagame you were playing in was very light on Null Rod strategies.

I noticed that this article had gone free a day or two ago and went through and read the whole thing.  As someone who is consdering getting back into the format, a brief update as to what's good and what's not as good as it used to be was tremendously helpful.  The decklists provided were a good starting point for testing, too.

That's just patently untrue.  There's plenty of untargeted answers.  Search the Gatherer for "destroy all artifacts" and you'll find plenty of solutions to Inkwell Leviathan that might happen to help in other situations as well.  For instance, Serenity, Seeds of Innocence, and Pulverize.  I'm in no situation to say whether or not those cards are any good, but they're on-color untargeted answers to Inkwell Leviathan.  They also happen to be useful in the Stax matchup, but they're not optimal there.