Well it has been a long time since I last posted anywhere about magic maybe 4 to 5 years and about as long for my tournament attendance aswell. I do try to read about vintage and also I try very hard to "corrupt" the newbies into playing older cards to open their eyes to what is out there.  So Vintage is at a bit of a crossroads right now and we as a community are trying to figure out how to fix it. Proxies seem to kinda hurt / help the cause depending on where you are at, Wizards doesn't seem to care about tournament support, and everyone is bummed about lower turnouts.

The most interesting time I can remember was around the 8th edition release before mirrodin. Alot of rumors were circulating along with artwork for a lotus and a mox. People in my area were going insane because they thought the power cards were getting reprinted with new artwork and now there would be foil versions. We are talking people who had been playing forever and had multiple sets of power and who were excited about buying new cards to nab "the new versions of power". Sadly the 10th anniversay of magic wasn't that awsome lol, but it raises an interesting point, why not reprint some of the old cards?

This may solve several issues really
1. New reprints at some rarity in new magic sets. I and most people would probably buy new magic products if such a thing happened.
2. people unpowered will now have a chance to grab power cards and bring fresh players to the format. Maybe even sanctioned tournaments.
3. Like any magic card price rarly drops that much upon reprinting as long as its not reprinted to death. 1 reprinting wouldn't kill prices.

Logically this would have to happen eventually if Wizards gave any thought toward vintage. After all we are fightiing to nab cards that were printed 14 to 15 years ago that were in limited printings by todays standards and have by luck survived natural disasters, ex- girlfriends and soda spills.

I have been reading this thread so far and was wondering if u had considered  Rootwater Thief for your deck. This would allow u to keep the deck U/R so u can have access to the artifact and creature removal, would also allow for a less fragile mana base, against oath or any other deck for that matter would allow u to remove key cards from your opponents deck and u can give it an evasion ability if needed. If u feel that this may be to slow for your meta then i apologize for wasting your time.