I really like this, flavor-wise. The weapon is so powerful that just having it around makes your minions become deadly. You don't need to be wielding it directly to have an effect -- its mere presence has an impact. Sort of a holy relic. On the other hand, it is so powerful that only you, the Planeswalker, can wield it (represented through tapping mana). For a weapon that has achieved relic status, its being both an artifact (because it is, of course, an artifact) and an enchantment (because it is powerful enough to warp reality around it) makes sense.

Updated OP with Shops breakdown.  The two Terra Nova Lists were a bit different than the original, but that was the closest approximation I could make. (See Brian Schlossberg's List)

I think it was unfair that two completely different Landstill decks got listed as "Landstill", but all the Martello and Espresso Shops players got listed as a specific archetype.  You can't drill down to different levels of details in a totally inconsistent way. 

I need to confirm with the store

Edit: Confirmed for the first saturday of September at $10 entry. I'll post a new thread shortly.

There was a lot of great competition at Gencon this year.  The list I ran, based on some innovations from Jesse Martin, was excellent.  It finished 9-0 in the prelims and 7-0 in the Swiss, before an ID into the finals. Paul defeated me in game three, hitting his one out to take the win.  It was great to play, and even better to see old friends and make new friends.

But I cannot speak of Gencon without mentioning theft. I had a bag of my Standard deck and binders stolen, losing about a thousand dollars. Many players lost once more. I was at a table where a player's legacy deck was stolen from in front of him. I heard that the police had estimated theft at over $8K before Saturday was over. I know many people who were victims of theft. And, sadly, this has cast a grim shadow on the weekend.

Therefore, I don't know if returning to Gencon next year makes sense. I love playing in the Eternal events there, and love the excellent competition. But the only reason I still have my Vintage deck is because I removed it from my backpack at the last minute Saturday morning. I almost had my Vintage deck stolen, and I will have second thoughts about risking my deck there again. Despite all of the awesome times otherwise, if I could somehow undo going, I would. And I assume this is true of the many other victims of theft over the event.

Game 1 of round two took 40 minutes.  Not an elbow drop.  I've never seen someone dredge so slowly.  You went to time almost every round.  Also, this happened:

MM turn: Cabal Therapy, sees null rod, hurkyl's recall, crucible of worlds.  Passes the turn.

I draw my card and pass.

MM does his thing, then goes to Dread Return his Iona.  I respond by Misdirecting Dread Return to Ichorid.

SHOCK AND AWE

I am considering taking this deck to the local weekly sanctioned tournament, but I have a couple questions. I have done some playtesting with the deck, but mostly against Tezzeret, MUD, Red Stax, Ichorid (kind of a joke), and Oath; however, most of the decks that will be at the tournament are not going to be powered and will be a bit random. Does anyone have tournament experience against random decks, or have you been playing in proxy tournaments with a more established metagame? I am thinking that the match-ups should be mostly good because of how quickly this deck can assemble a game ending combo with at least one piece of hand disruption, but any input would be good. Also, I know of at least one other person who will be bringing Dark Times to the event. Does anyone have experience in or tips for the mirror? On the bright side, I don't think anyone other than myself owns a playset of shops, so no MUD/Stax.

it's not a card that you use to guarantee finding the card you need, but it's actually more like a free draw seven or a Brainstorm: it smooths out card quality.

  It's too bad I didn't get to play against mono_white_unpowered_fountain _of_youth.dec all day.