These could be awful idea's, just putting it out there as food for thought.

Ideas for replacing leyline:

3 Cabal Therapy
2 Abyssal Persecutor / Black Fatty

I've been wanting to add Cabal Therapy to this deck for a while because it is such a great card and fits really well into this deck.  You almost always know half your opponents hand so it functionally is a Thoughtseize without having to pay 2 life.  It double's as a way to get rid of Abyssal Persecutor.  I have no tested this AT ALL so 6 ways to kill your own creature (2 edict, 3 cabal, 1 phyrexian tower) may not be enough).   

5 Equipment

Hexmage has first strike, if only she had a little more beef...Loxodon Warhammer, any Sword of ___ and ___, Darksteel Plate just off the top of my head.  You could also put these on confidant.

You are right, I am forgetting something.

I played this over the past weekend at Pandemonium vintage for duals tournament.  Quick break down for my matches:

First Match was against dredge.  Stone un-losable match up. 2-0.

Second match was against storm ETW.  Lost 0-2.  First game I went for helmline combo to win without knowing what his hand was and he bounced my leyline.  Stuck around for a little while and then lost to goblins.  Second game He opened with two pithing needles, one on hexmage, one on helm of obedience.  Tough game.

Third match I lost 1-2 to shops.  I forget the order of games, but one game I won when my opponent thought he could duplicant my Marit Lage.  The other he opened up with some spheres and I never recovered.  Third game was close and in a complicated stack of me wastelanding his wasteland to activating hexmage to have it dismembered (something like that) but I never got another hexmage on board.

4th round bye.

At this point I'm 2-2 and sitting in 8th due to the fact of the bye and my 2 losses being "quality" losses.

5th round lost 0-2 to shops.  He opened up quickly first game with spheres and beaters and I never recovered.  Second game he plays phyrexian revoker and some lands and I get down a confidant, mox, lotus petal, lands and have total board control.  I play another confidant and work up a strip lock with crucible and ghost quarter and wipe his revoker with snuff out and edict myself to rid myself of a confidant.  I wiped his whole board but drew into meaningless wastelands and other stuff.  Probably go through about half my deck and never see a hexmage or depths.  I played a hex parasite somewhere in there.  My own confidant ends up killing me since I was sitting at 3 life and I reveal and emissary of despair (one of three cards with 3cc in a stack of about 30 cards, it was just that kind of day) on the turn I was about to swing for lethal damage.

Not unhappy with how the deck ran, just never really "drew broken", but hey, what can you do.  I also would advise never cutting helmline,

EE or hemline off the top of my head

Don't sweat the report, going undefeated in the first round says enough by itself haha.  I just wanted to get a general idea of how the deck ran, and evidently it went well.  It also probably means you were probably pretty happy with all your card selections.  Out of curiosty, what was that turn 3 play?

2nd_lawl, I noticed you made T8 in blue bell about a month ago.  Any chance of a tournament report or chronicling how you lost some games if you remember?  

Definitely in!

Also, why phyrexian revoker over pithing needle? Artifact creatures are some of the most vulnerable things in the game, and this deck doesn't win from beats (one swing from a 20/20 will do).  Although hex parasite seems like an almost auto include: takes counters from DD, planeswalkers, and MUD artifacts (the worst match up).

Seems like theres been a lack of Dark Times lately, is it because no one is playing it or it just cant beat what is in the current meta?

I'm from out of state potentially thinking about trying to attend this.  Can someone from the area possibly inform me about any public transportation going near this?  Thanks.