There will be at least one full carload of people coming from Chicago proper for this, and possibly more from the suburbs.

Survival of the Fittest used to be fantastic in Type 4, and slightly incentivize people to draft a couple more creatures than they normally might, and also could fetch up your best creatures. With the power level and opportunity cost growing with each passing set, has Survival's time come and gone? It routinely is one of the last cards picked in our Rochester piles.

Discuss.

Fixed numbers on decklist, thank you for that info!

Current list/article now up here:
http://www.eternalcentral.com/type4update2015q4/

Nah man, we don't play that. Too busted.

I actually played this a couple of weeks ago at a board gaming get together, and it's much different than Magic. There are no responses allowed. You just play your cards out, so it requires different lines of thinking, but is pretty fun and fast, and seems to have lots of replayability (and is very cheap!).

I'll have my updated stack/spreadsheet in an article on EC early next week hopefully. I'm in the middle of updating it now for past couple years' worth of cards.

I don't think you are fully understanding how these decks and matchups play out. If you want to familiarize yourself with the Depths plan more, these are essential reading before you "theorycraft" or anything else:
Adam Pierce aka AJFirecracker aka kingneckbeard's introduction here: http://www.eternalcentral.com/the-dredge-of-glory-an-introduction-to-manaless-dredge-in-vintage/
Adam Pierce aka AJFirecracker aka kingneckbeard's continuing discussion here: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=46708.60
Lance Ballester aka vaughbro's explanation and tournament report here: http://blackmagicgaming.com/dr-edges-lab-report/

Trying to jam a bunch of Serenity and other anti-hate cards into the deck doesn't make much sense, when the entire point of the Depths transformation/alternate plan of attack is by dedicating so many slots to obviating the hate entirely to begin with.

I have tested and played numerous versions of these decks over the past few months leading up to Vintage Champs, and it was one of the 2 decks I brought to Vintage Champs to play. Riftstone Portal is decent in the deck, but I certainly didn't think it merited being a 4-of (unless you insist on doing stuff like casting Serenity). It is most useful as a 1-2 of usually, to help facilitate the land heavy draws post-board where you have a bunch of lands that don't produce mana (ie. multiple Bazaars + a Depths), and also to help facilitate casting Life from the Loam if you go that direction (I found 2 to be the optimal number in the various versions I tested). Each additional Riftstone Portal beyond the first isn't dead, because it can just be played normally to tap for mana, but it usually came down to opportunity cost in deck construction. By playing more Portals you have to necessarily play fewer Petrified Fields, Urborgs, Cavern of Souls (if you have the LabMan plan), etc.

I last played Boseiju earlier this year as a 1-of in Rector Omniscience, because there were a lot of good spells to cast with it (1 Tinker, 1 Flash, 3-4 Show and Tell, 1-4 Gifts Ungiven, 1 Yawgmoth's Will, 1 Merchant Scroll, 1 Demonic Tutor, delve spells, etc.). It was pretty good in that deck, and a second was in my sideboard. Boseiju was also played as a 1 or 2-of in the Vintage Super League in the OmniOath deck, because it can make Show and Tell uncounterable (which was a 4 of in that deck), not to mention spells like Dig Through Time (which was also a 4 of in that deck).

The only tension in basing a deck around Boseiju that you might encounter is the fact that Boseiju is Legendary, comes into play tapped, and doesn't produce colored mana (the latter is the reason I only played it as a 1-of main in Omnisience). This leads you to playing fewer Boseijus, which is turn creates less incentive to design a deck entirely based around Boseiju. I think the first order of business is figuring out what game-breaking spells you are hoping to resolve (justifying Boseiju's inclusion in a deck) and then building outwards around that, taking into consideration the colorless mana issue. Now that Thirst for Knowledge is unrestricted again, it may be worth playing those partly because it's a good card, partly because you can cast it uncounterably with Boseiju, and partly because you can use it to pitch superfluous copies of Boseiju that you'll inevitably draw if you play more than 2 main deck. Dack Fayden may also be a consideration for those reason (minus the uncounterable angle).

Living Wish does seem decent if you are in to green, but then that pushes you more to the Lands.dec plan, and less towards a stream of otherwise broken cards that make Vintage rest on a knife's edge.

Well I have the 4 German Foil Thirst for Knowledges set aside for you for when you want to add them to your Workshop deck. I hear there are a lot of fans of 7/10 Split and The Gilded Claw.

Is this post a joke, or no? I can't tell if you're serious or not. You want to play a deck based around Boseiju, so you're...going to jam it full of underpowered lands? Wouldn't logic dictate that you jam your deck full of cards that Boseiju casts uncounterably, like the most broken Instants and Sorceries with at least 1 colorless mana in the casting cost? Apologies if I missed the joke, but I just don't get it.

I think you're going to see a significant merging of Grixis decks that incorporate Thirst, Key-Vault, Notion Thief, and Dack Fayden. Thoughtcast, Tezzeret the Seeker, Repeal, Ancient Grudge, and Goblin Welder optional. There are tons of options, and tons of overlap, which is why it's difficult to predict exactly what one player or team is playtesting, but rest assured, tons of people are working on decks of this basic framework, and you can expect to see these strategies well represented in Top 8's over the next few months.

Hangarback provides another cheap but flexible and powerful threat in Vintage, and fares very well against Ingot Chewers and especially the mirror. This is why you'll notice a number of lists pair Hangarback with Arcbound Ravager in particular, as these tactics are very good in the mirror (being more aggressive, rather than wasting space on more lock componentry), as well as being very good against both Dack Fayden and Ingot Chewer (Arcbound Ravager enable lots of tricks in particular).

The reason it hasn't caught on in Legacy is because Legacy lacks a lot of those same threats and lines of play you commonly see in Vintage. Rarely is anyone trying to steal your threats with Dack Fayden in Legacy (outside of some of the Ancient Tomb-based Tezzeret decks). Rarely will you run into the artifact mirror in Legacy. You're more likely to play against multi-color Delver decks or Miracles in Legacy, which is why it's much better to just jam Forgemaster + Wurmcoil + multiple Sundering Titans in nearly every Ancient Tomb-based Legacy artifact deck. The cards you'll square off against and the lines of play you're likely to see are just much different, which necessitates a choice of different threats.

Do you guys realize that Skeletal Scrying still exists, and is still legal?

I'm well aware that Therapy could disrupt this, or any other line, but you have to play to your best outs. If he has blind Therapy for Tendrils, of double Therapy for example, you just lose immediately anyway, so I think giving yourself the best deterministic play possible is the correct way to proceed. If he's only able to blind Therapy once I think it's more likely to mirror a previous play and blind Therapy something like Dark Ritual, or barring that, something from either Black Lotus/Yawgmoth's Will/Chain of Vapor triumvirate.

Regarding the scenarios section, discussing Hornung vs. Duke G3 (match available here on YouTube), you guys both missed the obvious easy kill for Reid, even in light of Mark's Leyline of the Void in play. Well, obvious to me at least upon seeing the board/hand. After resolving Timetwister, Reid draws:
Sol Ring
Mana Vault
Badlands
Tendrils of Agony
Wheel of Fortune
Memory Jar
Vampiric Tutor

His board is:
Underground Sea (tapped)
Mox Sapphire (tapped)
Lotus Petal (untapped)
Chrome Mox (no imprint)

He has 1 black mana floating. Rather than screwing around with Yawgmoth's Bargain or Mind's Desire, Reid should have just used the remaining black mana floating to cast Vampiric Tutor for Hurkyl's Recall. To our other readers/listeners, can you find the deterministic kill?
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Use the floating black mana to cast Vampiric Tutor for Hurkyl's Recall. Untap, and draw Hurkyl's Recall. Play Badlands, and tap it to cast Sol Ring (Storm 1), and tap Sol Ring to cast Mana Vault (Storm 2), floating 1 colorless mana. Tap Mana Vault to float 4 colorless mana total, then tap Mox Sapphire (U4) to cast Hurkyl's Recall (Storm 3), floating 3 colorless mana. Play Lotus Petal (Storm 4), Sol Ring (Storm 5, 2 colorless mana floating), Mana Vault (Storm 6, 1 colorless mana floating), Mox Sapphire (Storm 7), and Chrome Mox (Storm 8, imprint Wheel of Fortune if you wish). Tap Sol Ring and Mana Vault for 5 colorless to cast Memory Jar (Storm 9, 1 colorless floating still). Tap Mox Sapphire (U), Underground Sea (B), sacrifice Lotus Petal (B), and tap Chrome Mox (R) for RUBB+1 colorless and cast Tendrils of Agony (Storm 10, still had a mana floating). Game Blouses.

You mentioned Hurkyl's in regards to pumping up the storm count for this massive Desire + Time Walk junk, but Hurkyl's was the answer for generating a large enough storm count to simply ignore the Leyline of the Void in play. It looks like Reid missed that line as well.

Chris, congrats on the performance. I was happy to see you win the budget top prize with this, as I love the cards Standstill and Bitterblossom, and your decklist stuck out to me while writing up the Champs report.

Some additional cards to consider:
Thoughtseize - Not as dead against Workshops as the Flusterstorm/Misstep/Spell Pierce/Pyroblast group, and extremely potent for the mana cost in every format. It also ever-so-slightly reduces need for targeted removal against aggro-control, in that you can pre-emptively jack their Mentor/Confidant/etc.
Terminate - Instant speed targeted removal that gets around Chalice @ 1 from Workshops.
Dreadbore - Don't laugh, but this card is actually decent, as it gets around Chalice @ 1, and can be brought in against opposing planeswalker control decks. As a 1 or 2-of it's been pretty good for me out of various sideboards as a catch-all answer that you probably won't love, but will rarely hate. 
Yixlid Jailer - Another anti-Dredge option to further help you mix up the cards they need to answer post-board; often best as a 1 or 2-of for this vary reason (also something you can tutor for if need be).

Why did you hate Demonic Tutor specifically? That's basically the best black card that's legal in Vintage (apologies to Yawgmoth's Will), so I'm wondering what about it didn't work for your deck in testing.

Also, what decks or situations did you lose against, or have trouble with at Champs? That might help us better tailor the deck moving forward.

Thank you very much. I'm glad some people are enjoying it.

Further updating this, we've just posted our EC Old School 93-94 tournament report, with decklists and tons of photos:
http://www.eternalcentral.com/oldschoolew2015/

More updates to come as we have time this week.

We've just added a new post on EC with Saturday Prelim Top 8 Playoff and Decklists:
http://www.eternalcentral.com/vintage-champs-2015-saturday-prelim-decklists-and-top-8-playoff/

Enjoy!

Please add me as a tournament organizer. I will be balling out of control organizing more tournaments (Old School and Vintage) in the future. Thank you in advance.

Full Members should be able to post as a TO, but I have added TO to your account. -Godder

Combining the BUG lists was intentional. There are so many variations based on card inclusion of the player's choice that I felt it best to group them, and let people check out the decklists individually (once more are up). That, and there already being dozens of other sub-archetypes already listed, drove the choice to group some of the decks as such.


Rich, if you wouldn't mind emailing me with spreadsheet (or link to Google doc) once that is done, I can add it to the report as well. Everything we have is just in generic text, so would be nice to have more options for people.

If you folks see anything else that can be added please let me know via reply here, PM, or email to support@eternalcentral.com.

EDIT: We now have recreated all of the info from the Vintage Champs Prelim on Saturday, and will be doing a separate post later tonight on EC with Top 8 decklists and Top 8 playoff bracket.

Loved this deck Hrisihi. It was easily the coolest deck I played against at NYSE 3.

Very large post on EC now live, and constantly being updated:
http://www.eternalcentral.com/vintagechamps2015coverage/

Full metagame breakdown (including what everybody played, by final standings and name), as well as some pie charts to show Top 8/Top 32/Top 64 penetration of large archetypes, a video roundup, and more.

Please let us know what you'd like to see added, and if you have any ideas for more graphs you'd like to see. We'll begin fleshing out more decklists and adding them to that page as time allows over the next week or two (after some other reports are edited, and the Old School Tournament coverage goes up). As always, if you notice any errors please contact us so we can get them fixed. Thanks!

EDIT: We've just added a new post on EC with Saturday Prelim Top 8 Playoff and Decklists:
http://www.eternalcentral.com/vintage-champs-2015-saturday-prelim-decklists-and-top-8-playoff/

EDIT2: We've just added the EC Old School 93-94 tournament report with decklists and photos:
http://www.eternalcentral.com/oldschoolew2015/

Here is the archived broadcast (starts with Legacy Champs Top 8, then moves into Vintage Champs coverage the rest of the day):
http://www.twitch.tv/cardtitan/v/12371480

From the pictures you linked, here is what I see in pics:
Cyrille Defoucand
1 Regrowth
1 Channel
1 Disintegrate
1 Birds of Paradise
2 Kird Ape
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Bayou
1 City of Brass
1 Volcanic Island
1 Taiga
1 Diamond Valley or City of Brass

Dominic Symens (lost to Zak Dolan in semifinals)
Animate Dead or Sacrifice on bottom of deck while shuffling
1 Mox Jet
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Tropical Island

Not that impressive, when you compare against the field. There were numerous decks sporting the alleged 'Best Draw Engine in Vintage,' which leaves like 18-19 mana sources for your deck, which then leaves you naturally vulnerable to good Workshop pilots. These are great against other blue decks, and not that great against decks that cast Chalice of the Void for 1, play Wasteland, and then prevent you from playing half of your deck between Chalice and a bunch of Sphere effects. There were also 2 Charbelcher decks, which have a very tough time beating Workshops on the draw. Workshops were a good call for that metagame, and I'm disappointed I didn't sleeve them up myself for that particular field.

As Randy, LSV, and others originally stated in or before VSL Season 1, they wanted some actual stakes to play for, besides just bragging rights. Many of the players have to balance preparation for GP/PT formats with their prep for VSL, so I think the P9 gave them more incentive to win, and not getting booted for being last place also gave people towards the bottom of the standings continued incentive each week. I thought it seemed like a very good setup initially. We'll see how it unfolds in the future as a spectator event, especially with a lot of non-VSL Eternal format MTGO players having already jumped the boat (myself included).

It was indeed supported (in a very miniscule way), in that Randy convinced WotC to provide a set of Foil Power 9 on MTGO to the winner each season. Randy and Shotgun Lotus have basically done everything else themselves the rest of the time.

Awesome write up as always Guillem. Thanks!

Just got a few quotes the past 24 hours, and sold off my collection today to Cardhoarder, who were a few hundred dollars higher than MTGOTraders in this instance, and awesome to work with. Now $7800 richer.