It's possible, but unlikely that I'll be joining in.  I don't like playing Magic online in the first place, and while getting to play Vintage more regularly would be appealing, I don't know that it's enough to get me to buy my collection a second time.  Now, if they somehow take action to make it no more expensive to construct a MODOVintage deck than a Standard deck, I may reconsider, but I doubt that's going to be the case.

First off, sorry for your loss OP.

With the growing concern of theft at major events and a couple close calls with my cards, I specifically asked my renter's insurance provider if my collection was covered completely under my policy.  Even though my other possessions are covered completely, there were loss limits on certain categories of items.  I was told my cards would be considered under philatelic items (i.e. stamp collections) and that the loss limit was $1,000.  They did offer additional coverage, but trading cards weren't considered a coverable category (although stamp collections were, for some reason).

Not liking the answers I was hearing, I went with a company that specializes in collectibles.  I found at least two of them that specifically covered trading cards: American Collectors Insurance and Collectibles Insurance Services.  The premium from either for $20k of coverage was ~$120 a year and well worth the additional peace of mind.  No appraisal required, but they did require photo proof of any single item over a certain limit.  American Collectors also has an online interface that lets me upload inventories and photos for collection tracking which I found to be useful.

Hope everything works out for you in the end.  For everyone else, I recommend you specifically ask your insurance company if your cards are covered and for how much.

It was shocking for all of us. Since quitting Vintage, I kinda fell out of touch with Rudy, but I'm told that it completely blindsided even those of us who knew of his medical condition.

I understood that a service for Rudy will be held this Monday (July 9th) at 14:30 in the Crematorium in Heeze (near Eindhoven). It will be the most horrible kind of reunion.

I have never cast scion in my games...Shivan Hellkite has lit all my opponents on fire so far.

When you choose Snapcaster's target, you don't have to specify a side of the split card that you're targeting?  Ie. You can target the split card, wait a phase or two, then decide which side to play?

Nix is a hard counter against Gush, Force, Misstep, Moxes, Chalice. It actually seems pretty well positioned right now.

Whoops.   I'd cut a Clique, then.

Clique was OFTEN better than Dark Confidant.  I'm huge on the card.   

I'll tell you one of those:

Against Cat Stax, you want to bring in 2 Lightning Bolt, Mountain, 1 Ancient Grudge, and 2 Ingot Chewer.

I believe I just swapped out 4 Spell Pierce and 2 Vendillion Clique.  

Against Dredge, I didn't bring in Chewer -- I just bring in the six specific anti Dredge cards, and take out 3 Trygon Predator, 2 Clique and one other card. 

So if you add a Bayou you could potentially drop Red altogether and then use Dark Rituals instead of Grim Monolith.
Yawg and Demonic would also be good additions.

How about try xantid swarm over welder, its gszable, gives you the needed reziliance vs counters, and between chancelors, esg, and landgrant>>duels, green is your most consistent initial mana color.

Wow, I completely missed that Ghoul needed to be brought back.

If we are running 4 GSZ and Land Grant (I really approve of land grant) would a single Dryad Arbor be good for the deck? It is slower for sure, but it can be gotten with GSZ for cheap and can be fetched with Land Grant too. I played SX for a while with 2 lands and just 4 land grants and I never had any problem getting them out of the deck. I'm guessing it would mean a missed Belcher once in a while, but since this deck is not all about Belcher, it might be worth trying.

Should Welder be a 4th Monolith?

I've really not sure what the Narcomebas are for. Once you activate Druid, you should win with Ghoul anyway. If you don't, you have no deck left to use the Narcomoebas. You can't even use them + Therapy to protect your Ghoul since any removal will hit the already in play ghoul at that point. I'm confused.

Same goes for Bridge From Below.

I am not even slightly sold on Manamorphose.  A deck like this needs to mulligan into a good hand.  Cantrips mess up your mulliganing decisions since you do not know what you will draw into.

Green Sun's Zenith seems insane in a deck with so much acceleration.  Getting 3 mana should be no problem.

I recommend Land Grant along with 1 or 2 lands since that permanent land gives you the mana to activate Hermit without messing up your belches too much.

I was looking at that and like.... wait a second... that looks familiar!  It looks like he played, card for card, the one I played at the Meandeck Open at the end of November!   All the way to down to Imperial Seal and the absurd 18 land

Looks like it paid off as the top 8 was all Fish and Stax! 

I had intended to attempt a tournament on this scale at some point, but I really had to crunch some numbers when I first thought about it.  I took in to account the fact that in the United States today east of the Mississippi which is your expected distance to travel, there are at a maximum, 200 total competitive vintage players.  

Without tapping in to any other market, legacy, standard etc and drawing them in with insane prizes to a format they know nothing about, you are barely breaking even if EVERY SINGLE vintage player in the USA attends.

Even at 40 dollar entry, your pulling in 8 grand, with that entire prize structure, and I'm going by generous prices on the power, it would run around $7600.  Of course, if you have a deal on the cards and you just need to move them, that is a completely different situation.

It was always my intention the next time I won 20 grand + that I would run the most ridiculous vintage tournament with the largest prize payout in the history of the world, so here's hoping I get lucky again before you get to steal my thunder Nick :>

But the brutal truth is that this kind of tournament may not be financially viable in the United States due to the fact that there just aren't enough players to make a profit.  But, that's where my ideas come in, if it's all won money from a casino, who really gives a shit if I'm taking a loss, it's not that big of a deal, and I would forever be known as the guy that ran the largest vintage tournament in the history of the world.