Have you been testing the deck in the emerging meta?

I've been playing variants of this deck consistently for the last few months and am finding myself losing terribly to steel city vault or other comboish decks. Chalice simply bought so much time in these matchups, and I'm not sure what else could play this role. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the deck's future direction.

Yes, that Goblins build was very interesting, I like it a lot
In the round 1, game 1, match of the top 8 my Oath of Druids met 2x Force of Will with Lackey->Siege-Gang following the next turn

Game two I mulled to four...

While I believe that Razia is the stronger choice of the two, the argument about Red Elemental Blast isn't entirely correct. Red Elemental Blast is a card that apprears after sideboard. If you believe that REB or other spot removal cards to be a threat, you simply side out your Vampire for Simic Sky Swallower.

Not long ago I experimented the use of Orim's Chant in Oath, coupled with Memory Lapse, and Remand. Each of these cards served dual purposes, serving as virtual Time Walks or resolving Oath itself.

The primary issue with Oath is that when it hits the table, the game is not over, the opponent often has Two-Three turns remaining. Time Walk usually ends the game after the first angel has hit the table, so I decided that the deck needed more.  Orim's Chant filled the spot.

I'll clear up on Exodus Oath, as I designed it.

There are two builds of the deck, the build that I ran at GP Samite Two and the build that I ran at the most recent Myriad.

The build at GP Samite two was a two color Oath deck that ran Muddles. It can be found here: http://www.newenglandmagicgroup.com/forum_viewtopic.php?34.4902

The deck below is the most recent build.

Exodus Oath II

Spells: 36
4 Oath of Druids
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Impulse
3 Remand
3 Duress
2 Orim's Chant
2 Memory Lapse
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Time Walk

Mana Sources: 24
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Wasteland
2 City of Brass
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Strip Mine

The deck was designed so that either every card either functioned as a Time Walk or found Oath.

Note: The build at Myriad ran Tinker/Colossus main, over the two Memory Lapses, due to an extremely large amount of Swords to Plowshares.

My main issue with this deck is that fact that it can just oath up a Squee, making it slower than any other Oath deck at its aim. However, have you considered making this list into a Salvagers Oath list? You could keep the Bazaars and such just to be able to dig down into a Pyrite Spellbomb and the deck would be faster.

Life From the Loam is also a great way to fill up the grave yard if you do take this route- get the Lotus or Lion's Eye Diamond + Combo piece in the yard quickly but I think four is perhaps too heavy (as you said, you'd likely be Intuitioning for it, why draw more?), I would probably play one (again, if you use Intuition for it) at most and use the other slots for some type of cheap disruption, Duress seems like a good candidate.

Another issue with the deck I think might be Intuition itself, if you're playing four Bazaars then wouldn't getting to three mana be an issue?

Edit: My apologies, I entirely misread the post, the Oath list did not have Squees in it...

I agree with Ambivalent Duck, Time Walk is useless in some blue decks; primarily combo in which it is the most expensive cantrip in the deck....a cantrip that kills your storm.

Maybe instead of the Lotus you could have an overall up in prize for the entire top eight. If you were to take in the amount of money you were suggesting to support a lotus-mox tournament you could have something along the lines of:

1. Mox Jet (Or whatever Mox)
2. Library of Alexandria (Maybe Bazaar or Workshop?)
3. E. Mana Drain*
4. E. Mana Drain *
6. I. Mana Drain*
7. I. Mana Drain *
8. I. Mana Drain*

*Or something with equal value, to diversify the prizes

I am not exactly suggesting the above prize structure to be used as listed, just suggesting that the top 8 spread out a bit. I've top eighted at Myriad three times, and twice I've top eighted and have gotten little or no prize. (that last bit is not a complaint)

I believe that if you were to do a Lotus-Mox with weak or no prizes for the remainder of the top 4 or top 8 that it may draw fewer
people than if you were to make the prize profitable for any of the top 8 players: But we can find that out through the poll.

If a person has subpar play skills then being a "specialist" is likely more suited for them (I am not saying that all "specialists" are sub-par players). Specialists (the kind who are not very developed or skilled players) seem to depend entirely on the knowledge of their deck, when to mulligan, and what do deal with. Knowing your deck well, the extent of its capabilities, is a highly important aspect of winning. You can pick up a "bad" deck and do well with it if you know your deck well enough.

I am not a good player, I do admit it, because of this I tend to fall into the specialist category. I realize, that since I do not have the time or resources to test the metagame and each deck thoroughly, that my best chance at winning is to know my deck as best as possible.

When I decided to actually attend my first vintage tournament, my cardpool was small for the format and I was on a low budget. I picked up Meandeck Tendrils and for the months preceding the tournament I would first attend, I goldfished the deck approx. 500 times and played an innumerable amount of times: I wanted to become so greatly familiar with all of the aspects of my deck that I would make very few mistakes. Meandeck Tendrils is likely one of the most "specialistic" decks of the game, your opponent's deck matters little (all you must do is learn to play around Force of Will), it requires you to know it well. I was able to top 8 four times in the next five tournaments with the deck. I was able to accomplish this, I believe, because I knew my deck so well (though some argue I've made a human sacrifice or two)

Perhaps, Dan, you could post a possible prize structure and put up a poll to see how many people you could get. If you posted a Lotus for first and a Mox for second (not necessarily that extreme), I'm sure you'd have no trouble getting a larger turn out- the poll would be a bit of insurance, just to make sure that you will get a good enough attendance, and if not, readjust the prizes. Just a thought

Another great event, looking forward to the next one
On a side note, the top four listed above is incorrect, it was me (Greg Hughes) vs. Oliver Beaumont and Nate Pease vs. Travis Laplante

Ah, let me explain about my "sketchy" Oath build. The first problem is that I built my sideboard on the spot with limited time, I had to throw something together very quickly. In the end I was not satisfied by my choice of sideboard cards (Spiriit of the night was there to fill up space).

As for intuitions: I Only wanted to play one (and even that I did not like very much). I would've played Imperial Seal but I did not have the proxy space.

With the whole "Choke" thing, 4 Cities was far too heavy, but again, my sideboard was made on the spot.

And you are right about Chalices, there should be at least three or very possibly four.

-Greg

Also, props to Travis: I heard many a lament over Monkey Cage 

Having been to some of these Myriad tournaments I can definitely see why white would be the superior option. (I will not go into the details of White vs. Black as it had been done several times)

On an entirely different note however, have you considered Blood Moon? Not only does the card often wreck control decks ('Tog, Oath Control Slaver etc.), but can often cripple other various forms of aggro (i.e. Fish) and can give Stax a rough time as well. I am not necessarily advocating the card mainboard, but it seems to me that it would be a very viable sideboard option.

I would also like to say that Gorilla Shaman is quite good in this deck (at least as a one of). Denying opponent's mana sources is critical in buying time, and Gorilla Shaman does this quite well. Gifts Ungiven for example, a deck that I saw a few of at the last Myriad tournament, relies on its artifact mana- If you deny them of it, you buy yourself more than enough time to win.