So everyone has been talking about the benefits of this card triggering from artifacts, but remember it also triggers from enchantments, and so does the prowess of the tokens. I think someone mentioned concordant crossroads, which makes me wonder if this could fit into an enchantress type deck. Though you'll have to forgive my ignorance about enchantress in general, I had a 15-year hiatus in MTG and I couldn't even begin to know what goes in to a vintage enchantress deck. Just thinking a bunch of wild growth type shenanigans could be pretty strong with a token-producer like this.

Great event, I enjoyed playing in it. I just spent half an hour writing out a report and then somehow hit a wrong key or something and lost it. I don't really feel like typing it all out again. Happy to have made top 4, I regret my keep in game 3 against bug fish. I shouldn't keep such a questionable hand on the play against a favorable matchup.

I've played this deck for some time now and I have to comment on the dredge matchup: It's really not as bad as everyone thinks it is, if you're able to waste their bazaar after only one activation you can usually race, as long as they don't have another one. I still don't expect to win game one most of the time, but it can happen. I don't love facing oath or workshops either, but honestly I don't think this deck has any truly terrible matchups.

Two comments on other issues in this thread:

First, I don't think playing this deck without power is a great idea, it's not going to neuter it by as much as going powerless with other decks, but 1st turn lords (or double lords) are just way too good to pass up. Ancestral and time walk pretty much speak for themselves.

Second, I recently tried cutting reejery and here are my observations: I went up to two maindeck steel sabotage, plus 2 in the board along with 2 annul, I feel like this helped my workshop matchup immensely. I added 2 divert (though I have been wondering if stifle is better), divert isn't strictly for abrupt decay, it can help with swords, grudges on your null rods, and can help win a counter battle as well, the fact is, it is really our only 1 for 1 answer (other than hardcast misdirection) to abrupt decay. And decay seems like it's everywhere these days. The negative aspects of cutting the reejereys is that you reduce the number of times that you can go nuts and empty your hand and present lethal that or the followng turn even with a griselbrand in play, but that does not really happen that often. The most common downside to cutting reejerey is that there are more situations in which you are stuck with an uncastable silvergil adept in hand.

Overall though, when we cut reejerey, the extra counters really helped the deck feel more like a control-aggro deck rather than just strait aggro.
The thing with merfolk is it seems like you're pretty much stuck with whatever half you draw, so not drawing a good mix of disruption and dudes can help you to lose a game real quick.  Can you really throw back a hand of lotus cavern island lord lord lord silvergil? You'd have to be nuts to right? Well this is vintage, and even if you go first turn lord silvergil, if you brick on your next two draws the next thing you know your opponent is taking infinite turns and you only got in for 7. This is just playing the format and playing the deck I suppose, a more even mix of disruption with the cut of reejery can give you a better balance, you're just always going to have the problem of card selection with this deck though.

Curious about the results of this one. I was stuck in Colorado and couldn't make it.

I think there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 21-23 players. I went undefeated in the swiss with a black/green concoction I created on the ride up there, but I lost in quarters. The top 4 I believe were 2 oath decks, a 5c Shops deck, and a BUG fish deck. I only know my B/g deck and a gush deck of some sort in the top 8 (the other two I don't know).
It was another great time at this venue and I will definitely return for any tournaments that they hold. The top 4 split again, so the Mox Ruby is still there. I guess they could conceivably hold tournaments for this mox indefinitely.

I believe there was some disgust over an oath mirror, there may have been some punches thrown, and then Greg started playing guitar and singing.