Bummer to hear this.  We had a win and in to top 8 at the gencon vintage champs and he beat me in 3.  Hope it was legitimate.

I wander into mtg at reddit on occasion, there appears to be a few players that were part of the recent bannings that allegedly have no clue how it happened. 

Was thinking the same thing.  Probably start with a remix of Channel/oath + Ugin.

It is an extremely unique card, and tough to properly evaluate.  Its power level will probably change more than an average card  as magic prints more sets.
That said, non null rod mud could just as easily play pithing needle to supplement revokers to keep vault/key in check instead of trying to resolve a 5 drop that takes away a few lines of losing the game and does little to nothing to promote winning.

If you look to replace a specific ability of a card it is easy to get lost in the power level of vintage.  Is a 2UU sorcery with gy restrictions better than just playing 2UU Jace?

Usually people just tweet at their favorite account or scapegoat (@mtgworth, @MagicOnline, @mturian, etc) and they always see it.

I guess the green splash with predator and grudge might be more nuanced with having to know total mana sources, lands, etc.  With the 14 land, 2 mox, 1 lotus version of URg it seemed that the trump power of grudge/predator was at least partially offset by waste vulnerability and the associated variance of top decks after fetching trop or volcanic.  Completely agree with the oath comment, a fairly big difference between an opponent having to resolve one or two oaths coupled with the possibility of answering a cage.

Is anyone still playing the mini green splash?  I've played some practice matches and feel like the strength of predator and grudge is almost equally negated by having less basics and a third color vs. shops.

I bought into vintage yesterday and built kowal's version.  Against oath, particularly when they resolve it (no way in the 75 to destroy it) I feel like I can defend my cage against claim but feel exposed vs. grudge and similar cards ie shattering spree.

Nice report.  I plan on building your version too, and hope to speed up my play.  These 30 minute modo rounds won't be around forever.

Whenever I get around to buying into vintage modo I am interested in something non-workshop, dredge, or fish.  Here's the differences between in the Kowal and Kotter lists.

Completely agree.  Taking into account the resources and scope of the company and the possible market of magic online, the client is a farce.

Anyone attending from the Bakersfield area?

Thankd Pau. I was just thinking about independently trying to find out names and lists for the t8. Congrats on your finish.

Bonde posted his list on twitter
To follow him he is: @Lampalot

Creature [15]
4 Dark Confidant
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Trygon Predator
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Instant [18]
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Abrupt Decay
3 Spell Pierce
1 Brainstorm
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Steel Sabotage

Sorcery [2]
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor

Artifact [7]
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
3 Null Rod

Land [18]
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
2 Verdant Catacombs
60 cards

Sideboard:
2 Yixlid Jailer
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Dismember
2 Darkblast
1 Mental Misstep
2 Nature's Claim
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Energy Flux

I too have been looking everywhere for them.  I think I remember from watching the coverage: BUG deathrite guys took first, with 2 workshop decks (1 with forgemaster) rounding out the top 4.  I think there was an oath deck in the top 8. Am looking forward to the top 8 lists when/where ever they get posted.

I am moving to Bakersfield in about a month or two.  Hopefully in the future I can make some of these!

Looking forward to the Olivia decklist!

I don't think the head judge would ever allow it.  The name of the card would not be strip mine in English.

Thanks for always taking the time to post this content.  I always read the lists and occasionally check the profiles but rarely say thanks.

http://imgur.com/28E7j

Interesting, that does look like a reasonable case for 3 cards.

I feel like some sort of deluded Obama birther conspiracist asking for the HD video, but I still see 4 cards every time.

Each time I watch the video I too see 4 cards.  Though, I see little reason for SCG to deceive us.

Videos are great.  Thanks for the time and effort!

LSV briefly touches on this issue@ http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/channel-lsv-3-inn-draft-2/ at around 6 minutes.  He no longer deranged assistant's, and passes on an armored skaab+3 lands during his forbidden alchemy in anticipation of drawing his laboratory maniac.

I chose TMD over mtgsalvation because this place's members are more talented in statistics and magic theory.

I will edit the cards to link to oracle text and pictures.

Recently I have been watching/participating in a lot of Innistrad drafts.  One aspect of this format that has caught my attention: the abilities of cards like Trepanation Blade, Deranged Assistant, Armored Skaab, Selhoff Occultist, Mindshrieker, among others.

The specific case that brought this to my attention was after round 2 when we saw the opponent had a Garruk, while our deck lacked burn and evasion except for a Mindshrieker.  I stated that we had a potential "out" with mindshrieker.   He instantly cringed and told me "I'm better then that".  His counter, which is true, is that if he does not have Garruk in his hand, and we do not mill Garruk he is now (barring shuffle effects) always one card closer to drawing the planeswalker.  However, in addition to this, the opportunity cost of attempting to mill the Garruk is consistent with our game plan of winning the game.  It is a cheap activation for 2 colorless mana that pumps the evasive creature.  This is opposed to purposefully side boarding in a weak card like cellar door and trying to live the dream.

My friend who was piloting MODO was opposed to the general idea of trying to mill an opponents "bomb" in formats like draft and sealed, whereas I have become extremely interested in the math and theory behind the strategy.  I believe the strategy behind it is usually wrong and/or weak, however Innistrad has so many mill/flashback cards and abilities (for you and the opponent) that the issue is worth examining.  Relevant information to take into account appears to be the strength of their deck, cards in hand, relevant flashback cards, cards in library, opportunity cost of drafting/playing/activating such cards along with all the knowledge and information about your own game state, deck, and answers.

However, I realized the intricacies of this phenomenon during the same round.   Each player had around 5 or 6 lands in play with close to a stalemate board.  He had the option to play armored skaab to get an addition blocker out and a creature to help maneuver around our equipment.  The skaab sat in his hand for two turns.  After I pressed him on the issue we evaluated the situation.  We did have some flashback cards to randomly get value, such as a think twice, and a grasp of phantoms.  However, he was not willing to risk the chance of losing Liliana, Curse of Death Hold, etc.  
I found it delightfully interesting that he was not interested in slightly advancing the game state, combined with the prospect of getting a flashback card in our graveyard, versus milling one of the few ways we had to win the game (curse would be game).

I guess this post has not actually advanced anything "objective", nor have I retained the math skills to pursue this issue.  However, if during the course of an Innistrad draft game every card (in all zones) had a fluctuating value of strength/relevance given the game state, that statistical ebbs and flows would occur where it is wrong to play your own Armored Skaab (with no threat of decking yourself), and if for some reason you have a choice to attack with a 3/3 intimidate and a 1/1 flyer carrying a Trepanation Blade the correct answer would take into account the average and cards/lands left and the very small, but non zero relevance of answers and cards in their deck.  Part of the problem with this is that we do not have perfect information regarding an opponents deck list, and hand.  However, perfect information is available for our own deck.  Additional scenarios like the risk-reward of casting desperate ravings with 0 or 1 cards in hand have also come up.

If anyone can expand on the relevance of this in limited, or specifically its complexity within Innistrad, I would enjoy reading their perspective.

-Edited for spelling

Edit-- I had this post open for a while and ReAnimator covered it.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?p=7296744

Memory's Journey 1u
Instant (U)
Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Flashback
Illus. Slawomir Maniak
66/264

Aside from being blast-able this looks like an upgrade to krosan reclamation. 

That makes perfect sense.  I knew it could not be true but could not find out the (now) obvious reason.  Good eye.

Anyone else notice that the power 9 is not banned at the official commander website?!

http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/resources.aspx?x=magic/rules/100cardsingleton-commander

The current banned list for Commander is as follows:

    Balance
    Biorhythm
    Braids, Cabal Minion
    Channel
    Coalition Victory
    Fastbond
    Gifts Ungiven
    Karakas
    Kokusho, the Evening Star
    Library of Alexandria
    Lion's Eye Diamond
    Limited Resources
    Painter's Servant
    Panoptic Mirror
    Protean Hulk
    Recurring Nightmare
    Riftsweeper
    Staff of Domination
    Sway of the Stars
    Upheaval
    Time Vault
    Tinker
    Tolarian Academy
    Worldgorger Dragon

Of course not, and I would not argue that it does.  I was simply stating that as of now, it appears, that no non black deck has used it as off color removal for 1colorless + 4 life.