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My opponent had a sure win next turn and a Tormod's Crypt out, but I had Bazaar, Tropical Island and Mox Pearl out.  I use Black Lotus to play Animate Dead on Dragon.  My opponent Crypted in response to the spell.  I had already pitched Tyrant (Should have been Oona) to Force so my only plan was the Witness plan.  Anyway, I had Necromany in hand and just drew the game when I could have won.

The problem I thought I had was that without another black source I could not get another animate spell to restart the loop.  It turns out I could have instead milled to Witness and stopped the loop by animating Witness while grabbing Dragon with Witness.  Then I could let Crypt resolve.  Then in response to the orginal animate I could have Bazaared Dragon back into the yard and let the orginal animate do its thing putting my library in my hand.  Naturally this occurred to meet 4am about three days later.

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Unrestricting Academy is utter maddness. Whether its's the focus of your deck or not, it still produces a crazy burst of blue mana acceleration. Stax, Control Slaver, almost any deck could abuse it pretty heavily, not just combo. Doubly so if you're unrestricting Frantic Search at the same time.

Anybody can get into the "Standard Scene" by buying packs of Shadowmoor.  You can see what you rip for your 4 bucks and put them together and make something that's legal in their format.

I've yet to rip a lotus/mox/drain/etc out of a booster pack.  I somehow doubt it will ever happen.  To play T1, you have to buy singles.  You dont buy packs, there's rarely any "luck" in what you might get out of a booster pack  as a T1 player.  You snipe individual cards, and I can't speak for anybody else, but after playing T1 the other formats bore me.  In general it's too slow and there's never that inevitable topdeck that will get them out of a nasty situation.  In fact the brokenness of T1 is the reason I choose to play it.  Most of the few cards that I have left aren't even T1 playables but still I choose to pay attention to what's going on in T1 because I find it more fun.

I think that the major difference is that a player who plays predominantly Standard will see a new set and buy booster packs to get staples for the format.  T1 players will see a new set and pick a few cards to snipe from it - case and point would be vroman's predictions stated in another thread.  The rest of the set is more or less worthless in a (competitive) T1 deck.  Net effect - people buying booster packs find that there is nothing within the sets that can make them competitive in a T1 environment.  Instead of buying boosters, they have to search ebay or any of the online stores for singles just to stay competitive - staples which in playsets cost more than an entire box of boosters of the newest set (and this is byepassing power and duals altogehter).

I hate to say it, but I really think that the only way to incite massive interest in T1 would be to reprint all the broken cards so that the gaps between the formats would shrink.  Would you rather spend 50 dollars for 2/3 of a box of cards or a playset of cards only playable in T1?  While it is true that T1 is actually cheaper (over time) than T2 to play, people would rather spend that small amount of money getting boxes of the new set and being able to play T2 than they would saving the money over a long period of time to get staples for the least common format.

I know that the cost of cards is prohibitive enough where I will not attend local tournaments unless they are unlimited proxy.  Even then, it's pretty lame to play a deck with 75 islands and a dead sharpie.

Add to this the fact T1 tournaments are much more scarce than other tournaments and you run into this chicken-and-egg situation.  If there arent any T1 tournaments, nobody will buy T1 cards.  If nobody is buying T1 cards, shops wont host T1 tournaments.

I don't see this changing anytime soon.