Really enjoyed reading the primer. Glad to see that a Mono U (probably my favorite deck) may have a niche in the current meta.
 
I would like to ask one question. Have you tested/considered playing Engineered Explosives over Powder Keg? Keg does take time to build up and certain threats do demand immediate answers. It seems the draw engine of this deck could get your off color moxen fairly reliably. Is this the case? Have you ever been in a situation where you wouldn't be able to get an Explosives down for at least 2?

I do the see the downside of destroying Propaganda, and more importantly Back to Basics, when set to three. Could this be a reason why you chose keg over explosives?

That is currently the idea I'm trying to develop for my EBA deck. I cut mages for some wishes. Now i'm just trying to build a sideboard that is relatively close to Germbus but remain in colors. Like finding cards that have similar purposes and running them instead of just running red. I currently don't think its possibly to do but I'm gonna stick with it.

I was that the tounrament that day and I was the character playing Rector TRIX .
But I stayed around to watch the finals and I was really impressed by the performance of the deck. Most of the matches were close but was slightly in favor in my opinion. Especially after sideboarind.. Null Rod really saved the deck against the 7/10 player and STP was serious tech in the final match. All around those were a excellent couple of games to watch and I'm glad I stayed.

Next month if you go to this tournament expect to see Tog. There wasn't any this tournament (very strange...) but most players stated "next month i'm making tog" or other similar comments. Look forward to playing again next month.

I'm down in the StL region as well and I was thinking about coming up to the area tourneys. However the past 2 prizes have been workshops correct? Workshop is good but its no Mox if you know what I mean. When is the next event going down? Also... anyone going to Origins in Columbus?

I've always defended the fact that Trix was more stable of the two choices. I feel that Plunge could really make Trix more viable than Tendrils. Plunge gives you the other method of kill, as opposed to drawing it and playing it out with Bargain. I also believe its a stronger version because you are able to protect yourself with FoW. With that much Blue in the deck running 4 FoW is no problem. At least I never had any problems with the build I was playing.
Just looking at the two builds make me thing the Trix version will be more solid and that Plunge gave Trix more edge in the game as far as speed goes. I thought the old choice was between reliability or speed. Trix or Tendrils? Since Plunge appears on the surface to add more speed to Trix I think Trix could very well take the spot of Tendrils for Rector decks.

My intial thoughts of Plunge was that you would only realistically use this on your main phase as a method to Donate your Illusoins. But with 6 spare mana floating around you should have gone for Bargain and just drawn cards and won.

Then I realized that this is INSTANT speed killing and tutoring and I got a big grin on my face. I can now see why this would be such a good addition to the deck (@JPMeyer: now I also see why you need just 5 mana for the Plunge/Donate). Play EOT Plunge and wait for your main phase. However, you would need to be in position to set up a really nice hand in order to protect Illusions til your main phase. I think this method of Plunge could realistically be used as the main way to combo out Trix. I think though that you would really need to up the Donate count to 3 just so you are sure that you get Donate the first time around. Again, life gain comes after you you are severly limited by your first 20 life to get the donate.

@JuJu As far as the Chains of Vapor question, its just really good spot removal to get rid of the Donated Illusions. I use Rushing Rivers myself but lately I think I may swtich over. Misdirections are becoming used less and less  and its much cheaper, so Chains may be the way to go. As far as other enchanments (such as Seal) belong in the sideboard. Only place that has room for them.

What intrigues me most about this card's addition is possibly cutting out Necropotence for Plunge number 4. Ever since I've been playing this deck Necropotence's addition has been a questionable. At least in my eyes. I have only been glad to draw Necro once or twice and I have only won games once or twice by playing/rectoring Necro and I really want to try testing it without. This may not be wise though. Any thoughts on that?

I don't think adding Illusions/Donate would be a wise decision. First of all you need 6 mana for the proposed combo of getting an Illusions out, Plunging into a Donate, and playing the Donate. As far as the ordering of the stack, life gain comes after Plunge resolves, right? So you are very limited to maybe a 15 Plunge at best. I don't think that 15 cards deep is enough to find 1 Donate. I just don't think it would work in the Tendrils version.

As far the the Trix verison of the deck I feel that Plunge either has very limited possibilites with the deck or very VERY synergistic possibilites. I must first ask though, how are you going to use Plunge in the Trix version? I've been thinking about it all morning and Plunge can either become the main way you get your combo, as opposed to Bargain. Or it can either just strengthen the deck's consistentcy as a way to get Bargain in play. But If that is the case I think you need to run more Illusions.

So are you running Plunge as just a Rector kill method? Or would you run it with the purpose of entwining it?

Hrmmm. I find this interesting. I live down in Southern Illinois and we basically have no type 1 scene that I'm aware of. If you guys throw trounaments... I'll be sure to head up. What kind of attendence do you usually get? Are decks usually fully powered? Right now I'm out at Hadley for school and everyone here is a beast when it comes to type 1. lol. But I'm coming home and will certainly need to keep busy this summer.