Now that I would have to test. And I will do so in a day or two.

I mean, my testing sucks (because I suck) but it at least gives me a general idea of what feels powerful and weak.

Honestly I'd chop the one MisD or maybe even the Scroll (but I'd reaaaaaaaally hesitate to cut the Scroll so almost definitely the MisD) - there's no sense retooling the entire base of the deck, IMO, because what we're doing here is basically collecting ideas.

(Speaking of. Tezzeret. Top. Counterbalance. Trying it now, am liking it less than Back to Basics plus Chrome Mox but more than Chrome Mox in general, which is very weird and Escher of me.)

The Remora COULD be cut but that's just such an insane play in that deck. Honestly, I view Key as just a mise draw. You can still Chalice at one because you don't lose out that much by NOT playing Key, it just gives you that chance to go "oops turn one key turn two vault gee gee" or something similar. And since I have had that draw all of once in testing, it's honestly not THAT frequent. But it's still worth it, in my mind.

You even put them right NEXT to each other. When your ideal plan is to win really really fast, don't you want Voltaic Key to serve as a faux-Tezzeret?

Well obv. You get the turn two "I win" draws without having to Drain into Tezzeret.

Although you're now making me wonder as to the validity of Trinket Mage solely on THAT basis, that he goes and gets Key, rather than him going and getting a lot of other stuff.

EDIT: Shards of Alara spoilers ahoy!

Relic of Progenitus
1
Artifact
Common

T: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game.
1, remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.

218/249

Yes? No?

Well, I love the maindeck Stifles, but your manabase is 100% Wastelandable, which doesn't seem so strong. The idea of hybridizing with Noughts is awesome, though. I'd rather have Thirsts than Researches/Plans, but that's just me - mostly because it frees you up to run Will and some Thoughtseizes or Duresses, or just maindeck MisD or something.

The Noughts are great. The Chromes I haven't tested but feel like they have a place in the deck. I'd add a basic land.

THIS is a fun one.

Despite being printed in Shards of Alara (which makes it illegal in T2 and 1.x because those two formats have a defined list of sets from which you are allowed to draw), it is a legally printed Magic: the Gathering card, officially released by Wizards of the Coast, and doesn't have alternate border or back, making it legal in Vintage and Legacy.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/469b

What I myself am testing, just for a different angle... I have neglected the maindeck Tormod's because, let's face it, this deck pretty much scoops to Dredge in this configuration. If an argument can be made for its use, I will gladly try to shoehorn it in.

    4 Island
    3 Polluted Delta
    2 Flooded Strand
    3 U. Sea
    1 Academy Ruins [considering an Island]
    1 Academy
    1 Seat of the Synod [also considering an Island]
    7 SoLoMoxen
    1 Mana Crypt
    1 Mana Vault
    1 Lotus Petal

    4 Seeker
    1 Colossus

    4 Force of Will
    4 Mana Drain
    4 Thoughtseize
    4 Thirst for Knowledge
    1 Pithing Needle
    1 Echoing Truth
    1 Time Vault
    1 Time Walk
    1 Ponder
    1 Brainstorm
    1 Ancestral Recall
    1 Tinker
    1 Voltaic Key
    1 Fact or Fiction [yes? It's a Drain sink better than any but Tezzie himself]
    1 Trinisphere
    1 Demonic Tutor
    1 Vampiric Tutor
    1 Yawgmoth's Will

// Sideboard
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Echoing Truth
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Darkblast
1 Moonglove Extract [have any other bad players ever suggested this? It seems to fill the important niche of "this deck is completely unable to beat Welder" fairly well.]

Sideboard sucks, honestly, because this is still a prototype. Any feedback appreciated, I'm pretty damn bad at design.

He wants to know what combinations of cards you want to draw off Recall that makes you decide the right play is to tutor for Recall rather than tutoring for one of those cards you want - "Ideally, you hit tinker and some blue mana", or so he says, so why not just tutor for Tinker?

Okay, I'm missing something. What's the FIFTH Will?

Unless you meant Will initially then Wish for it again which seems completely wrong, everything else I can see aside from Death Wish can't get a sideboard Will.