Playing Parfait

Hello everyone. I've been reading these forums for about two months now, and although I've applied for membership I haven't been approved yet, so I think that this new forum is a great idea. Only time will tell how much it will be used.

Some background: I started playing magic just prior to the Dark, but like many people I stopped playing for several years after Iceage. Upon returning to Magic I found that all my favorate cards were no longer "legal". I also quickly learnt that trying to keep up with the changing tournament types was expensive (and no fun). So I found Vintage. Being completely unpowered, I have proxy played several different decks against my friends who are also exploring Vintage. Although I love Enchantress, I am realistic about my chances of getting together any deck that requires power in the next while. So I'm plaing Parfait and loving it.

Here is my current deck list. I now own most of these cards or am actively trying to obtain them.

14 Plains
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

4 Land Tax
2 Sacred Mesa
2 Wrath of God
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Balance
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Karmic Justice
3 Seal of Cleansing
4 Argivian Find
2 Orim's Chant
1 Humility
2 Story Circle
1 Jester's Cap
2 Replenish
1 Ivory Mask

1 Toromond's crypt
1 Soldevi Digger
3 Scroll Rack
2 Zuran Orb
2 Ivory Tower

The Sideboard.

1 Aegis of Honor
2 Toromond's Crypt
2 Orim's Chant
1 Blood Moon
2 Replenish
1 Sacred Mesa
1 Mountain
1 Aura Fracture
2 Aura of Silence
(yes, I know that's only 13)

I know that there are some unusual choices here.

Seal of Cleansing: I maindecked these over Aura of Silence simply because of the mana cost. 1W allows me to cast in addition to something else, rather than spending a whole turn on it. Also, it helps a little with my Jester's Cap problem, as described below.

Jester's Cap: This I maindecked in response to a maindecked Cap in a Keeper deck I was playing. By mulliganing aggressively, the Keeper play ensured that he always had a tutor or Cap in his opening hand. As I have no counterspells, he was able to take out my digger and Mesas in the opening rounds. Having no victory conditions left, I would inevidably loose. The first time I maindecked Jester's Cap he ignored it and I showed him that with the amount of recursion in my deck a Jester's Cap in my hands was a game ender. From then on he always removed the Cap (this also explains the 3rd Mesa in the Sideboard). I have also been considering adding two Factories to the maindeck over two plains. Testing shows that the mana base still works, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to add extra victory conditions.

The Metagame: A state of flux. With almost no active type 1 players outside of my friends and I this is really hard to define. Some of us are still proxying any deck we find interesting, others of us are settling down to build realistic powerless decks. I am the only Parfait player right now, but cheap aggro like Stompy and Sligh are beginning to appear.

So any advice/criticism is welcomed. I also have the following questions.

1) Is maindecking a couple of Mishra's Factories a good idea? If not, what alternate victory conditions should I try instead?

2) I have experimented with REB versus mono blue and found that it works provided that you get the mana. Is this viable in a more highly powered metagame?

3) Due to the lack of cards around here for type 1 we have considered internet purchases. Any advice?

Thanks for your comments, and thank you Zerbus for this forum!