Thoughtcast Painter

Hey there everyone,

I have been out of magic for around 2 years now, in the last tournament I played Gifts was still the deck to beat, so as far as I can see on deckcheck, the metagame has changed pretty radical.
Since the Dutch Vintage Championships are coming up in April, I decided to get back to playing vintage.
The most intresting deck I saw was the Thoughtcast Painter deck as played by Demonic Attorney to a 2nd place at Myriad Games in Januari.

Thoughtcast Painter by Demonic Attorney @Myriad Games 17 Jan:

Mainboard:
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Seat of the Synod
2 Island
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Darksteel Colossus
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
2 Grindstone
3 Painter's Servant
3 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Thoughtcast
4 Force of Will
1 Tolarian Academy

# 60

Sideboard:
2 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Shattering Spree
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Pithing Needle
2 Old Man of the Sea

# 15

During my first games on MWS the deck proved to be very solid, I won my first 3 Matches (2 times against stax and 1 time against TPS) with relative ease.
The only problem I had was the manabase, it seems very vulnerable to non-basic hate, and in general the land count seems quite low, with null rod as an added problem.
The main deck seems pretty fixed so far with the 2 relic of progenitus serving as open spots, I definetly wanted to try to fix in 2 trinket mages, since they serve as a tutor and a minor beatstick. In the end my list ended up in between Duncans top 8 list and Demonic and looks a bit like this:

2 Trinket Mage
1 Darksteel Colossus
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Thoughtcast
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
5 Moxen
2 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Island
2 Seat of the Synod

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Pyroclasm
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Red Elemental Blast

Wich means the changes from the first list were:

-1 Thoughtcast
-1 Library of Alexandria
-1 Time Walk
-1 Relic of Progenitus

+2 Trinket Mage
+1 EE
+1 Island

Sideboard:

-2 Old Man of the Sea
-1 Viashino Heretic
-1 Shat Spree

+2 Pyroclasm
+1 Relic of Progenitus
+1 Rack and Ruin

I took the Time Walk from the mainboard and the library to make the deck 10 proxy viable, in the time walk spot I put the first Trinket Mage and the Library spot I used for the third island to up the basic land count.
Last off I added the second trinket mage and an EE instaid of a thoughtcast and a Relic of Progenitus, the Relic is a strong card in some matchups but the trinket provides more stability in my opinion.
The sideboard is just personal prefference, I never really like Old man but in some matchups it is stronger.
I hope this thread opens up some discussion on this versatile deck with a lot of promise!

Greetz, Koeka