Empty and Mentor are good, but there are a lot of options in straight UB for playing around hate cards. Other than blue's bounce spells and Tinker, black has a strong creature game with cards like Pack Rat and Phyrexian Obliterator. I like to just play whatever I think my opponents will be the least prepared for.

I think @Smmenen wrote a SCG article a long time ago about a tournament of decks from the different eras of Vintage. GAT won I believe.

@moorebrother1 said in Xantcha, Sleeper Agent:

This may fit awkwardly into Oath of Druids.

Yeah it would help you to Trigger Oath

Ninja of the Deep used to be a semi-popular / good card in Fish. I’ve played Prophetic Flamespeaker in Fish and it was really good. I like this card. Maybe there’s some good ETB effects you can use with this like Baleful Strix.

Empty is a versatile alternate win condition. You wouldn’t want Blightsteel against a 4x Dack Fayden deck, but they could also have something clever such as Leyline if Sanctity; so it’s just about having alternate win conditions that are versatile and very strong against something like Fish

I need Chrome Mox, Dark Confidant, and Phyrexian Obliterators if anyone has any for trade before the tournament

I tried listening but BK's sound quality is really awful.

Drawing three cards every turn is a game winning effect for a blue deck. I think this card is playable, even though the argument for Seeker makes sense. Personally I don't like playing a bunch of cards like Time Vault and Voltaic Key so I would never play Seeker anymore. The token generating walkers have been getting some love in Vintage recently, so why not? Worse case, its netting the same as JTMS.

I’m in LA now. I just don’t know if I can get to this right now since it’s Father’s Day and I gotta show face for the in laws

Would you considering upping the proxy limit? (Since the cards are an expensive entry themselves)