Well, I tested a lot, and I believe the missteps are better to have than not to have. With the amount of swords, delvers, pyroblasts, ancestral, misstep, etc... it seems to be better to have it. Played the Vintage challenge today and took 1st place with this list:

2x Flooded Strand
4x Polluted Delta
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Strip Mine
3x Underground Sea
2x Volcanic Island
2x Island
1x Library of Alexandria
2x Notion Thief
1x Blightsteel Colossus
2x Dack Fayden
2x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Brainstorm
3x Preordain
3x Mental Misstep
4x Force of Will
2x Mana Drain
1x Ponder
1x Tinker
1x Time Walk
2x Flusterstorm
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Gush
1x Treasure Cruise
1x Dig Through Time
1x Timetwister
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
1x Sol Ring
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mana Crypt

SB:
2x Sulfur Elemental
2x Ingot Chewer
3x Tormod's Crypt
3x Grafdigger's Cage
1x Toxic Deluge
2x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Mindbreak Trap
1x Arcane Laboratory

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-beaten-stabbed-magic-gathering-game-article-1.3366795

These guys must have been discussing the Gush/Mentor restriction debate.

This whole thing does not seem any different than ID's in paper. By the same logic, those are match fixing as well right? But that happens in EVERY tournament EVER. I don't see how this is even a discussion thread. This is part of the game.
If someone draws or concede's in a final round and it knocks me out of top 8, which is more productive: complain about how those people 'screwed' me, or reflect on the matches I lost and consider what I could do differently in future matches so that I don't have to hope for tie breakers to get me in?

@brianpk80 So after playing a few leagues with Gisela, I am impressed. Pretty much lights out for shops, and very hard castable.

I'm happy with how I did, but its kind of crappy that Wizards tainted it by not having the top 8 work correctly. The top 8 pairings were not by standings, they were random. And if someone didn't make it over, even worse. I think by the way they messaged, if you did better in top 8 than standings they paid the diff. So if Jazza was 1st is standings, he probably got paid 1st prize payout and was no point in playing out the top 8. He probably conceded to his opponent since he could not win anything more. That what I would have done.

@gkraigher So, you want wizards to change the errata, then re-print it, and then immediately ban/restrict it? Seems like an unlikely course of action they would take.

@john-cox what are you referring to as addendum that mills? The original wording on the card does not read this way. Was that an old errata function that worked this way at some point?

Thanks @nucleosynth

Here is what I faced today:
R1 - Landstill: L 1-2
R2 - Ravager Shops: W 2-1
R3 - Ravager Shops: W 2-0
R4 - Mentor: W 2-0
R5 - Mentor: W 2-1
R6 - White Eldrazi: W 2-1
T8 - Mentor: W 2-0
T4 - White Eldrazi: W 2-1
T2 - Landstill: W 2-1

White eldrazi was tough, but they kind of fold to blightsteel if you can stick it. Won me both matches today. Basically played the games towards vault key or blightsteel and let anything through that didn't mess with that plan.

Congratz @ChubbyRain !

@wappla Just for the record, the first daily event after the restrictions Rich was on Oath. He switches decks around quite a bit if you watch his stream. I don't think he was being hypocritical.

Seems like a good dredge Target. Except the existing targets straight kill the opponent, so I don’t really see this as an upgrade.

@bandswithothers seems sweet. But what’s with the combat redirection part? Shouldn’t it read combat damage done to you can be re-directed to Jace? Not from Jace to a creature.
The abilities should also read only once per turn and as a sorcery.
Needs more text

Awesome! I had to miss the last one (Daughters birthday > vintage). But I plan to be there for this one. Can't wait, see you in a few weeks.

@ophidian RIW has their monthly vintage this Sunday in Livonia. If you can make the trip, I highly recommend it. It's my daughter's b-day or I would be headed there myself this weekend.

@moorebrother1 I think there is a slight disadvantage to people always knowing what deck you are on, but I think repetition and expertise with a specific deck far out way that. Look at @Montolio as an example. At champs, or any time on-line, every opponent that sits across from him 100% knows he is on shops. But he still wins consistently because of how well he knows the deck.
I think the key for me to getting better (and I'm not great btw) is just learning to slow down, and think a few seconds before each play. The other key has been to remember my mistakes and learn from them, instead of getting tilted by them. I don't like to mess up and lose a match because of it, but if it helps me play better in future matches, then the mistake was not that bad after all.
And above all, I have to have fun. If I'm so focused on winning that I'm not having fun, then I am missing the point of playing the game. Winning is nice, but the purpose of playing a game is to have fun. I find if I keep a good attitude and enjoy the game, no matter how much I am winning or losing, I play at a higher level because I am more relaxed.

@moorebrother1 I would second this. The tournaments at RIW that Ben puts on are great. I look forward to them each time I get to go, even though it is a 3 hour drive for me to go to them.

I have been playing Grixis Theives. It's a pile of broken fun cards, and I like stealing the fun from my opponent. Probably not the best deck by far, but has all the things I like about vintage.

@brass-man yeah, I forgot about that as well. Seems like they should be quite a bit less.

@madmanmike25 You would be surprised what people will pay for them. They wouldn't be worth that much if people weren't buying them. You don't have to tote them around either. eBay is pretty easy way to unload them.

@ydl They have only released them in one set, Vintage Masters. However, they are found in Treasure Chests, so there is a steady stream of them released on MTGO.