I wish my congratulations to the various pilots – even with the best deck it takes skill and luck to perform well at a large event. While Bazaar of Moxen’s October 2016 published results did not include any Dredge decks, the Vintage Championship at Eternal Weekend as well as the past four Power 9 Challenges on Magic Online all featured a finish by Pitch Dredge ahead of any other Dredge variant finish. This variant, which emphasizes counterspells, has out-placed the older variant featuring permanent destruction (or counter-hate_ in 5 out of the last 5 major events for which placement data is available.

Flashback unburial rites targeting craterhoof, making abunch of big dudes with trample.The Pitch Dredge deck that I have been writing about and advocating for the past couple of years is performing well, and may well be considered the premier Vintage Dredge deck. While dredging, you typically will hit craterhoof and unburial rites. Those are typically your mana ramp dudes, bloodghast (great synergy with greenseeker) and narcomoeba (easy to get on the battlefield when dredging). So how to win? You want lots of cheap creatures on the battlefield. However, I found that gravetroll helped if I played him from my hand if someone was screwing with my graveyard (scavenging oozes eating my craterhoofs!) Narcomoeba + Bloodghast = cheap value creatures to make huge with trample. Value! Gravetroll + Stinkweed are there for dredging. Life from the loam returns your lands AND dredges. This means, they sometimes allow a turn 3 win! Lightning axe and faithless looting also are great discard sources with great benefits. They allow you to discard a card from your hand (to get those dredge mechanics, put your win conditions into your graveyards) and then ramp you mana off of that. Your two mana ramps PLUS an awesome discard mechanic are greenseeker and llanowar mentor. The land base isn't the best, but by running these lands I save lots of money. At least ONE white source in order to get your win condition off.

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