What's your name and where do you live?
I'm Graeme and I live in Milton, Ontario in Canada. I live just across town from Dangerlinto.
How did you become interested in classic in the first place?
On a whim I went looking to see if there was an online version of magic. Upon finding it, I wanted to play a format with the old cards I was used to in paper. So classic is where I started, and have never looked back.
If you could play any classic deck what would it be?
Oath has to be my favourite deck in the format. It's so flexible that you can really tune it to work in any meta.
What is your favorite MTGO accomplishment whether it relates to tournament play, deck innovation or community involvement?
The first classic tournament I entered was a DE I split for the win. So it was a memorable start to playing classic.
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I remember when Graeme and I found out we lived in the same town... that was a "what are the chances" moment!
At the time, there were probably only 60,000 in the town (so I guess not that small).
You can run Gemstone Mine instead of Undiscovered Paradise to significantly lower the price of dredge. It's not quite as good as Undiscovered Paradise, but it's still a tourney deck with Mine's instead.
I've personally only seen 3 people running affinity: Kuriboh, thewoof2, and the_crisp_one. Despite it's success, it's never been a widely played deck. I think there will be quite a few "rogue" builds in this meta, a much higher percentage than in other QTs.
Also, Oath isn't a budget deck, no matter how you build it. Show and Tell is like 50 or 60 right now. Jace isn't cheap, neither is Thoughtseize. Pretty much whatever option you choose, the deck is expensive, no matter the price of Oath.
Although I can see switching Gemstone mine for Undiscovered Paradise it significantly makes the deck worse imo and isn't nearly as tournament worthy. Being able to recur those Bloodghasts is such a huge part of dredge. Gemstone Mine can not fill that void in any capacity.
Oath isn't cheap. Agree 100%! Not sure What Zackaringo was thinking on that one.
@ DL! I live 30 minutes away from both you guys. Still think we should try and arrange a draft one night. Would be too fun!
Andy
That's just what makes Dredge tick - it's all the stupid angles of attack it has, and the ability to tick off all the hate people run vs. it
Having Paradise means an opponent might have to blow a nihil spellbomb, crypt or trap at the wrong time or having something in the GY after such an occurrence. Dredge makes the choice of when to use these cards MUCH tougher with always active bloodghasts in the mix.
The ONLY downside to paradise is it practically locks Dredge into 1 mana answers, which is a small problem when misstep exists (and I know all about wispmare and chewer - the problem is half the time those cards are the wrong answer). Running Mine might let you stretch into other anti-hate. I don't think you'd ever be justified. If you are playing dredge, you are already cheaper than practically every deck in existence - including a lot of Standard ones.
Why is the Delver list called 4c delver? It's just RUG with ravenous trap in the board.
3+1=4
I agree with you Bliven. It is RUG + Rav Trap. For the record we are calling Alberto's deck RUG hence forth.
Andy
What do you guys think about a port of this abortion into Classic?: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/236
Only you could make that thing work in classic
J