So I've been looking at a lot of Dredgevine decks (since Vengevine is one of my favorite magic cards ever printed), and I really love the variance in the different decks. I've made some lists and looked at some sample hands and done some minor playtesting for several different variations, like BUG Dredgevine, Jundvine, and Gruul (Clown-Car) Dredgevine, and all of them seemed powerful in their own right, but all kind of inconsistent as well. I loved that red gave me access to faithless looting, but blue gave me access to magus of the bazaar and hedron crab. In all the playtests though, I think that black was kind of the weak link in terms of color combinations. All it really gave me was darkblast, which life from the loam does a decent enough impersonation of. I also cheated in bloodghast. Because YOLO.
However, if I used both Red and Blue, I got access to Izzet Charm, which does a pretty darn good Faithless Looting impression while being a great utility in a billion other instances.
And so, RUG-Vine was born.
I'm not going to pretend that I'm the first person in the world that's come up with this color combo in a Dredgevine deck, but it's definitely not the expected archetype right now. I think RUG gives me access to plenty of fast, low cost creatures that also have great potential in milling my vengevine and making a quick kill. It has pretty solid draws as well, and magus of the bazaar can help me quicken things up if I can't find a vine early on.
I'm really liking this deck and considering buying it (and maybe even sleeving it up for Grand Prix Detroit...?), so comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
