U/B/G Dredge

[alamoth]

This deck is a variation on Ichorid but designed for Type 2 and therefore lacking in the Ichorid department. The idea is straightforward. Dredge your deck down until you can Dread Return an enormous Golgari Grave-Troll.

Ichorid Sans-Ichorid
1 Forest
4 Gemstone Mine
3 Ghost Quarter
4 Llanowar Wastes
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Swamp
4 Watery Grave

4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Golgari Thug
4 Looter il-Kor
4 Shambling Shell
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Twisted Abomination

3 Dread Return
3 Life From the Loam
4 Putrefy
4 Remand

SB:
3 Ancient Grudge
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Life From the Loam
3 Naturalize
4 Wall of Roots
3 Leyline of the Void

The deck can put a lot of creatures in the graveyard making Avatar of Woe seem like a good choice for kill card, but Golgari Grave-Troll suffices.

The basic idea is to disrupt your opponent with Putrefy and Remand and the Ghost Quarter / Life From the Loam combo. Play Looter il-Kor and use his draws for additional dredging. Discards to Looter should always be dredge cards or flashback cards. Play any Shambling Shells, Stinkweed Imps, and Nether Traitor from hand and use them to inflict some pain or force your opponent to use their disruption.

Twisted Abomination is used to fix your mana. If you open up with Llanowar Wastes and Ghost Quarter you can use the Abomination to fetch out Tomb or Grave.

I will be testing the deck on MWS tonight. The sideboarding strategies should be as follows:

Vs. Any Aggro Deck: +4 Wall of Roots, -4 Twisted Abomination. Odds are, the aggro decks aren't going to let you get to the point where you can recur the Grave-Troll consistently so you'll want to focus more on defending yourself with Wall of Roots and Shambling Shells. You have a lot of cheap creatures as well and should be able to keep the board even until you can animate the Grave-Trolls.

Vs. Tron Decks: +1 Ghost Quarter, +1 LftL, +3 Naturalize, -4 Golgari Grave-Troll, -1 Dread Return. This matchup is going to be all about the Ghost Quarter disruption. If they can't assemble the tron they have no game. The extra Naturalizes will help get rid of signets. Then you just play out or animate Twisted Abomination to win.

Vs. Solar _____ : +3 Leyline of the Void, -2 Putrefy, -1 Dread Return. Solar Animator decks will be shut down quickly by Leyline giving you time to setup your Grave-Troll.

Vs. Dragonstorm: +1 Ghost Quarter, +1 LftL, -2 Putrefy. This is probably going to be a horrible matchup.

Vs. Tormod's Crypt: +3 Ancient Grudge, -3 Putrefy.

If anyone wants to test this out or test against it let me know.

[conelead]

why would you board OUT artifact removal against Tormod's Crypt. I would only do that as the default sideboard assuming I have no use for Putrefy in the matchup. What is taken out varies. If its Boros, I'd leave Putrefy in, and, if I wanted to board for Crypt, I'd board out something else. Anyway, boarding for a single card is stupidity. I discovered that myself. There are certain cards you just lose to. Accept it. I played a Sligh deck in a white-control infested environment once where the OTHER major aggro deck was goblins. I had no answer to CoP: Red. I went 7-1 anyway. My loss was to CoP: Red. I also beat 3 decks who boarded the circle against me. Meh. You lose to Tormod's Crypt. Play around it and accept it.

edit: The deck looks good otherwise.

PS: Basically, what I am talking about is fearing a single card (especially a sideboard card). Fear of maindeck-worthy stays like Wrath of God is reasonable. Those cards can be planned for, and probably should be. However, sideboarding for a single sideboard card, that isn't even going to be widely played, is, in my opinion, not smart. Potentially if Crypt became a staple in almost every sideboard, I might plan for it. I'd probably just play a different deck. Wasting 3 sideboard slots for a Tormod's Crypt that you probably won't see, is not something I like. There has to be a better use for those slots.

[alamoth]

You're probably right Cone. The deck is structured around the same premise as my Vintage Dredge deck which has to constantly live in fear of Tormod's Crypt. It isn't as big a deal in Standard so the Grudges can probably go.

Also I've been testing with switching out Looter il-Kor for Shadowmage Infiltrator and I'm also trying to fit Nether Traitor in somewhere. Possibily he'll replace Twisted Abomination.

[optimystic]

I've been playing with one of these decks for a long time now, and that isn't quite the way to go with it. You really need to go for a dredge/reanimation mixture, and drop most anything that you can't bring back easily.

This is my decklist.

Land:
4x Overgrown Tomb
3x Llanowar Wastes
3x Quicksand
1x Mouth of Ronom
1x Ghost Quarter
2x Snow-Covered Swamp
3x Snow-Covered Forest
2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
2x Golgari Rot Farm

Creatures:
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Stinkweed Imp
4x Nether Traitor
1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
2x Bogardan Hellkite
4x Fa'adiyah Seer
1x Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
2x Grave-Shell Scarab

Spells:
3x Life from the Loam
4x Darkblast
4x Delirium Skeins
3x Dread Return
2x Moldervine Cloak

Get the dredge engine running as fast as you can. Either a good Delirium Skeins, or an early darkblast will help with that. Fill the yard and whack hard with Svogthos or gravetroll. Nether traitor is an alternative condition that's great with moldervine cloak. Gravetroll is a nice cheap recurrable dredger, and haakon is obvious. Sack creatures to dread return to bring back beefy, then just nether your traitors into play, or dredge back your creatures providing more options.

Sideboard depends on meta, but mine looks like this:

4x Firemane Angel
3x Indrik Stomphowler
2x Nightmare Void
1x Akroma, Angel of Fury
2x Blazing Archon
2x Necroplasm (Morph creatures and tokens)
1x Loaming Shaman