Today I'm going to show you a few different takes on Vintage Dredge and discuss some of the card choices. The lower-than-usual price tag makes it an attractive option for many people so it tends to be popular in the online queues. Dredge has always been one of the cheapest ways to play sanctioned Vintage in paper and on Magic Online. I've been thinking a lot about Dredge lately. Copying a VSL list and practicing with it and tuning it for the metagame you expect to face is likely to yield much better results. The players in the league are very talented and generally design good decks, but they can also get away with things that might not work as well in a large event like the Vintage Championships. The important point to remember is that copying a VSL list verbatim and expecting it to do well in a large event is not a great idea. Of course in the VSL all the players are ringers, so that does complicate matters somewhat. This makes it more like going to a small, local tournament where all of the players know each other. The VSL is a closed meta players know the other participants in the league and can use that information to their advantage. The participants in the VSL do the same thing, but the metagame they're expecting is much different than what most people will have to prepare for. When someone builds a deck for a tournament they generally try to anticipate what decks they will face (at least if they want to succeed). In fact, the league environment is quite different and somewhat warped compared to the format as a whole. This is great for entertainment value and for the variety and experience of seeing new things, but it's important to remember that the Vintage Super League isn't just a microcosm of the broader Vintage meta.

Often times I run into players on Magic Online who have copied some new and flashy deck from the VSL. In many ways the VSL has a profound effect on the Vintage metagame.

The Vintage Super League is in it's sixth season and it's still bringing us interesting Vintage action after all this time.

Mtg vintage dredge