AaronO24

Whatever then.

"And that's where I think many players make a mistake. They just look at the price of a deck but don't evaluate the longivity of those cards.

See, you can buy a deck for 30 dollars and call it a day but if the deck consists of cards that are too specific then you don't really build up a collection because you will not be able to use them in the future outside of that deck. Most tribal decks are like that. A bunch of creatures that buff each other but rarely work with something else.
But if your deck contains lots of cards that are generally useful, then you are really building up a collection you can work with. I'd rather spend 50 dollars on a deck with cards like Black Sun's Zenith, Phyrexian Metamorph, Incendiary Command, Mother of Runes and Spell Crumple than 30 dollars on a Ally deck where most cards can't stand on their own.
That's also the reason why you should not dodge buying dual lands for too long. It doesn't matter if it's fecthlands, shocklands or whatever, once you've got them, they will always be useful for you.

The other thing, of course, is the value. Will the cards keep it? Of course that's hard to say, but there are some rules of thumb. Most importantly, how old are they? Most cards that are still Type II legal will go down once they rotate out of Standard. I'd rather buy a 500 dollar Legacy deck than a 300 dollar Standard deck because I know the former well keep it's value.
Also, there are a lot of cards that aren't really worth their price. Many cards only have a nominal value, 50 cent here and 90 cent there, but that's just a price dealers slap on them arbitrarily. If you try to sell it yourself you will never going to get your money back, you might not even find a buyer for 10 cent. MANY cards are of this nature. Staple cards, however, are always in high demand. A Qasali Pridemage may not be expensive either but has a *true* value of about 1 dollar. It's listed as 1.50 but it is so widely used and in demand that if you go down to 1 dollar, then it won't take you long to find a buyer. Only THEN a card has a true value. Your Kavu Monarch, however, may be listed as 40 cent but even if you go down to 10 you will probably never find a buyer."

And that in a nutshell is why i refuse to play Standard.

http://youtu.be/c-Twz77o0p8 This is why i make an argument for Worldspine Wurm.

I would personally use this creature line up.
4 Griselbrand
3 Worldspine Wurm
1 Emrakul, the Aeon's Torn

18 lands isn't enough.

I'll take power any day. Powerfully broken things are generally what win but with that being said Dredge is one of the easiest decks to hate out games 2&3

Dredge without mana is an entire turn slower.

You could easily make substitutes for
4 Underground Sea
4 Force of Will
1 Show and Tell

As for the fetch lands
Polluted Delta has been reprinted in Khans
Misty Rainforest and Verdant Catacombs are in Modern Master's 2015 so those prices are dropping even more.

1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Terastodon
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3 Griselbrand
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria

1 Island
1 Swamp
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
2 Verdant Catacombs
"You can easily make substitutions as needed in the manabase"

4 Lotus Petal
4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Entomb
4 Force of Will
4 Careful Study
4 Exhume
4 Ponder
4 Reanimate
1 Show and Tell
2 Thoughtseize

Splashing Blue for starters.

You have way too many creatures in the deck first of all.

Dredge with Mana in my opinion is better, but it's a pleasant surprise to see someone with an actual Legacy deck for once.

In today's market i'd honestly rather invest in MTG then a college education. Have fun being crushed under tens of thousands of dollars in student loans with little to no prospects to show for it. :)

You have to think of Legacy as an investment plain and simple.

http://www.mtgvault.com/aarono24/decks/sneak-and-show/ I think this is more what you'd want to do in Legacy to "ramp" or in this case cheat out a giant fatty early. As early as turn 2 even.

Just seems like you could be doing better things then playing 0/2's for 0 and 1/1's for 0 or 1/1's for 2 especially in legacy.

Also i don't really understand why Manakin, Memnite and Ornithopter are included.
Enlighten me?

How does it usually fair in sanctioned events?

I assume Ld is a real common thing in your playgroup then? Because if not i can't see the reasoning behind why you aren't playing them.

Seems wrong but okay.