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Here's just a combo I want to propose for a deck that will be standard when Scars of Mirrodin rotates in.

My findings for the spoilers are from here:

http://www.gatheringmagic.com/scars-of-mirrodin-spoilers-0249/

The card of interest is Necrotic Ooze. He has the static ability "As long as Necrotic Ooze is on the battlefield, it has all the activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards". I thought that this card combos very well in a deck like Dredgevine. Recently, I have read up on how the Dredgevine deck works and here I have posted an exact copy of David Ochoa's deck list from nationals where he placed 4th:

http://mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=90527

Now the extractor demons, noble hiearchs, and sedraxis are rotating out, so there are slots to be filled. For the moment, we don't know the rulings for Necrotic Ooze, but I'm assuming that anything with a specific named activated ability is out of the question for use in the graveyard? (You could probably put level counters on him, but what good would that do?) So for example, River Boa, who has tap :manag:: "Regenerate River Boa" would not be able to be used because Necrotic Ooze isn't River Boa. But putting that aside...

Two cards that have come to mind for me so far are Gigantomancer and Spawnshire of Ulamog. So the deck mills Gigantomancer, for instance, into the graveyard and you play Necrotic Ooze. Kind of like the Sovereigns-Conscription combo, your fauna shamans, cryptologists, hedron crabs, noble hiearchs, looters, birds of paradise, doppleganger, and (of course) vengevines! can become 7/7's instantly and attack for the win, granted you have enough mana left over after playing Necrotic Ooze. With Spawnshire, it's a less exciting combo, but you can start creating that spawn army without having to hardcast the 10 mana costing creature.

So the deck list would look something like:
-4 Extracter Demons
-2 noble hiearchs
-1 Sedraxis Alchemist

+4 Gigantomancers
+3 Necrotic Ooze

to make it:

Creatures (36)
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Hedron Crab
4x Gigantomancer
4x Vengevine
1x Sylvan Ranger
4x Fauna Shaman
4x Merfolk Looter
4x Enclave Cryptologist
4x Renegade Doppelganger
3x Necrotic Ooze
Land (24)
5x Forest
4x Island
2x Swamp
3x Drowned Catacomb
4x Misty Rainforest
2x Scalding Tarn
4x Verdant Catacombs

So what do you think? Could it be competitive? Will it make it? I certainly hope so, and I hope I was the one that came up with it :)

btw, I'm hoping the name-based action rule doesn't work out, so that Necrotic Ooze can use Vengeful Archon's ability :) maybe even just the first part because it doesn't specify vengeful archon preventing the damage

OH and anyone else think that the Gideon Jura + Sunblast Angel combo is pretty sweet? :)
Day of Judgment on their side of the field while placing a 4/5 creature on the field at the same time...is that not cool?