[Deck] Dredge-a-Tog - Psychatog with the new Dredge cards

I'm not going to Philly, but I am helping someone test for it. Many matches now, I've been on the recieving end of both brutally fast kills and/or long games in which he ended up out-drawing me two to one, using this:

MAINDECK:
4 Psychatog
4 Brainstorm
4 Acc. Knowledge
4 Deep Analysis
4 Intuition
2 Darkblast
4 Chrome Mox
4 Force of Will
4 Counterspell
4 Mana Leak
1 Wonder
1 Stinkweed Imp
2 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland
2 Coliseum
2 Swamp
6 Island

SIDEBOARD:
4 Duress
4 Hydroblast
3 Back to Basics
3 Smother
1 Morphling

It's a good deck because it has a lot of ways to kill you, is very consistent at all of them, and is incredibly hard to disrupt.

Depending on the situation and matchup, this deck can use:
Plan A. Play as a combo deck and win on turn 4 using Intuition --> Stinkweed Imp, Deep Analysis, and Wonder.
Plan B. Play as a board control deck and wipe your board with a barrage of recurring Darkblasts (this plan also happens to make Tog enormous)
Plan C. Play the traditional control game and burying you in card advantage via plays because it can Intuition for AK AND Intuition for DA OR use Stinkweed OR Darkblast to dump a million DAs into the grave.

Before Ravnica, this deck used a very similar list, except -2 Darkblast, -1 Stinkweed, -1 Wonder for +4 Engineered Plague. That made the Goblin matchup very lopsided but gave it trouble against everything else. The new changes destroy Goblins just as well but also hurt control decks.

Against Goblins, you can go with either Plan A or Plan B. Turn 4 wins result from a turn two Tog, turn 3 Intuition for Imp, a DA, and Wonder, and untapping turn 4 to win on the spot. You can also go for the Cunning Wish--> Berserk combo, but that's tougher to pull off for lethal damage on turn 4. I don't even use Cunning Wish because there's nothing I want that Intuition doesn't get me. Anyway, with this new combo, you can race the Goblin goldfish, except they have to worry about a blocking Psychatog and Force of Will.

Now, you won't always draw Psychatog early. Or maybe you don't feel you can win the race. In a situation like this, Intuition --> Darkblast, DA, DA may be the way to go. Darkblast allows you eternally ping Goblin Lackeys and Goblin Piledrivers and Siege-Gang Tokens and Mogg Fanatics and...you get the point. Basically, Darkblast is the new Masticore that works starting on turn 1.

Against control decks, the Darkblast is pretty useless, so don't get that. Instead, you play the control game, but keep in mind that if they give you the chance to go for the combo, don't hesitate to kill them. For example, if Landstill taps out on turn 3 to cast Crucible of Worlds, you can Intuition eot for the combo, and win on turn 4 without fear of STP. Usually, though, the opponent won't let you win this fast - they choose the slow, painful death. Intuition for 3x Deep Analysis is the play of the day against an opposing blue deck because they'll have a hard time stopping the CA. If they counter all your DA attempts, they won't be able to stop the Tog. Chances are they'll have to let you draw your cards, in which case you'll be able to sculpt something like the hand my friend had against me the last time I played Landstill:

Force of Will
Counterspell
Counterspell
Force of Will
Mana Leak
Counterspell
Psychatog

He showed me his hand...I folded on the spot and proceeded to have nightmares through night.

Some weird choices:
I already talked about the lack of Cunning Wish. Earlier, we had compiled a list of feasible Wish targets and had come to the conclusion that none of them were worth it. For example, Wish-->Smother was just inferior in every way to Intuition-->Darkblast+DA+DA. Wish-->FoF was worse than Intuition-->AK/DA. Wish-->Berserk was just worse than Intuition-->Stinkweed Imp. Everything else, like Wish--> Stifle/Misdirection/Hydroblast/etc was just too narrow. The only things we missed was the access to bounce and Ebony Charm, but we decided that it wasn't worth it to devote all that sideboard and maindeck space just to get a freaking Boomerang.

We chose to run 4 Intuition because every plan goes through Intuition. Intuition gives the deck its synergy and melds the three plans listed above into one cohesive strategy. It allows for a lot of synergy.

Most importantly, we have decided to stick with UB becaues it's so liberating to not have to worry about Wasteland at all.

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Originally Posted by Alvin6688

Against Goblins, you can go with either Plan A or Plan B. Turn 4 wins result from a turn two Tog, turn 3 Intuition for Imp, a DA, and Wonder, and untapping turn 4 to win on the spot.

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Can you go into detail about this play? I'm not seeing the win here.

You have a 'Tog out and EOT intuition for Imp, DA, Wonder. Lets say your opponent gives you the Imp, how do you combo out?

I see that cutting a color gives you mana stability, and running the full suite of Intuition card draw targets can give massive card advantage against control decks. But I like Life from the Loam, Lonely Sandbar, Lonely Sandbar better, because its uncounterable recurring card draw. And it lets you run a recurring Wasteland, which is brutal against many decks.

Also keep in mind that with Life from the Loam, you don't fear Wastelands as much.

The problem with Life of the Loam against Wasteland is that it's a sorcery. If they have Wasteland recursion going, they can Waste any green souce they see during your upkeep and thereby denying you the chance of ever casting that Loam. Also, when you're facing a deck like Goblins, you won't be allowed the time to recover from a Wasteland via something slow like Life of the Loam. Wasteland is a tempo card in that it reduces your early game and prevents you from reaching the late game. Problem is, Loam is a late game card. I'd rather just run the ultimate Wasteland-killer: Basic Island. And in our test games, Back to Basics has just been brutal.

If you look at the semifinals matchup between U/B Tog and Dredge-A-Tog, you'll see that Dredge-A-Tog was never given the time to get the engine activated. Tog is too fast a creature, and the Ruel (playing U/B) had it all at instant speed. Because Ruel ran more small draw (Opt, Mental Note, TfK, FoF), he had the upper hand early on and was able to maintain this upper hand throughout all three games. While Dredge-A-Tog may have the upper hand way into the late game, Ruel's build would never give Dredge-A-Tog the time or the board stability to do so.

We originally had green in the maindeck for 2 Deeds, 2 Wishes --> Berserk, and 3 Life of the Loam. We found that we never really needed any of the green cards. Winning on turn 4 > Deeding on turn 4. Imp combo > Berserk combo. Blue instant speed draw > Life of the Loam.

I consider Intuition --> DA/DA/DA uncounterable as well, since people almost never counter the Intuitions of a Tog deck. They think you're going for AK, and they figure they'll just counter the AK. Then you hit them with three DAs, and they realize that they've just lost the game. If they are smart and they do counter the Intuition, then you can probably untap and get Tog into play with little resistance. Then they'll have to deal with the Tog.

The recurring Wasteland idea via Loam is interesting, and certainly powerful, though I'm not sure how many Wastelands you'd be able to fit into a UBG Tog deck. Maybe 2, and Intuition to find. But again, you're relying on Intuition, and I'd rather just go for either Darkblast, AK, DA, or the win if I'm going to cast Intuition on turn three.

In testing, we found that the blue draw that Legacy has to offer is just stronger and more efficient than Life of the Loam.

As for the combo, this is what happens: You have a Tog out and 4 lands in play. EOT, you Intuition for Wonder, Deep Anal, and Imp. They give you Imp. You untap, and discard Imp to Tog (+1/+1). Instead of drawing your card, you Dredge the Imp back to your hand, putting 5 cards into your grave. Then discard Imp to Tog again (+2/+2). You then spend two mana flashing back the Deep Anal in your grave, but rather than draw two cards, you instead dredge Imp back to your hand for each card you would have drawn. That's twice you dredge and discard Imp. That's another +2/+2 for a total of +4/+4 to Tog this turn, and another 10 cards dumped into your graveyard. By now you probably have atleast 18 cards in your graveyard. Chances are, one of these 18 cards is a second DA allowing you to put 10 more cards into the grave and give Tog a total of +6/+6 until eot because you discard that same Imp 6 times this turn. If you don't have that second DA, any draw effect in your hand (Brainstorm, AK, DA, Cephalid Coliseum, etc) does the same thing. No matter how you go about it, you have a lethal Tog. You could keep going if you have the mana, the HP, and the sadistic desire to do so. Your Tog flies because Wonder got Intuitioned into the graveyard, and before they've even blinked, they're sitting pretty on -15 or so life.

But but but if deep analysis makes you draw two cards, I don't think you can discard imp between the draw of the first and second cards, i'd say you dredge, get imp, then draw another card because you can't dredge for the imp is back in your hand (that is, if there is only one in the grave at the time DA resolves.

I mean, it is still a brutal thing to behold, but i don't think deep analysis will let you dredge the same card twice.

Rules geeks all feel free to make me swallow teeth witht he full weight of the rulebook.

Yeah, I had a question about that too. It's a replacement effect, so it shouldn't worry about stack or anything. I think it works, but I'm going to ask the person who came up with this in the first place. He should give me the answer. Meanwhile, does anyone know if you can do this?

Concerning drawing more than 1 card and Dredge:

Because Dredge is a replacement effect, it does not use the stack. However, 'Tog is just an instant effect, and there is never an opportunity to return Stinkweed Imp to the graveyard while the draw spell is resolving. At best, you will dredge Stinkweed Imp for 5 and draw one card.

This is different if you have two instances of dredge in your graveyard as you resolve Deep Analysis.

Interestingly enough, in order to hose Dredge you can remove the card anytime prior to the resolution of a draw. (aside from the draw step which doesn't use the stack and you draw immediately at the beginning of that step) So, if they cycle a card, you can respond with a Coffin Purge and remove Life from the Loam and they will draw a card. If you attempt to Coffin Purge first however, they can respond with a draw spell, and dredge the Loam instead.

Point of this story: Dredge is annoyingly difficult to play with in conjunction with draw spells.

PS: Intuition is as broken or more in the Legacy version than Gifts Ungiven is in Extended.
Im testing a version that runs 1 Eternal Witness 1 Regrowth to get ANY card from my deck. Genesis is also there, but i don't really need since Tog is just so broken anyway. Go figure.

@Alvin6688: why nor use Golgari Grave-Troll instead of the Imp. It has one more dredge. And do you ever want to hardcast the Imp?

I can see Quicksand working its way into the more controlling builds. Tap: Destroy target goblin anyone?

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Originally Posted by noobslayer

I can see Quicksand working its way into the more controlling builds. Tap: Destroy target goblin anyone?

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Quicksand is an option, but it only answers one threat, not all of them. Overwhelming armies are your real problem. Intuition > E. Plague is probably your best bet against Goblins, at least post board.

Godzilla, do most Goblin builds these days pack ways to stop Plague? If so, I'd rather run something that they don't so easily expect. For example, if Goblins begins running Goblin Kings, Plague is a lot less effective. Same if they run 4+ Disenchant Effects. In that case, I'd rather stock up on a ton of Hydroblasts and Smothers and do target practive on the creatures that make the deck fast: Piledriver, Warchief, Lackey.

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Originally Posted by Alvin6688

Godzilla, do most Goblin builds these days pack ways to stop Plague? If so, I'd rather run something that they don't so easily expect. For example, if Goblins begins running Goblin Kings, Plague is a lot less effective.

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Extensive testing has shown that the 4x Goblin King strategy is wholly ineffective against Engineered Plague. Basically, the strategy forces the goblins player to find and resolve multiple Goblin Kings to try to stay afloat rather than actively winning the game. Even if they succeed, they're so far behind by this point that you're already bearing down on them with a lethal Tog.

Disenchant is a far more significant problem. However, you are playing a control deck. You have 8 counters, and at least 3 Intuitions to find your Plagues. Depending on your build, you also have recurring Darkblast, Putrefy, and/or Deed to help slow Goblins down. You're also playing an equally aggressive deck than can win as early as turn 4, just like them.

In short, the Goblins matchup isn't a real problem for you, at least post board. Engineered Plague is the correct answer to Goblins. That they are aware of it is irrellevant. Ask any hard-core Vial Goblins player what card they fear more than any other. The answer will invariably be Plague. It's the single best anti-Goblins card in the game, and you're running black. 2+2=?

Wow I didn't even look at this thread before because so many times you'll see stuff like this and it'll be some newb deck. Anyway if the deck is as strong when it had gush is it possible wizards might do something about it? I personally think it's about time we got a control deck that could kill fast enough to beat goblins.

On a side note does this deck have what it takes to replace that crappy landstill deck as tier 1?

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Originally Posted by blacklotus3636

On a side note does this deck have what it takes to replace that crappy landstill deck as tier 1?

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I don't htink that's a discussion worth having right now, for a few reasons:

1. There are some who would disagree that Landstill is crappy. (Although I'm not one of them.)

2. Landstill is pure control where this is essentially combo-control. I don't think they fulfill even remotely the same metagame roles. Therefore, even if DAT is Tier 1 quality, it wouldn't necessecarily be replacing Landstill.

3. It would be pure speculation, since there's not anything even resembling an optimized list, and no one has played this at a major Legacy tournament yet, much less won with it.

4. It's too late for DAT to replace Landstill in Tier 1 because Rabid Wombat already has. Excepting decks with 4 Flashfires in the SB and maybe FlameVault combo, Wombat does literally everything that Landstill does but better.

In any case, this was really just a lengthy rant to explain why we shouldn't discuss this, so ignore everything I just said and discuss the deck itself.

Woot! My Tog thread made it to front page of SCG. Yay.

Ok anyway, I posted this as a response to some of the questions they asked their. Interestingly, the questions are the same as those asked here, so I'll just Copy/Paste my post:

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The combo of Intuition --> Imp, DA, Wonder doesn't work, so I changed it to Intuition --> Imp, Imp, DA/Wonder, depending on what you don't have in your hand. If you've already drawn a DA, or have one sitting in the grave already, then go grab Wonder. Otherwise, go for DA, becuase you'll more than likely Dredge into Wonder anyway. If you've already drawn an Imp, then obviously go for the second Imp, a DA, and a Wonder. So it all depends on the situation.

Why Stinkweed Imp over Troll? Because that extra Dredge has not once made a difference between killing them and dying. Not once. On the other hand, stalling for time by blocking a Goblin Piledriver with an Imp has. Imp recursion is also a nice way of killing fatties that Darkblast, Tog, and Countermagic can't handle, like Exalted Angel, Morphling, etc. Imp > Troll because it can actually do something useful.

Pithing Needle is indeed a pain, since it slows you down to a crawl. Pithing Needle is the main reason I miss Wish --> Echoing Truth. Other options include maindeck bounce, or maindeck Nev's Disk/Powder Keg/Engineered Explosives. But what can we take out for these cards? Perhaps cut another Mana Leak, and then either a Deep Analysis, an Intuition, or a Darkblast. Not sure. How do you guys think we go about this change?

As for testing results: I've tested against Goblins and Landstill. I still need to test against MWC and Flame Vault, among other things.

Goblins: 60%. Even if you decide to go for the fast win against Goblins, you still have to make sure you disrupt them. Undisrupted, they can kill you as early as turn three. So you still have to Force of Will that turn one Lackey. Nev's Disk, Powder Keg, and Explosives would make this matchup even better. After sideboarding, and with the changes I made at the bottom of this post, you'll have half a deck of cards that wreck Goblins: 2 Darkblasts, 3 Smothers, 4 Hydroblasts, and 2 Nev's Disk, 10 counters, 3 Psychatogs, 2 Imps = good times against creatures. If you want even more, you can add Plagues to the side, but I that's really not necessary.

Landstill: 75%. Landstill cannot beat you unless they go aggro. The problem is that they aren't very...umm...fast. There is only one card in their entire deck that you care about: Swords to Plowshares. Tog isn't afraid of WoG and Nev's Disk because if they won't win the counterwar if they try to cast those cards. Nev's Disk doesn't help a resolved Tog because it comes into play tapped. Wog is just clunky. They have 4 Swords to kill your 4 Togs, but you have twice the card draw. If Intuition resolves, they have a very hard time of stopping you from controlling the game. Games go very long, which means you'll find your Morphling if it comes to that. You bring in Back to Basics and 4 Duress, which ensures that they can't attack you with manlands and allows you to punch through their STPs. Against Landstill, DON'T waste Duress early on. As I said, there's only one card to care about, so save all of those Duresses until late in the game. Sculpt a hand of Duress, Duress, Duress, FoW, FoW, Counterspell, Counterspell, Counterspell, Tog or something similar, build a mana base of about 8-10 lands, and you've got it made.

I dislike the Hulk builds because of the mana base. Mana Bases in Legacy are more sensitive than anything else. Tog needs to set up a superior mana base, and its hard to do that when every deck is bombarding you with 4x Wasteland.

I just don't think Deed, Putrefy, and Life of the Loam is worth the green splash when black, blue, and artifacts gives you 85% of that power already.

I don't like Life of the Loam because it's just worse than Deep Analysis in every way. It forces you commit to green mana. It's 8 mana to draw fourcards (4 for Loams, 4 for cycling lands). Deep Analysis is also pretty much uncounterable, and it costs only 6 BLUE mana to draw 4 cards. Life of the Loam may let you win big later on, but Deep Analysis lets you win small starting at an earlier point in the game.

So, to conclude, possible changes to the deck are:

-2 Mana Leak
-1 Psychatog
-1 Deep Analysis
+1 Morphling
+1 Stinkweed Imp
+2 Nev's Disk

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I did not know that Rabid Wombat is a Tier 1 deck - probably because the name makes it sound SOOOO janky. But, I'll go test it out and come back with the news.

Godzilla: I don't play Legacy as much as you do, so I'll take your word that Plague is the answer to Goblins. So I now have the follow-up question: Since there is a limited amount of space in the sideboard, and since Plague is a narrow card, in what order would you recommend the following cards as answers to the metagame AS A WHOLE?

Hydroblast
Smother
Nev's Disk
Engineered Plague

Thanks.

If you have access to Green mana, you get to cast Life from the Loam. If you do that even once, you'll never have problems with Wasteland again.

Also, it allows you to recur your Cephalid Coliseums for truly ridiculous card selection. Even with the threat of Wasteland, you can simply sit on a fetchland and then get your green sources online.

Life from the Loam is absolutely broken in conjunction with fetchlands. Anyone who doesn't want to run it in conjunction with psychatog just has not tested enough. The comparison between this and Deep Analysis is totally unfair, because life from the loam allows you to draw cards from your deck until there are no more cards in your deck, the only bottleneck is mana.

Also, what is the deal with people running only 2 cycle lands? I run 4-5 myself, mainly because they're useful on their own, and you definately want to see one early enough to abuse with a LftL.

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I just don't think Deed, Putrefy, and Life of the Loam is worth the green splash when black, blue, and artifacts gives you 85% of that power already.

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I fail to see how all these cards put together don't make up for the addition of green just like kirdape3 said,

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If you have access to Green mana, you get to cast Life from the Loam. If you do that even once, you'll never have problems with Wasteland again.

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So what possible drawback do you have beyond wasteland which loam takes care of?

Alright, I think I said this before, but I'm not sure. Life of the Loam DOES NOT solve Wasteland against decks in which you care about Wasteland (IE decks with a clock). Why? Because Life of the Loam is a mid-late game card. Think about it. Do you really think you can survive the Goblin onslaught if you're busy tapping out during the mainphases of your first few turns just to get back a friggin DEAD LAND? Me neither. Life of the Loam doesn't answer the fact that Wasteland still costs you a land drop, that it forces you to waste crucial, crucial, CRUCIAL early turns getting back that lost land, and it's too slow to matter against most decks.

It's not even about losing the green mana. It's about losing your land drop that will kill you. Say you've got a Tropical Island, an Polluted Delta, and an Island in play on turn three. You pass the turn, they untap, cast a Goblin. Then they lay down Wasteland and Bam! You untap on turn 4 with just two lands in play. Tog cannot afford to lose land drops. Goblins can afford to lose a land to kill your land because it's ahead in tempo, but you can't. Don't ever forget that Wasteland isn't just about color screw. It's 95% of the time about the tempo. You may be able to get back that lost land with Loam, but you'll NEVER get back that lost land drop.

That Life of the Loam can get back killed lands is not an arguement against U/B Tog because U/B doesn't run killable lands in the first place.

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Life from the Loam is absolutely broken in conjunction with fetchlands. Anyone who doesn't want to run it in conjunction with psychatog just has not tested enough. The comparison between this and Deep Analysis is totally unfair, because life from the loam allows you to draw cards from your deck until there are no more cards in your deck, the only bottleneck is mana.

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I've tested both U/B and Loam-A-Tog. In fact, I tested Loam-A-Tog before even considering U/B. The only reason I went to U/B at all is because Loam-A-Tog failed to impress me enough. Was Loam-A-Tog better than preRavnica builds? Of course. Does it take another step up by going to Loamless Dredge-A-Tog? Yes.

Loam allows you to draw cards until there are no cards left in your deck if you're given unlimted time and you just assume that the other guy doesn't keep up with his/her own draw engine and that they don't put any pressure on you. If the other guy is a piece of wood, then sure Loam is insane. The problem is, and we can see this so clearly in the Ruel vs. Loam-A-Tog finals of PT:LA, that a good opponent with a good deck will never give you the chance to just sit there and draw cards with the worlds slowest engine. If you read the reports, you'd see that Ruel just kept countering the Loam or let it through. Meanwhile, the LoamATog deck was so busy Loaming that Ruel simply cast a Tog and won. In the Tortoise vs. the Hare race, Loam is the Tortoise and blue-based draw is the Hare. The Tortoise will win if the Hare decides to fall asleep, but you can't expect the Hare to do that every time.

Do you think Goblins cares about Life of the Loam? Do you think Solidarity cares about Life of the Loam? Do you think Rabid Wombat, with it's maindeck Phyrexian Furnaces, cares about Life of the Loam? Atleast Deep Analysis can be hardcast once before Furnace stops its flashback.

Extended has fetchlands as well, but U/B Ruel Tog still won the Pro Tour. After beating up the Tog deck that DID run Loam. 3 to null.

This brings me to Pernicious Deed and Putrefy. Running UBG Tog, you send the message that you want UU by turn 2, and B and green by turn 3. Thats one Underground Sea, one Tropical Island, one basic Island by turn 3, ideally, to cast a turn 3 Putrefy if the situation calls for that play. Then they Wasteland your Tropical Island and you're in trouble.

And what does Life of the Loam do about Rishadan Port? Good Goblin decks run 4x Wasteland and 4x Rishadan Port, and UBG can't get its green with that kind of mana denial. U/B on the other hand? Doesn't give a D@MN.

By running green, you're allowing the opposing deck to use it's tempo control elements on you. You're telling it that it predicted the metagame correctly because you, indeed, are very susceptible to mana denial. You're reinforcing into your opponent that they can in fact screw you over because you allowed them to. You're saying: "Well, I suppose you can have this match because I'm letting you mess with my game, and you took the opportunity to make sure you would. I guess you're one step ahead of me."

By running two colors and 90% basic lands, you say "HAH! You thought you had this matchup because you could mess with my game, but now you know that I made sure you couldn't. I guess I'm one step ahead of you!"

Splashing colors almost always sounds good in theory. More colors correlates splashier, funnier, cooler tricks. It doesn't correlate to the mundane task called winning. Please, please test the deck, or you're really missing out one some good Philly tech.

EDIT: I made another change to the deck:

-1 Imp (we now have one Imp again)
+1 Nev's Disk

-4 Chrome Mox
+2 Island
+1 Cephalid Coliseum
+1 Underground Sea

Nev's Disk has been really useful in wiping out Humilities, Pithing Needles, Crucibles, Goblins, etc. I think it's better than Cunning Wish, but I'm not so sure.

I'm going down to just one Imp because you can go off just fine with one Imp and one Darkblast. Darkblast is just 3 cards, but usually you're able to Dredge so many cards that it doesn't really matter that much.

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Originally Posted by Alvin6688

Why Stinkweed Imp over Troll? Because that extra Dredge has not once made a difference between killing them and dying. Not once.

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I think this statement is egregiously incorrect. But then again, we're playing signifcantly different builds. I'll say this though... because of my curiosity about the differences between Imp and Troll, I've been paying close attention to my damage during test games. I am within one or two points of killing my opponent nearly half of my games. This is after Dredging 3-4 Trolls. Imps in the same situation would have netted me 3-4 less cards in the yard, hence 2 less damage. This is very relevant.

However, it's possible that our strategies are very different. I play my build like straight up combo. I goldfish a turn 4 kill in nearly half my games, and turn 5 kills are far more common than anything after it. This is due in part to the fact that I'm running 8 Dredge cards (3 Loam, 3 Troll, 2 Darkblast) and 6 cycling lands. Like you, I'm running Deep Analysis for tricky Intuition combos. Unlike you, I'm not running AK because it's counterable, and I usually want my Intuitions to grab 2 Trolls and a DA for 18 cards in my yard on my next turn.

I'm not necessarily saying it's absolutely incorrect, it's just that it's as relatively slow against aggro as Life from the Loam and 2 cycling lands, but is significantly worse in the control matchup because it's a one shot, counterable draw engine, where the Loam engine is reusable and is, for all intents and purposes, uncounterable.

Aside from the strength of Putrefy (which answers the pesky Pithing Needle problem to a large extent), Life from the Loam alone makes the green splash worth it. Honestly? My manabase is attrocious. With 6 cycling lands and 8 duals, it's utterly terrible. That said, my attrocious manabase is irrellevant for a few reasons: a) if necessary, I can operate at 3 mana without a lot of trouble, b) Mox Diamonds and a few basic lands mean I can maintain a decent amount of protected mana, c) Life from the Loam makes mana denial strategies largely irrellevant, d) I'm running 26 manasources so I rarely miss a land drop, and e) I typically win before recurring mana denial strategies are relevant to my gameplan.

Because of these reasons, I don't think that the Wasteland issue is a compelling enough reason not to play 3 colors, particularly when Wasteland's presence is vastly overestimated in the metagame. Gro, Wombat, Burn, Angel Control, Tog, MBC, RGSA, High Tide combo, basically every other combo, and hell, even many Landstill builds aren't running Wastelands anymore. You pretty much have Goblins as the only tier 1 deck consistently maindecking Wasteland.

Furthermore, I feel you're ignoring the ability to play around Wastelands with Fetchlands. You simply don't crack a Fetch until you're ready to cast a Loam. Then you get your Fetch back along with two other lands, and replay your Fetch. Then you don't crack that Fetch until you're ready to play Loam again. Unless your opponent has resolved a Crucible, they're losing tempo and a card every time they Waste one of your lands. You, on the other hand, are getting back every land that was removed, and are drawing cards to boot, while simultaneously filling your 'yard. Card advantage ftw.

Life from the Loam is not to be underestimated. It provides an uncounterable draw engine to the deck, as well as feeding the 'yard for your Tog. There's very little not to like about it.

As for Deed, I don't run it. I do run Genesis and Brawn, however. Brawn is additional evasion to supplement Wonder, and Genesis is the number one reason you have an upper hand against dedicated control. Lastly, if the game goes long, Golgari Grave-Troll can be hardcast and provides somewhere between a 4/4 and 5/5 regenerating beatstick to seal games where your opponent has forced you into a war of attrition.

Green splash? Thumbs up, I say. It's damn good times. Also because Naturalize in the board gives you answers to most singificant hindrances to your strategy.

EDIT: It occurs to me I've been talking a lot about strategy and haven't actually posted my decklist, which makes it difficult to discuss with any degree of meaningfulness. The following list is still undergoing fine-tuning and testing. Credit to Josh Sylvestri (Artowis) for the initial concept:

//NAME: Dredge-a-Tog
// Mana
2 Island
1 Swamp
4 Underground Sea
4 Tropical Island
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Lonely Sandbar
3 Barren Moor
3 Mox Diamond

// Creatures
4 Psychatog
3 Golgari Grave-Troll
1 Wonder
1 Brawn
1 Genesis

// Search & Draw
4 Brainstorm
3 Life from the Loam
3 Intuition
2 Deep Analysis

// Disruption
3 Daze
4 Force of Will

// Removal
2 Darkblast
3 Putrefy

// Sideboard
SB: 4 Chalice of the Void
SB: 4 Pithing Needle
SB: 4 Engineered Plague
SB: 3 Naturalize

Again, note that this is unlike most of the Hulkish builds listed here. In fact, strategically, it's like a combination of the Hulkish builds and Alvin's build. This one is light on the control elements and goes straight for the throat. It can race Goblins. It can even race Solidarity, if need be. It has Plague and Chalice, respectively, for these matchups post-SB. Needle is there as an answer to problems like Crypt, Phyrexian Furnace, and, well... the rest of the format, really. Naturalize is also a generalized answer to these problems, as well as others like Humility, for example.

As stated, it's still very much in the optimization stage, but early testing has been quite positive thus far.

Has Tolarian Winds been considered? With Dredg/Madness all over the place, it seems like it might be a viable Wish target. But I haven't seen a Cunning Wish on the decklist...yet.

Also, I think Careful Study would be a better choice in this deck than Brainstorm. Flame on.