Drop Dead Dredge

by Salient on 11 August 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (16 cards)

Creatures (1)


Instants (4)


Artifacts (2)

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Deck Description

The best dredge deck ever. I am convinced.

Always let the opponent play first, and use the "discard down to seven cards" cleanup-step rule to discard one dredger per turn. If no dredger appears in the seven-card hand, there's several options. 1. You can keep the hand and hope to draw a dredger during the game (good strategy against a slow control deck). 2. You can mulligan for a dredger and the lands necessary to play it (hoping to get it killed early). 3. You can mulligan for a land plus Darkblast (which you hope to use to on an opponent's creature). 4. You can mulligan for Cabal Therapy and any dredger (you can target yourself with Therapy, naming the dredger). All of these strategies are useful in response to powerful graveyard hate like Leyline of the Void, when obtaining an anti-hate answer is your top priority.

Street Wraith accelerates the dredging by cycling, and then feeds Ichorid. (Every creature in the deck except Phyrexian Metamorph can feed Ichorid.) Discard happens before end-of-turn effects trigger, so discarding a Bridge with Ichorid in play will generate a token.

The deck has a catch-all problem-solver: nonland board wipe. Dread Return puts a Child of Alara into play, which you can sacrifice to pay flashback on Cabal Therapy. This wipes even more thoroughly than a Nevinyrral's Disk or Oblivion Stone, and you get to stack the resolution of Bridge From Below triggers so that you get a mess of zombie tokens before opponents' creatures hit the graveyard and your Bridges get exiled. It's even crazier if you have Cabal Therapy in hand, as you can hardcast it to get a peek at the opponent's hand before risking Dread Return.

Dread Return can also target Phyrexian Metamorph to wipe any legendary creature (Emrakul, Progenitus) or artifact (Umezawa's Jitte), or copy the biggest threat on the board. (Sadly, this wipes your Bridges, but at least it's an answer.)

SIDEBOARD

Against combo decks, Leyline of Sanctity can provide immediate protection, and Ethersworn Canonist can be fetched with Enlightened Tutor and played from the hand. Against fast decks, Enlightened Tutor can find a Bridge From Below that will get dumped in the graveyard on the next dredge, or find Hypochondria to blunt the assault. Against most creature-based decks, Enlightened Tutor can find Meekstone (your 3/1 Ichorids die before they untap anyway, and your 2/1 Bloodghast and 2/2 zombie tokens evade meekstone).

To destroy anti-graveyard hate like Relic of Progenitus / Tormod's Crypt / Leyline of the Void, tutor for a Serenity: it even blows up multiple copies of non-creature anti-graveyard hate. Most creature-based hate like Gaddock Teeg or Yixlid Jailer has low toughness, so it can be killed by double Darkblast (playing Darkblast during the upkeep, dredging it, and replaying it during the main phase).

The deck is sort of weak to Painter's Stone strategies (it has to mulligan into or tutor-then-cast a Leyline of Sanctity or Runed Halo). It can race Iona with Ichorids and zombie tokens, but it has no answer to a Grindstone.

This deck can answer threats like Blightsteel Colossus with Meekstone (and enough blockers to absorb some damage) or Runed Halo.

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  • Graveyard

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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