TheSwarmer

Okay, what? xD
[[Putrid Imp]] is shit nowadays; too slow, too unimpactful, don't run it except for religious reaons.
4 [[Breakthrough]] is extremely excessive. [[Ox Of Agonas]] should be played instead as at least 1 of.
4x [[Cabal Therapy]] is a necessity while [[Wreck and Rebuild]] is just bad in a shell like this and [[Life From the Loam]] serves little to no purpose as the game should be over before the lands matter and dredge super low compared to the other options.
[[Poxwalkers]] and [[Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis]] should be included.
lion's eye diamond for speed and optimal build viability in the metagame.
[[Prized Amalgam]] is too slow for legacy and not worth running
4 [[Ichorid]] is too much in a deck with so few black creatures, many of which are dredgers or other Ichorids.

Lastly, the sideboard of a dredge deck should consist of nothing but answers to opposing graveyard hate (e.g., [[into the flood maw]], [[portable hole]], etc.) and hate against combo decks that are even faster (e.g., [[leyline of the void]]).

Also, you'll want some very high impact shit for [[Dread Return]] to make sense, I'm talking [[Duskana, the Rage Mother]] or [[Satoru, the Infiltrator]] or at least a manabase of fetches and duals with mountain types and [[Anger]] to make [[Dread Return]] on a [[Golgari Grave-Troll]] lethal (a play that is made much weaker with every [[Ichorid]] included in the deck).

Seems much much better. Focused and aggressive. [[Siege-Gang Commander]] may be hard to cast, but I am very partial towards the card, too many memories of playing with it when I was 9 years old or something. I love it. And I suppose there is some tension between [[Lava Spike]] and the fact that the rest of the deck is an aggressive tribal creature deck. Like a turn 1 lava spike is much much worse than a turn 1 goblin as that 1 goblin will attack multiple times, or eat a removal spell after doing some damage, or stress the opponent's blockers 3 turns down the line, or enable [[Goblin Grenade]]. BUT [[Lava Spike]] is better against board clears so it is not objectively wrong to run it. Nevertheless, cards like [[Legion Loyalist]], [[Foundry Street Denizen]], or [[goblin rabblemaster]] *may* be better.

Oh also, for aggressive creature-based red decks, [[Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure]] can be really really good in cases where taking 3 damage is irrelevant.

Damn, this shit is cool as fuck! Only thing is that 4 [[Force of Negation]] just seems excessive, especially with so many non-blue cards. Also, do you think you can fit a Triome land in there to cast Fire? Like, surely you don't need 3 surveil lands,

Generally, cards like [[Raging Goblin]] indicate you want the game to be over asap, certainly before cards like [[Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet]] and [[Butcher of Malakir]] come into play. Furthermore, the odds of being able to cast these cards on curve are below 20% in a deck with 22 lands. Lastly, [[Goblin Chieftain]] and [[Goblin Grenade]] in a deck with so few goblins is kind of sketchy.

It just seems like the deck is trying to go into too many directions. Reminds me of a lot of the decks I built around the time I started playing, but the concept is more solid than me using [[Flame Slash]] to make [[Phytohydra]] not shit xD.

Also, casting [[Gatekeeper of Malakir]] for BBB in a deck where only half the mana sources provide black is very, very, very sketchy. Why not make 2 decks, a midrange vampire one, with high quality threats and removal such as [[Vampire Nighthawk]] and another goblin deck, a mostly red one with a slight black splash for [[Slavering Nulls]] and mayble lords like [[Mad Auntie]].

I mean, I also don't have the money for Legacy, but that doesn't meant I am into self-harm.
I am mostly saying all this in jest, but it genuinely pains me to look at the state of modern. I genuinely think the game would be better off if everyone stopped playing it.

Oldschool [[Elvish Ranger]] >>> [[Dryad Sophisticate]].
[[Basandra, Battle Seraph]] for bdsm enjoyers.
[[Guul Draz Vampire]] A.S.S.
[[Jaya Ballard, Task Mage]] for latex fans.
[[Razia, Boros Archangel]] for men who like calling girls mommy.
[[Soul Collector]] for goth girl fans.
[[Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts]] for Basic Instinct enjoyers.
And who could forget [[Quirion Dryad]]
And personally, I am a fan of [[Disciple of the Old Ways]] and [[Vampire Hexmage]].

I now realize I have been playing this game for too fucking long xD

Man, just switch to legacy, please xD It's like every interesting idea you come up with for modern is this herculean effort to make a suboptimal strategy work in this misbegotten format while legacy has that same strategy posting 5-0 league results online at least 3 times a month.

All that said, I hate the spell pierce art you chose, and 4 [[Force of Negation]] seems too heavy.

In a more black-centric build, yeah. But since we only have 2 swamps, not really. All you really need to win is Mystic anyway, the card takes over the game so rapidly it's kind of insane.

Generally, if you are playing flash creatures, your deck is gonna run at least 12 faeries, hence the relevance of the human subtype on the otherwise extremely shitty 1/2.

The problem with decks like this is that they are 2017 decks; they have been power-crept out of the format completely : (

Almost every card in the deck is severely, extremely underpowered. The only even vaguely playable flash creature in the format, besides [[Spellstutter Sprite]] of course, is [[Brinebarrow Intruder]] because of how badly it fucks up Mono Red and how elegantly it enables [[Of One Mind]].

IDK man, this simultaneously feels like a worse Murktide and a worse Goryo's Vengence deck. I do really enjoy the Tamiyo angle though, it gives the deck much more range, a whole new angle of attack.

Power creep has kind of fucked pauper, though not as much as it has every other format. Though the format is relatively healthy all things considered. There's always a boogeyman to beat, what can you do.

As of today, it is the most popular deck in the metagame at ~20% representation in MTGO leagues, with madness burn at ~3%.

Campfire, though a lovely card and my preferred "win condition" for decks like this, is simply too slow. And sometimes a liability too as some burn opponents will sideboard in [[smash to smithereens]].

I don't think St. Peter is going to accept that answer.

I hate the card myself tho. But it is stupid how much it counters, and how relevant that tempo swing can be. Being on the draw and hitting Ajani or Ruby medallion on the opponent's 2nd turn is fucking huuuuuge.

What are you going to say to St. Peter when he confronts you at the pearly gates about why your Modern Izzet deck did not run [[Spell Snare]] in 2025?

I gotta disagree, [[Blind Obedience]] impacts next to no modern decks, and draining an average of 1 life a turn cannot possibly be worth 2 mana and a card. I suppose it is good against reanimator and Ragavan, but that's just about everything, no?

Since [[Rip Apart]] does not get rid of [[The One Ring]], I feel like fewer copies of this 2 mana worse lightning bolt are warranted and more copies of [[Damn]] should be played instead, so that playing from behind against tokens and fast mana and 2 mana 7/7 murktides and unearthed oculi becomes more feasible (imagine you are on the draw against mardu or boros, before you can even think about resolving [[High Noon]] they have 3 creatures in play, with 2-4 more coming next turn).

Also, with the amount of discard, a way to convert a turn 9 [[Thoughtseize]] draw into a viable card would probably be pretty good. Something like [[geier reach sanitarium]] that does not require much deck-building commitment. I cannot think of a card that does it well in mardu colors tho.

Also, with [[Bitterblossom]] being essentially the only win condition, do you think the deck could support a 1-of archangel's vault?

xDD I doubt you're the first person to lose sleep due to being haunted by a draft common. But again, I think most examples like this are either cards that were intentionally powered down to balance a limited format, or essentially intentional jokes like [[Razor Boomerang]]. At least that's my (and Occam's) 2 cents.

So, if mtg ever dies before our entire species does, it will be because of power creep. I mean, holy hell, Bank of America basically said to Hasbro, "Look, are you guitarded? Acoustic? You are completely mismanaging your golden cow - MTG - by overprinting shit and going way too fast so that number go up, but motherfucker, number can't go up forever, trust us".

So yeah, power creep is a thing. I mean take any eternal format you like and look at how many of the most played cards are from the last few horizons sets. There is no arguing otherwise. I mean, FIRE design, standard bannings, the utter, unmitigated shitshow that is the rotating modern format - the pressure to sell product, to make line go up encourages power creep like nothing else; if the new cards are broken, people have to buy em to keep competing, ergo big sales, ergo line go up.

As for Veteran's Powerblade, that's easy, just a matter of balancing limited formats in my book, same reason we have Makeshift Munitions at common in some sets, same reason why I own over 30 copies of [[Smoldering Efreet]].

First of all, Dismember is not black, that's insane what's next? [[Mutagenic Growth]] is green? Madness.

[[Kozilek, the Broken Reality]] just seems bad here - like overkill, the sort of card that is only good when you're already ahead and any other haymaker would do the trick. There is reason why all these decks run [[devourer of destiny]] instead of cards like kozilek.

Also kudos to you for calling it tribal not kindred, and for daring to not maindeck a single one ring, though I can't imagine that's optimal in any way except the financial one.