Legacy Grixis Dredge

by TheSwarmer on 23 February 2024

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (14 cards)

Creatures (1)


Sorceries (1)


Instants (3)

Artifacts (2)


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Deck Description

It has been years since dredge was *the* fast degenerate thing to do in legacy. Nowadays there are both faster and more resilient powerful things to be doing. This has forced dredge to bifurcate as a strategy.

On the one hand you have LED turbo dredge lists, running Anger alongside Volcanic Islands and Poxwalkers to win as early as turn 1. A balls to the wall, shields down, no lube, feast or famine type strategy.

On the other hand, Blue Dredge emerged as the card advantage counterpart to the combo LED dredge lists. With Force of Will and Daze, the deck is able to interrupt one or two key plays and win via overwhelming card advantage - something easy to come by when you have 75% of your deck available to you and need next to no mana to use it.

What I have here is a spin on Blue Dredge, a slightly slower, more interractive pile that relies on Grief instead of Force of Will, alongside Daze for interaction. This allows us to run Faithless Looting alongside Careful Study and Otherworldly Gaze, thus providing interaction at the cost of some, but not much, speed.

Running Grief over Force also makes for much more effective Cabal Therapy sessions.

NOTE: It is possible that a Daze + Grief build simply widens the play/draw disparity, something better abused by Turbo Dredge and better attenuated by Blue Dredge, making this deck a bad idea in more combo-heavy metagames.

How to Play

The basic idea is plain to see, the advanced strategy is the type of thing you write a book about (maybe not, anyone read Gush?).

It is not clear whether Ichorid is better than Poxwalkers. The card is slower (despite having haste) but easier to fire (not requiring a Narcomoeba trigger).

Also, Dread Returning a Grief is a very valuable piece of interaction.

Deck Tags

  • Legacy
  • Dredge
  • Blue Dredge
  • Grixis
  • Tempo
  • Card Advantage

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Deck Format


Legacy

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

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