While Bloodghast might not look like much, it's actually an amazingly powerful card in a Dredge build because it does everything a Dredge deck wants. The second Zendikar addition to Extended Dredge was Bloodghast. As a result, the deck was not only faster but more consistent, thanks to the ability to get twice as many cards in the graveyard. With the help of Hedron Crab, the extended version could get six cards in the graveyard (for no mana) on Turn 2 by simply playing and cracking a fetch land. The Standard deck used Merfolk Looter and Magus of the Bazaar in this role, which could get between one and three cards in the graveyard on Turn 3. The major challenge for a Dredge deck is getting the first dredge card in the graveyard as quickly as possible-the sooner you can do this, the sooner you can start milling your deck and setting up the combo kill. First, the deck gained Hedron Crab, which made all of the random looters like Merfolk Looter from the Standard-legal build of the deck a thing of the past. Major Subtractions: Various "looters" like Merfolk Looter and Bonded Fetch.Įxtended (which was replaced by Modern, in case you weren't playing back in 2011) Dredge played similarly to Standard Dredge-fill the graveyard, flashback Dread Return with several copies of Bridge from Below in the graveyard, and win the game-but with a couple of major additions from Zendikar block. Major Additions: Bloodghast, Hedron Crab, Iona, Shield of Emeria. The key synergy here is Bridge from Below and Dread Return. Once you mill most of your library, it becomes super easy to reanimate a bunch of things for free because whenever you sacrifice creatures to flashback Dread Return, you get a bunch of Zombie tokens from your Bridge from Below, which in turn allows you to flashback even more copies of Dread Return until you win the game with one big combo-esque turn. It would then fill its graveyard at lightning speed with the help of the dredge mechanic, generate a bunch of Zombie tokens with Bridge from Below (sometimes with the help of a sacrifice outlet like Drowned Rusalka), and then finish the game by reanimating Akroma, Angel of Wrath or Flame-Kin Zealot by flashing back Dread Return. The Standard version of Dredge looked to use discard outlets like Llanowar Mentor, Merfolk Looter, and Magus of the Bazaar to get dredgers like Golgari Grave-Troll, Stinkweed Imp, and Life from the Loam into the graveyard. While deck lists from 2007 are spotty at best, Dredge was a big part of the Standard format, and while the support pieces were much, much different than they are today, the basic idea and the key cards remained the same. Wizards, in a move that is now widely considered to be a mistake, made "dredge"-the ability to get a card back from your graveyard by milling X number of cards instead of drawing a card-the mechanic of the Golgari guild. The story of Dredge in Modern starts several years before Modern was even a format, in the original Ravnica Standard format. Anyway, let's break down the evolution of Dredge in Modern! Ravnica Standard-2007 Also, since it's been a while since we've had a Deck Evolutions article, I figured it was worth highlighting some of the old articles, in case you missed them. Today's Dredge Deck Evolutions is actually the fifth installment in the past, we've covered Modern Tron, Legacy Miracles, the now-extinct Modern Twin, and Modern Jund. So, today, we are going to take some time to look over the evolution of the deck, from the very first days of the Modern format up until now, where the deck is so good that some people are suggesting that it may need to be targeted with a banning. Even though the rise of Dredge as a true tier-one deck is relatively new, some form of Dredge deck has been floating around in Modern for years. For the past few months, it has been firmly in the top tier of the format and at times has been the number-one overall deck in Modern.
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