Leading up to the event, I kept crushing leagues on Magic Online with the deck as nobody knew what was going on and there was no graveyard hate going around at the time. The following was the list I brought to the World Magic Cup Qualifier in New Zealand:ģ Thoughtseize Practicing on Magic online I took the theory discussions with Shi Tian and put it into practice, and helped tune out the numbers of the deck, like upping Life from the Loam and Conflagrate to three copies each and building the manabase and the sideboard. Since I had a World Magic Cup Qualifier (WMCQ) coming up at the time and I was still a university student, I had a lot of time to work on the deck. Life from the Loam was the perfect card for the deck, as it helped you guarantee land drops for Bloodghast and flashing back Faithless Looting, as well as growing your hand size to set up a big Conflagrate. That’s when we realised we could adopt the technology of Life from the Loam with Conflagrate that Jason Chung put to good use when he made the Top 8 of GP Melbourne with Zombie Infestation during Eldrazi Winter. We had this idea in the past, but with the printing of the two new cards from Shadows over Innistrad, we finally felt that we had enough tools to make the deck work.Īfter Shi Tian came up with an initial sketch of the deck, we quickly realised that we needed some interaction or else we wouldn’t be able to beat cards like Scavenging Ooze or even a big Tarmogoyf. Shi Tian came up with the concept of using “enablers” ( Faithless Looting, Insolent Neonate and Tormenting Voice) alongside dredge cards ( Stinkweed Imp and Golgari Grave-Troll) to essentially mill our deck, which will reward us with “free” creatures in the form of Bloodghast, Narcomoeba and Prized Amalgam. When Golgari Grave-Troll was unbanned in Modern, it didn’t see any play for quite some time, until mid-2016, when we noticed the potential in Insolent Neonate and Prized Amalgam that was just printed in Shadows over Innistrad. My history with Modern Dredge is, to put it bluntly, helping to create the deck with Hall of Famer and former MPL player Lee Shi Tian. It has taken me multiple years to get all the cards – finding all the Chinese versions of the dredge cards from Ravnica: City of Guilds was extremely difficult! My history with Dredge Exiling all four copies of Prized Amalgam won't feel so good for the Dredge player.This is a photo of my current deck! I still have a couple of cards I want to upgrade, but I am very close to completing it. Similarly, Extirpate can have the same effect at the cost of B, and it has Split-Second (so nothing else can be put onto the stack until Extirpate resolves). ![]() Surgical Extraction costs Phyrexian black mana, meaning blackless decks can cast it for two life, a good way to spend some life points. This won't just exile the targeted creature card it also searches the Dredge player's hand, library and graveyard for all copies of that card, and exiles them all. Hitting five attacking Dredge creatures can set the Dredge player back, and getting five basic lands (if they even have that many) isn't much of a consolation.īlack mana, for its part, can cast Surgical Extraction at instant speed, such as on Bloodghast or Prized Amalgam, or even Ox of Agonas. It may cost 2WW, but Dredge isn't always a turn-four victory deck, meaning that the opponent will likely have time to cast this. Path to Exile can hit one creature, but Settle the Wreckage will hit all attacking creatures, with a similar effect. White is the primary exiling color, and Dredge doesn't like exile. It's common for Jund midrange decks to run this in the mainboard, never mind the sideboard. And if those cards were creatures, the Ooze's controller can gain life and put a +1/+1 counter on the Ooze. Scavenging Ooze is a classic anti-graveyard card, a 2/2 for 1G that can exile cards at will. But be aware that Ox of Agonas and Conflagrate can hit the Crusader since they are mono-red. Bloodghast, Prized Amalgam and Stinkweed Imp can't handle this card, and Abrupt Decay can't hit it, either. ![]() This isn't the premiere anti-Dredge card, but it can take Dredge players off-guard with its protection from black and protection from green. ![]() Some creatures can fight back against Dredge, such as Mirran Crusader. Bojuka Bog is a land that can exile graveyards when it enters the battlefield, and it taps for black mana. In return, it has the classic Leyline effect: it may begin the game already on the battlefield if it's in its owner's opening hand. This effect practically halves the Dredge deck's firepower, and in black mana, Leyline of the Void has a similar effect, though it's more costly. In white mana, Rest in Peace is a go-top option against graveyard-based decks, costing just 1W to exile all graveyards and exiling any other cards that would go there.
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