I'd recommend cutting a land to get your fourth Golgari Thug back. It might help get to 2 mana more consistently so that you can cast Collective Brutality, but other than that, the balance seems a bit off. Collective Brutality is more versatile than both, but 2 mana seems like a very steep price to pay.ġ4 lands is an interesting choice. If you need more hand disruption, I'm personally fond of Thoughtseize (although IMO, getting Cabal Therapies #5 and #6 is really more of a sideboard thing than a mainboard thing, and even then, most dredgers don't pack Thoughtseize these days). Is it played in Modern? If you need more discard outlets, Putrid Imp is the traditional pick. There are Rogue versions (often without Reserved List cards) of Dredge focusing on Mono-Red and Mono-Blue or, sometimes Blue-Red.Collective Brutality is an interesting pick. It is also one of the few decks in which the order of cards in the Graveyard matters. Watching a Dredge deck in a paper game is interesting since they often open up their Graveyard in a way most decks don't.

In the Mana-Less strategy, choosing to go second is usually important since the deck wants to discard the first card to hand size and start the Dredge from there.Ĭabal Therapy is a nice option in a Dredge deck since it has a synergy with Bridge from Below. The normal Dredge deck is still considered better equipped to handle most of the opponent's answers, but Mana-Less Dredge doesn't fall behind since it can now deal with those answers too. But the printing of Force of Vigor changed this and actually put Mana-Less Dredge on the map of competitive Legacy strategies. Mana-Less Dredge was seen as somewhat of a ' meme deck' or a deck of lesser power since it would concede the game most the time the opponent landed a Graveyard-hate permanent on the board - with players even saying things like the strategy of the deck for Graveyard-hate was to concede. Although the strategy slightly varies from each one, many of the cards are present in both lists. It is considered an Aggro- Combo strategy.īoth types of Dredge decks employ the same self-mill strategy. It is a powerful strategy that is present in Legacy, Modern and Vintage. It draws its name from the Mechanic Dredge and there are two major subtypes of Legacy Dredge decks: Mana-Less and Dredge.

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