There was very little deviation in Dredge lists in Milwaukee, and you can expect a Dredge opponent to be playing something close to this: It's all about consistent Prized Amalgams, Bloodghasts, and Conflagrates now. Dredge was really looking for something that could make the deck faster, though a two-mana tool with this level of power and consistency was more than enough to get everybody on the same page. The archetype had pretty divided camps, and nothing to rally around as the consensus best build. You would see Bridge from Below in some lists while being absent from others, and for a time even Hedron Crab and Vengevine were seeing fringe play.

With nine Dredge decks in the Milwaukee Open Top 32, ignoring the deck would be irresponsible.ĭredge lists saw some serious fluctuations for a while, and there were somewhat varied plans and enablers. For today's piece, I'm going to break down exactly what the Dredge deck is up to, and what we as players can do to beat it. I mean, if we could get Treasure Cruise back that would be great, but I aim to make the focus of my articles more pragmatic. I don't really care too much or do any speculating on banlist changes. To be clear, once again, this is not an article about banning anything. As lists got more streamlined the deck gained steam online, and now with the addition of Cathartic Reunion we are looking at the making of a new boogeyman. From there it didn't take long for Grave-Troll decks to start popping up in 5-0 league decks and some premier finishes, though Dredge decks were still far from dominant in Modern. For about a year we heard little from the Zombie hoard, until the release of Shadows over Innistrad brought us Prized Amalgam and Insolent Neonate. When they unbanned Golgari Grave-Troll in Modern, we all knew it was only a matter of time.

Mtg dredge delver commander deck