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I particularly like Spell Queller since it can answer Life from the Loam, thereby neutering the power of Conflagrate, and it pressures them in the air while you focus on handling their ground creatures. You don’t want to go out of your way to add protection cards to your deck because counterspells and discard are only effective in small doses against Dredge (typically to strip an early enabler or counter a key Conflagrate), but having a few will give you a powerful “protect the queen” strategy that you can execute. Like Leyline of the Void, Dredge essentially can’t operate while Rest in Peace is on the battlefield, so it’s best supplemented by cards that protect it from opposing removal, like Thoughtseize out of Leyline decks and Spell Queller or counterspells out of decks with Rest in Peace. The recouped explosiveness is due to additional reach, but that reach is irrelevant if they have no battlefield presence to back it up.
DREDGE EDH UPDATE
I analyzed the different kinds of graveyard hate when Dredge first emerged in Modern, and much of what I wrote then stands true today, but there are some things to update now that Golgari Grave-Troll is out of the format.įirst is that Rest in Peace is more effective, because the deck still doesn’t get on the battlefield as quickly as it used to. That said, graveyard hate does have a critical role to play in combating Dredge, but it’s one tool to be used in concert with other forms of disruption, not a universally effective sledgehammer for the matchup. In a format as diverse as Modern you simply can’t devote the necessary sideboard space to hate cards for a single deck in order to turn those cards into a plan in and of themselves. A Turn 4 Rest in Peace or Relic of Progenitus is likely not going to be good enough even if they don’t have an answer, because by then the damage is likely already done. If the opponent has an answer or you fail to find a hate card, you’re a huge underdog.Īnd against Dredge, you need to find that hate card quickly. That means you’ll have to draw your hate cards in both sideboard games to consistently win the matchup, and that’s against an opponent who’s prepared for your hate. On a fundamental level, if you’re relying on hate cards to win any matchup, you’re essentially conceding Game 1. This is a poor approach to the matchup for several reasons. Dredge has a reputation as a deck that’s miserable to play against, which causes many players to skimp on testing against it and rely on their hate cards to do the heavy lifting against a linear deck. Many players are going to react in a very predictable way: adding a few more copies of their preferred graveyard hate card and calling it a day.
DREDGE EDH HOW TO
Being that Dredge is the Modern deck that I have the most experience with, here’s my advice for how to prepare for the upcoming sea of Stinkweed Imps and Conflagrates. Creeping Chill has not fundamentally altered the deck, merely allowed it to recoup some of the explosiveness it lost when Golgari Grave-Troll was rebanned. Paradoxically, during deckbuilding, that also resulted in me not playing quite as many Insects, but the focus isn’t actually on the natural Grist hit rate with that +1.Īs always, if you like the deck and would like to try it out yourself, you can use the Streamdecker link at the bottom to order the whole thing at once or pick up any pieces you need here at means it’s up to you to learn how to beat the deck.
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While that was a fun one, I’m not going to be bound by a budget restriction for this build, so we should see a little bit of an uptick in card quality. One of them was an Insect Tribal deck featuring Izoni, Thousand-Eyed as the commander – you can read all about it right here. With that in mind, how do we build around Grist? My mind goes back to last summer, when I built four Mystery Decks for CommandFest 2. So why can Grist be your commander? Well, Grist is a 1/1 Insect creature anywhere but the battlefield, and that ability means that (nearly) anywhere, anytime, Grist is a creature, thanks to a Grist-specific rule that you’ll be able to actually read once the rules update comes out ( Magic’s Rules Manager, Jess Dunks, has been pretty clear on this one! ).