Budget Dredless Dredge - Cat Combo

Pioneer Budget BUG (Sultai) Dredge Reanimator

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Creature (25)

• 4x Cauldron Familiar
• 2x Deathrite Shaman
• 4x Merfolk Secretkeeper
• 4x Stitcher's Supplier
• 2x Heir of Falkenrath  ^Flip
• 2x Satyr Wayfinder
• 3x Scrapheap Scrounger
• 4x Prized Amalgam

Land (21)

• 2x Dismal Backwater
• 3x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 3x Island
• 2x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp

Sorcery (7)

• 2x Nature's Spiral
• 4x Creeping Chill
• 1x Driven / Despair

Instant (3)

• 3x Grisly Salvage

Artifact (4)

• 4x Witch's Oven

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 4x Natural State
• 2x Abrupt Decay
• 2x Negate

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Divest
• 1x Duress

Artifact (4)

• 2x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 2x Damping Sphere

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My personal take on Pioneer Dredgless Dredge! In an absolutely budget fashion...

The plan is play early self-mill with Stitcher's Supplier or Merfolk Secretkeeper and then sacrifice them with Witch's Oven to bring a Cauldron Familiar and luckily some Prized Amalgams. Scrapheap Scrounger functions as an alternate engine to activate the amalgams and it's himself a good beater.

I gave the spotlight to Heir of Falkenrath   over Haunted Dead as I find her to be more effective in the overall gameplan, once she doesn't require two discards and give us a flying threat that can act as a good finisher in some cases. Of course, the trade-off of having less creatures that can come back from the graveyard is a little harsh, but I believe Cauldron Familiar and his life gain/drain compensates for this lack of bodies.

I opted for only one copy of Driven / Despair it it's often necessary just one activation to close the game and it's almost guaranteed it ends in our graveyard. I also choose not to include any Narcomoeba as drawing them in the midgame/opening hand feels absolutely infuriating and a dead draw.

At last Deathrite Shaman is an all-star, accelerating the game plan. It can gain us life, inflict our opponent damage and give us the missing colour using our dead Evolving Wilds. His major problem is the risck his gets banned any time soon.

All suggestions are welcomed, feel free to disagree and give me a shout out where you think I can improve this list.

Thanks in advance!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 2 Rares 14 - 4 Uncommons 18 - 9 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.90
Tokens	Food