Gitrog County Municipal Lake Dredge Appraisal
Commander / EDH*
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May 24, 2014
The deck is still a work in progress and I'll be doing more testing, but I've made my first round of substitutions. I have cut the following...
Bridge from Below: Without a Leyline of the Void, this will die too quickly to be worthwhile. In a 60-card deck with four of them, it's easy to dredge them into the graveyard and start making an army. I can't count on that here and can't really build around it.
Worm Harvest: This could be a really strong late-game Loam synergy, but I don't have a sufficiently controlling deck to make that an attractive option. I end up with a five-mana sorcery that I don't bother casting because I have better things to do.
Extractor Demon: I realized just how ineffectual unearthing this is in a big multiplayer game with opponents that start at 40 life. I'm unlikely to cast it, so it becomes little more than Ichorid fodder.
Helm of Obedience: Four-mana slots have to do something big to be viable in this deck, and this is really only good with Leyline of the Void or if I get lucky. I don't want to rely on luck that much. It's an artifact and Leyline of the Void is an enchantment, so assembling that two-card combo is difficult in this deck. Also, if people see that I'm trying to assemble that combo, they'll focus me.
Ichorid: Just not as good as in the Vintage or Legacy dredge decks. I have to shift my approach here. Ichorid will very likely be cut.
Leyline of the Void: Inherently weaker than in 60-card decks. Without Bridge from Below or Helm of Obedience, it does little for me. Commander makes getting any individual card harder. Better to just ditch the whole package and focus on what is working here.
Call to the Netherworld: Too situational.
To replace those cards, these are my additions...
Weathered Wayfarer: The plan is to have this as an option for finding Bazaar of Baghdad if I've stalled out and otherwise to use it for completing Dark Depths combos and such.
Shriekmaw: Should be good with Karador.
Fleshbag Marauder: Another creature to play under Karador. Should work nicely with Abyssal Gatekeeper, albeit not against token-based decks.
Birds of Paradise: More mana and can easily be played through Karador.
Avacyn's Pilgrim: More mana and can easily be played through Karador.
Llanowar Elves: More mana and can easily be played through Karador.
Apprentice Necromancer: I'm going to try this out as a Karador synergy. I'm apprehensive about enchantments as recursion tools, since most of them are useless if milled by my dredgers. Apprentice Necromancer could be a bit slow, but it's a creature, which is preferable.