More Dredge, Less Vine

Modern Dredge

MightyPazza

Land (20)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 3x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 3x Copperline Gorge
• 2x Dakmor Salvage
• 2x Gemstone Mine
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Stomping Ground
• 4x Wooded Foothills

Creature (24)

• 4x Bloodghast
• 3x Golgari Thug
• 1x Haunted Dead
• 4x Insolent Neonate
• 4x Narcomoeba
• 4x Prized Amalgam
• 4x Stinkweed Imp

Sorcery (16)

• 4x Cathartic Reunion
• 3x Conflagrate
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 4x Faithless Looting
• 4x Life from the Loam

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 2x Abrupt Decay
• 2x Ancient Grudge
• 2x Darkblast
• 1x Gnaw to the Bone
• 2x Lightning Axe

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 3x Thoughtseize

Creature (1)

• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh

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While I still enjoy my Dredgevine I feel like it can be taken in a better direction. When I was developing my list I was pointed towards Lee Shi Tian's deck which I happily took some great ideas from.

So I have done away with the Vengevine plan as it was proving to be too mana intensive and required a lot of hoops to be jumped through. This new dredge build has shifted to the more attrition style of decks.

Utilising free and recurable creatures like Narcomoeba, Bloodghast and the new Prized Amalgam. This build allows for both a highly aggressive start and a more grindy attrition mid-late game. This is due to you constantly are gaining both card and mana advantage against your opponent as it costs them resources to answer your threats while it costs you nothing to bring them back again and again.

This decks engine is the keyword Dredge; by running Golgari Grave-Troll, Stinkweed Imp, Life from the Loam & Dakmor Salvage as well as the Darkblasts from the sideboard, you are able to maintain a constant flow of cards hitting your graveyard.

You get these dredgers initially in to the graveyard via Faithless Looting, Tormenting Voice and the other new Innistrad card Insolent Neonate.

My favourite part of this build is that if you go to the long game you can use Conflagrate as a finisher. By playing and dredging back Life from the Loam, each time filling your hand with lands which allows you to discard Conflagrate for a large amount.

Sideboard choices Show

Ancient Grudge Pretty self explanatory, fantastic artifact removal with flashback. To be brought in against Affinity, Lantern Control, Tron & Merfolk (not all three).

Darkblast Great against Infect, Affinity & decks with mana-dorks. Also worth remembering that it can be used to remove X/2s by playing during upkeep before dredging.

Duress/Inquisition of Kozilek While Thoughtseize is the better card, Duress hits all the same cards you want to hit with a Thoughtseize. You want it for matches against control decks to remove their graveyard hate like Rest in Peace and great for (non-creature) combo decks.

Gnaw to the Bone Insane life gain with flashback. To be brought in against Burn and Zoo variants.

Golgari Charm I love modal cards, it can be used as a mini sweeper (against affinity and infect) with its -1/-1; It can also hit an early bogle, enchantment removal & regenerating creatures can surprise an opponent. It has also proven to be a great card against Anger of the Gods the only sweeper (besides Ugin) that you need to worry about.

Lightning Axe Is for the decks like Jund that run larger creatures; like Scavenging Ooze, Tarmogoyf & Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet. The discard is a small bonus as it cant be prevented as it is part of the casting cost.

If you have any thoughts or ideas please share them I am happy to take them on board as I think this deck has a strong future in the modern format.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	29 - 8 Rares 13 - 4 Uncommons 16 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.02
Tokens	Spirit 1/1 W
Folders	Modern