Dragon Skred in 2021
Modern forum
Posted on June 28, 2021, 10:25 p.m. by NTakamura
I know skred dragons/skred red is a deck that does not see much play, which is one of the reason why I built one recently. So my question is, out of standard and modern release from this past year, has there been any new tools for this archetype, in your opinion.
I feel that is true. I was excited for kaldeim but once the set was released it didn’t even have all that much red snow spells. It is kind of unfortunate. I think you should build it despite the support and just have fun with it. That is my thoughts on it.
TriusMalarky says... #2
As someone who really really wants to build skred,
No. We got Frost Bite which is like copies 5-8 of Skred. Which isn't what we needed. Oh, and Faceless Haven is okay.
The only unique thing about Skred is snow. Otherwise, you might as well play Ponza. And Snow as a mechanic is pretty underwhelming, and rightfully so.
Snow is a mechanic that cannot get all that much support. It has very little actual cost, meaning that if snow was really worth it everybody would be playing it. Just look at Arcum's Astrolabe , a singular snow card that made snow worth playing by removing the singular downside to snow. It got banned everywhere. It was far too good.
Unfortunately, Skred isn't getting any more support anytime soon, possibly ever. It is a good fun red goodstuff deck that will be good enough to compete basically forever(unless they stop printing red goodstuff).
June 29, 2021 2:01 p.m.