
Although the looting alone is very strong in this deck. Red adds looting, potential access to the strongest wincon (with Green and Black), Gamble, and not a whole lot else. Red: A solid, but not amazing color for a dredge deck. Some of what it adds includes: some big beaters (sewer nemesis), reanimation, dredge (the mechanic), tutors, straight-to-the-graveyard tutors, and a little card draw. The best additions from blue are card draw, looting, laboratory maniac, counterspells, and a couple misc self mill cards.īlack: One of the two “holy grail” colors for dredge. Counterspells are also very nice to have.

The biggest additions are a couple solid lands, some tutors, land tax, some ability to return lands from the ‘yard to the field, land tax, some protection from graveyard hate, and land tax.īlue: The nicest part of blue is the access to instant speed card draw, and thus instant speed dredge (the mechanic). White: White adds the least to a dredge deck. Let’s go over what each color can add to a dredge list. Yes, we have a couple methods of doing so, depending on the colors. Most edh metas have some but not a restrictive amount of it, if yours is significantly higher than normal (an average of more than 1.5 cards per deck or so), then dredge is probably not for you. It is extremely difficult to play around graveyard hate.

Playing a dredge deck means at the very least playing magic in a very unconventional way, and often winning in a very unconventional way as well.

While those decks do play out somewhat like a dredge list does, the decks I’m talking about aren’t at the same level of “win almost every single game because the banlist isn’t balanced”ĭredge is an archetype based around dropping cards into your graveyard, usually straight from the library, and winning as a direct result through various means. NOTE: I will not be covering Creatureless Oath or Angry Hermit. The best archetype in EDH, now with a mini-primer for your convenience.
