Legacy Dredge deck

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UPDATED MARCH/2022

Dredge is a self-mill-based deck. It draws its name from the Mechanic Dredge and there are two major subtypes of Legacy Dredge decks: Mana-Less and Dredge. It is a powerful strategy that is present in Legacy, Modern and Vintage. It is considered an Aggro-Combo strategy.

Overview

Both types of Dredge decks employ the same self-mill strategy. Although the strategy slightly varies from each one, many of the cards are present in both lists.

Mana-Less Dredge was seen as somewhat of a "meme deck" or a deck of lesser power since it would concede the game most the time the opponent landed a Graveyard-hate permanent on the board - with players even saying things like the strategy of the deck for Graveyard-hate was to concede. But the printing of Force of Vigor changed this and actually put Mana-Less Dredge on the map of competitive Legacy strategies.

The normal Dredge deck is still considered better equipped to handle most of the opponent's answers, but Mana-Less Dredge doesn't fall behind since it can now deal with those answers too.

In the Mana-Less strategy, choosing to go second is usually important since the deck wants to discard the first card to hand size and start the Dredge from there.

Cabal Therapy is a nice option in a Dredge deck since it has a synergy with Bridge from Below.

Watching a Dredge deck in a paper game is interesting since they often open up their Graveyard in a way most decks don't. It is also one of the few decks in which the order of cards in the Graveyard matters.

There are Rogue versions (often without Reserved List cards) of Dredge focusing on Mono-Red and Mono-Blue or, sometimes Blue-Red. Also the Mana-Less version doesn't use cards from the Reserved List

Contemporary Decklists

2nd Place: Dredge - Chad Martire - Land Run Sooner - 04/03/2022
2nd Place: Manaless Dredge - Marnix Van Haegendoren - Demospel (Leuven, Belgium) - 12/11/21

See also