


Alternatively, I hear Mind Slicer is good with recursion. The optimal play seemed to almost always be to reanimate Terastodon a few times early game and remove everyone's lands. Hermit Druid, even when running a few basics is ridiculous.īazaar of Baghdad + ways to get it gives you crazy card advantage. but I would imagine Mimeoplasm would be just as crazy. I had Karador, specifically focusing on NOT comboing. It just wins too easily unless someone has mass graveyard hate. Quote from Rebel7284I tried dredge and it was too uninteractive for my tastes. I still need 10-15 cards or so to complete it, but it seems really fun. Similarly, Sakura-Tribe Elder and friends are good fixing on their own, and are even better in this deck because they add to the creature count in the graveyard.įinally, mass removal like Damnation can be really one sided, because you actively want creatures in your graveyard, and in black/green you have lots of ways of getting those creatures back if need be. Also, Worm Harvest seems pretty disgusting in this deck, especially with Scapeshift and Life from the Loam.Ĭards like Shriekmaw and Bone Shredder are great because they are removal, and you can make them go straight to the graveyard (to make Jarad/the Lhurgoyfs bigger) or not, depending on what the situation calls for. Jarad can also win through general damage pretty quickly with enough creatures in the yard. The basic strategy is to mill yourself and get a bunch of creatures in the yard, then cast one of the Lhurgoyf variants (including Jarad) and smash face with it, finishing off by flinging the large creatures for lots of damage. It's not complete yet, but it runs a bunch of dredgers, reanimate spells, cards that want creatures/lands/cards in the graveyard, and cards that want to be in the graveyard.Ĭards that want creatures in the graveyard:Ĭards that want to be in the graveyard/work well with dredging: Good questions! I'm actually in the middle of exploring a Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord dredge deck. My other question is would it be possible to create an aggro-combo deck that is graveyard based similar to Dredge as it is in other formats?

So my question is, what would be an interesting direction to take Dredge in? Whether it be a specific general/colors or perhaps a strategy or combo that might be interesting. The last two sounded really interesting, GBx does seem a little too obvious for Dredge, maybe other color combinations are worth investigating for a Dredge style deck.

However I looked for other peoples takes on Dredge and I've seen people doing things like Damia, Mimeoplasm, Karador even Riku and Ulasht. And I hadn't seen any dedicated Dredge style decks for Jarad. The biggest question is what colors and along with that, what General? My immediate thoughts went to Jared, Golgari Lich Lord since he's obviously in the colors for it and his first ability screams Dredge. However, I'm not really sure where to start outside of the obvious which is obviously the Dredge cards themselves. That list made me want to try making my own unique take on Dredge in EDH. I saw Gaka's Dredgric list and I though it was really awesome, it was a really unique take on both Dredge in EDH and Edric himself. And I really wanted to see if I could make Dredge work in EDH. I really loved the aggro-combo graveyard decks, they were so unique and crazy and different from the rest of magic that I had to play them no matter how bad or good they were. Since then I've played Dredge in Extended and Legacy, I've played a variety of self mill decks in standard and modern, I've play all sorts of reanimator and other graveyard based decks as well. Dredge is one of my favorite mechanics ever, although funnily enough the first time I saw Dredge I thought it was awful, why would you want to mill yourself and skip a draw to get back one card? But once I figured out that not only is getting a card back from the graveyard good, often the downside of Dredge is actually all upside and getting the card back was just the icing on top.
