Dredge was a great deck to pilot, because it functioned just fine without the p9. The need to draw graveyard hate in order to start going off significantly slows down the deck and gives the opponent ample opportunity to set up and win before you even get the chance to go off.ĭredge started as an absolute tier 1, but moved to a tier 1,5/2 deck, seeing less play not only because of graveyard hate, but also because of the cultural component: being an auto-play "unfun" deck in the eyes of many players.Īlso, Dredge lost a lot of popularity when "Non-spoilered deck" (decks without P9s) prizes were drastically cut, corresponding to the increase in cost for other common cards, like Bazaar, for instance. In this mana-producing form, the deck regained its strength, but was still fragile and far from perfection. Some versions also played, while many other played along with, though these two options don't deal with an immediate Leyline.Ī better, useable sideboard did allow for more Dredge success, even post-sideboard, and also had new mainboard options with the use of, often combined with the powerful, which has been a mainstay in almost all dredge decks since the cards printing in Zendikar. The most common answers were, ,, ,, and, most of all, and, a cc1 spell capable of not only destroying enchantments, but also by untapping a permanent (namely ) to speed up the deck. So, Dredge needed a solution to the hate, which came in the form of adding actual mana, allowing for better answers to graveyard hate. The old versions of Dredge had few proactive responses (aside from discard spells), a feeble manabase, and few or zero backup strategies: if the opponent was able to put graveyard or bazaar hate into play, you were practically dead. Having played Dredge myself, I remember that it was quite disappointing and devastating to systematically win the first game and then lose game 2 and game 3 without even playing because of a or a played on opponent's side. ,, and quickly gained slots in most sideboards to give more conventional Vintage strategies the slightest chance against the raw power of Dredge. For this reason, all the tier decks had to quickly fix their strategies to face Dredge and sideboards quickly became full of graveyard/bazaar hate.
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