With these cards the original Standard Dredge deck came to be. While powerful, this mechanic did little more than supplement decks than run them.Įnter Zendikar and we have access to Hedron Crab and Crypt of Agadeem.

The Alara Block brought with it the Unearth mechanic, allowing for dead dudes to take one more shot at your opponent. To make it even simpler, if you can look at your deck and say, 'Gee, a Ravenous Trap, Tormod's Crypt or Leyline of the Void would really ruin my day.', you're probably looking at a Dredge deck. Pretty much any kind of deck that revolves around graveyard recursion and self-milling can be called Dredge. Whether or not it will survive in Extended in some way shape or form is yet to be seen.ĭredge, as it stands, is much less a keyword and much more an archetype. Making use of Hedron Crab, Drowned Rusalka and Glimpse the Unthinkable to help put cards in the graveyard, it seemed to have lost little to no gas in the transition.ĭredge is now a very successful Legacy deck, keeping all of its original tools and gaining some new ones. Using cards like Ichorid, Cephalid Coliseum and Cephalid Sage from the Odyssey Block, as well as Narcomoeba, Bridge from Below and Dread Return from Time Spiral, the deck could easily and efficiently power out an army of 3/3 hasty zombies via Flame-Kin Zealot.Īfter Extended rotated, Dredge continued on.

In Extended, however, the deck really took off as being both viable, and brutal. The keyword immediately spurred a deck, that saw limited success in Standard. Dredge was a keyword that came with the Ravnica Block.

Mtg dredge standard