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Eternal Conflict – Fighting Dredge in Classic
Posted on January 4, 2010 by spg
I just found this article. Very clever! It’s easy to think of Dredge as “oh, I’ll just sideboard in Leyline of the Void and Tormods Crypt and be done with it”, but no. I’ve heard the archetypes described as aggro/control/combo/dredge just because fighting dredge’s array of triggered abilities is so different than anything else in Magic.
In particular, I needed to be reminded that Bridge from Below has a self-destruct clause. I never thought that Mogg Fanatic could do that to Dredge.
I think that more people forget about the Bridge From Below self-destruct clause than you’d think. I watched a game in the tournament practice room recently where someone went down hard to dredge when they could have suicided their Grim Lavamancer to clear out the Bridges. Need to keep your eyes open!
Dredge was always somewhat a mystery for me. I only saw cards moving into and then out of the graveyard but never really took the time to understand how they perform nor how to fight them. This article makes everything much clearer.
Great job, Steve!