This is a fairly powerful ability, so dredge cards are usually balanced around that by being fairly weak the original 12 Dredge cards in Ravnica are all pretty below curve for the expected power level of a card. Each dredge card says how many, ranging from Dredge 1 through Dredge 6.Įssentially, you forgo a normal draw to recover a card from your graveyard, with the added bonus of dumping more cards into your graveyard.

If you do, you mill some cards that is, you put them from the top of your library directly into your graveyard. What it does: Whenever you would draw a card, instead you may return a card with Dredge from the graveyard to your hand. Dredgeĭredge is a mechanic from Ravnica block, released in late 2005 following Kamigawa block. We've reached probably the strangest part of this history, and the most perverse deck archetype of all time. I also want to try out ] as an alternative to ], as we can sac it to draw from the grave.Last time, I explored the history of three powerful cards from Kamigawa block. Here's an example list: Otherworldly Dredge Other alternatives are ] and ] which draw cards, but their 2 cmc is rather off-putting. It's a T1 play and the most important thing is it has Flashback, so we can always do something with it if we mill it by dredging. They're similar to ] as it mills 6 cards for a one card investment. What we need is more consistency.Īfter looking up alternatives I stumbled over ] and ]. My problem with it is it's dead when you get a rough start. Don't get me wrong I think it's good when you get a good opener and can fire it off T2/3. I don't really think so as exiling 8 cards is a steep cost to pay. You might argue that ] makes up for that. What I always liked about looting was that you could use it from the grave if your hand is dead, whereas neither merchant or inquiry do anything in the grave. After I took a longer break from Modern itt came to my attention that people are playing ] and ] as replacements for ] since it got the hammer.

Mtg all dredge cards