The cards we are going to discard will be a card with the Dredge keyword or Phantasmagorian this card is the first piece that we will use to start filling our graveyard with cards on our deck that can be played from the graveyard or have some triggered effect when they or other cards are put in the graveyard. This is because our first turn will be a simple draw and the discard to hand size. So… how do you play spells? With Manaless Dredge is important to be always on the draw when starting a game. There are Rogue versions (often without Reserved List cards) of Dredge focusing on Mono-Red and Mono-Blue or, sometimes Blue-Red.The first question people ask me is “Is it really manaless?” Yes! There are zero mana sources in the deck no lands, no mana producing artifacts and neither weird free rituals like Simian Spirit Guide. It is also one of the few decks in which the order of cards in the Graveyard matters. Watching a Dredge deck in a paper game is interesting since they often open up their Graveyard in a way most decks don't. In the Mana-Less strategy, choosing to go second is usually important since the deck wants to discard the first card to hand size and start the Dredge from there.Ĭabal Therapy is a nice option in a Dredge deck since it has a synergy with Bridge from Below. The normal Dredge deck is still considered better equipped to handle most of the opponent's answers, but Mana-Less Dredge doesn't fall behind since it can now deal with those answers too. But the printing of Force of Vigor changed this and actually put Mana-Less Dredge on the map of competitive Legacy strategies. Mana-Less Dredge was seen as somewhat of a ' meme deck' or a deck of lesser power since it would concede the game most the time the opponent landed a Graveyard-hate permanent on the board - with players even saying things like the strategy of the deck for Graveyard-hate was to concede. Although the strategy slightly varies from each one, many of the cards are present in both lists. It is considered an Aggro- Combo strategy.īoth types of Dredge decks employ the same self-mill strategy. It is a powerful strategy that is present in Legacy, Modern and Vintage.

It draws its name from the Mechanic Dredge and there are two major subtypes of Legacy Dredge decks: Mana-Less and Dredge.

Modern manaless dredge