Legacy Dredge deck

UPDATED MARCH/2022
Dredge is a self-mill-based deck. It draws its name from the Mechanic Dredge and there are two major subtypes of Legacy Dredge decks: Mana-Less and Dredge. It is a powerful strategy that is present in Legacy, Modern and Vintage. It is considered an Aggro-Combo strategy.
==Overview==
Both types of Dredge decks employ the same self-mill strategy. Although the strategy slightly varies from each one, many of the cards are present in both lists.
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. But the printing of <c>Force of Vigor</c> changed this and actually put Mana-Less Dredge on the map of competitive Legacy strategies.
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.
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.
<c>Cabal Therapy</c> is a nice option in a Dredge deck since it has a synergy with <c>Bridge from Below</c>.
Watching a Dredge deck in a paper game is interesting since they often open up their Graveyard in a way most decks don't. It is also one of the few decks in which the order of cards in the Graveyard matters.
There are Rogue versions (often without Reserved List cards) of Dredge focusing on Mono-Red and Mono-Blue or, sometimes Blue-Red. Also the Mana-Less version doesn't use cards from the Reserved List
==Contemporary Decklists==
<deck title="2nd Place: Dredge - Chad Martire - Land Run Sooner - 04/03/2022">
Lands
4 Cephalid Coliseum
4 City of Brass
2 Gemstone Mine
3 Mana Confluence
Creatures
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Golgari Thug
1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
3 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
1 Ox of Agonas
2 Putrid Imp
4 Stinkweed Imp
Instants and sorceries
3 Breakthrough
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Careful Study
1 Dread Return
4 Faithless Looting
Other spells
4 Bridge from Below
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
Sideboard
1 Ashen Rider
1 Firestorm
1 Ichorid
3 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Lotus Petal
3 Nature's Claim
1 Wispmare
</deck>
<deck title= "2nd Place: Manaless Dredge - Marnix Van Haegendoren - Demospel (Leuven, Belgium) - 12/11/21">
Creatures
4 Balustrade Spy
4 Chancellor of the Annex
1 Flayer of the Hatebound
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Golgari Thug
2 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
4 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
4 Nether Shadow
4 Phantasmagorian
2 Prized Amalgam
2 Shambling Shell
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Street Wraith
1 Thassa's Oracle
Instants and sorceries
4 Dread Return
4 Cabal Therapy
Other spells
4 Bridge from Below
Sideboard
1 Angel of Despair
4 Force of Vigor
4 Force of Will
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Sickening Shoal
</deck>
==See also==
* Dredge
* Combo
* Aggro
* Legacy
* Modern
* Vintage
* Reserved List
* Revitalization of Legacy
Category:Tournament decks
Category:Legacy format
Category:Deck archetypes