Dredge is also a deck that mulligans frequently to find the pieces it needs to play the game, and losing its biggest dredger will make these mulligans more punishing. The hit to consistency going down from dredge 6 to dredge 4 will be felt, however, and you can expect the deck to decline in popularity. Stinkweed Imp showed up from time to time before the unbanning of Grave-Troll, and other dredgers like Golgari Thug will happily serve as scabs. Make no mistake-you can still play Dredge in Modern. Those other cards have the potential to contribute to less oppressive strategies. You could make a case for Prized Amalgam as well, though ultimately what it comes down to is that a Golgari Grave-Troll deck will rarely fall in line with the play experience Modern is intended to offer. How many looting effects will we ban in the name of Dredge? Frankly, one is too many. Dredge just kind of circumvents the rules of engagement, taxes sideboard space, and is surprisingly resilient to hate.Ī lot of players would have liked to see Cathartic Reunion get the hammer, which sort of makes sense considering how much power the card lent the deck, though I believe it's really bad form to put the medium card on the banlist. The management of the Modern banlist largely pushes the format towards attacking with creatures or needing to survive a fast onslaught if you want to go bigger. The dredge mechanic is kind of neat in very high-powered formats, and very obnoxious in formats trying to promote reasonable gameplay. I'm very happy that they made this move anyway. I was concerned that this wasn't going to happen, as unbanning and re-banning a card isn't a great image. Finally, I'll touch on the larger conclusions we can draw regarding Wizards' approach to managing the banlist, and what it means for Modern moving forward. I'll look at both bannings in terms of the logic that led to them, and the metagame impacts we can expect as a result. I think these changes will be net positive for the format. To be fair, I enjoyed Modern prior to this announcement, much unlike Miracles Legacy, though I'm very happy that action was taken. The pessimist in me expected that Modern would be left untouched.

I knew they were going to take actions in Standard with the new banlist update-especially with it being moved up to this week.

Edh dredge 2017