In terms of sideboarding, the more common cards that they have for the Dredge matchup are graffdiggers cage, relic of progenitus, tormod’s crypt, pithing needle (naming Bazaar of Baghdad), Leyline of the Void and from time to time, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. Wasteland and Strip Mine kill your Bazaar, while Steel Hellkite and Wurmcoil Engine can race you by killing your zombie tokens and via lifelink respectively. Workshops - Workshop does have a few maindeck cards that are good against Dredge. I’ll go through the most common sideboard hate cards and maindeck cards in particular archetypes that match up well against Dredge. Sometimes you can use game two as a feeler for what sort of hate you are up against.

This is where the advantage of being favored in most game ones is helpful. Knowing what all the possibilities are and being able to deduce what decks are more likely to play certain kinds of hate is a good tool to have.įor example if you are facing an Oath of Druids deck they are likely to not have Graffdigger’s Cage as their hate card of choice because it hurts them as well. Very few of them care about color, a lot of them are artifacts and some of them are free. Many of the hate cards that are used to combat dredge can be played in almost any deck. Sideboarding Strategies and Matchup Analysisĭredge doesn’t really have matchups against decks, but rather against individual sideboard cards. Today I'm going to delve a little deeper and talk about strategy with the deck.

If you haven't gotten a chance to read that article, take a moment to do so now.

In my last article I wrote about the essential cards that make up it's maindeck and sideboard.

Modern dredge primer