Starting in 2011, I got more serious about Magic and have been playing continuously since then. From then until 2011 I played on again / off again very casually.

Magic has been a part of my life to varying degrees since around 2001. When did you get into magic and when did you get into Legacy? Do you play paper magic too? If so what’s your favourite deck to pilot? Meritt has done just that, winding back to clock and taking down the Legacy Open with a straight forward yet high powered Punishing Zoo 75.Ī huge thank you to Meritt for his time and answering some of the questions I had when I found out the Zoo was Loose. If you told me a week prior that the winning list was running 4 Lightning Bolt, 4 Tarmogoyf and…4 Wild Nacatl, I don’t know if I would have taken you seriously.

There are Rogue versions (often without Reserved List cards) of Dredge focusing on Mono-Red and Mono-Blue or, sometimes Blue-Red.The Leaving a Legacy Open hosted 97 players in a 7 round cut-to-top-8 epic. 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.

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