So far I have a real rough sketch of what I might want to do for my next EDH deck. Unfortunately I cant find any generals that are overly useful for a graveyard dredge deck. I am thinking that Sapling of Colfenor is the best general I have to pick from. He doesnt have a ton of synergy with the deck but he is an indestructable relatively cheap general with some card drawing mechanics to him so I guess its alright. Well here is what I have put together so far. Please let me know anything I am forgetting for graveyard assistance as I cant really think of everything.
So that is what I came up with over around 2 hours of plotting it out. I might need to concentrate a bit more on the mass board wiping as the deck is built to come back from that. Please by all means give me some suggestions. I still plan on getting some card draw in there but I know most of what I need there.
I could go with some rez like zombify but as of yet I don't have much for creatures that don't have dredge or self rez themselves.
i think playing blue is a must for a dredge deck. it allows you to get a ton of cards that draw a(or more than one) card then discard cards. also classic dredge stuff like breakthrough, careful study, frantic search, the 10 different looter effects, glimpse the unthinkable....ect
other than that, as a fattie for a dredge deck, i think that lord of extinction is awsome. i run a 5c dredge deck, and normally my stategy is to dredge a bunch, then dread return Chainer dementia master, then proceed to bring back lord of extinction, eternal witness>rancor or berserk. lord of extinction is normally a 50+/50+
in tutors vampiric tutor really shines because it lets you dredge something striaght to the grave.
another card to consider is hermit druid. granted with 30+ bascis its not very good but with 10-15 its awsome
also for another semi useful dredge general, xira arien taps to draw a card so a possibility?
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I played a dredge edh deck and instead of blue I played RGB. This allows you to play either Xira Arien (extra dredge) or Adun Oakenshield (awesome to get back what you dredged). I played Xira Ariend and this was the most fun do-nothing-then-crush-the-whole-table deck I have played in EDH. Red allows for Anger and Gamble which are both insane in these decks. And my personal favorite, Torrent of Souls. The most important thing about this deck when I played it was that I wasn't playing blue in another EDH deck. I personally don't like playing blue because there are always at least 80 cards I want to put in every blue deck that I just don't have room for.
You could also play Teneb, the Harvester. This would allow you to play the necessary GB cards while also allowing for you to have Academy Rector --> Debtor's Knell (or Diabolic Servitude. You also get Karmic Guide, Reveillark and Saffi Eriksdaughter. Crime // Punishment is also very good. This also enables you to play cheaper wrath effects and I honestly think that Plague Wind and Reiver Demon are way to expense for 1v1 EDH decks. Another thing that I highly recommend for any green deck in EDH is to play quite a few more accelerants. In a deck like this, if you have many accelerants and access to a ton of mana you can very quickly do incredibly ridiculous things.
I would add more fat to your deck. If you do this you can play a ton of reanimation cards that are all pretty awesome. I would add: Terastodon - Extreme Utility Lord of Extinction (I can't tell you how many times I would dredge my whole deck, flashback dread return on this guy, then have anger and brawn in my graveyard. Then you smash someones face and flashback Seize the Day to smash another face.) Worm Harvest (This was a key card. You can easily get like 40+ tokens in one turn if you have started to go off with Life from the Loam.
I know this is almost blasphemous but if you make this deck the awesome dedicated dredge deck that it can be, I would cut rancor, jitte and SoFI because they are pretty bad once dredged.
DREDGE
1 Darkblast
1 Golgari Grave-Troll
1 Golgari Thug
1 Grave-Shell Scarab
1 Greater Mossdog
1 Life from the Loam
1 Moldervine Cloak
1 Necroplasm
1 Shambling Shell
1 Stinkweed Imp
FLASHBACK
1 Beast Attack
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Crush of Wurms
1 Deep Reconnaissance
1 Roar of the Wurm
SELF REZERS
1 Bloodghast
1 Vengevine
1 Nether Shadow
1 Nether Traitor
1 Masked Admirers
1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
1 Reach of Branches
1 Undead Gladiator
1 Gigapede
1 Spiritmonger
1 Genesis
1 Mortivore
1 Deity of Scars
ARTIFACTS
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Skullclamp
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Crucible of Worlds
ENCHANTS
1 Rancor
1 Grave Pact
Tutors
1 Buried Alive
1 Entomb
1 Corpse Connoisseur
1 Diabolic Tutor
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Demonic Tutor
GRAVE RETURN
1 Restock
1 Eternal Witness
1 Elven Cache
1 Recollect
1 Regrowth
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Death Cloud
1 Living Death
1 Damnation
1 Plague Wind
1 Decree of Pain
1 Reiver Demon
Land
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
1 Cabal Pit
1 Centaur Garden
1 Strip Mine
1 Crypt of Agadeem
So that is what I came up with over around 2 hours of plotting it out. I might need to concentrate a bit more on the mass board wiping as the deck is built to come back from that. Please by all means give me some suggestions. I still plan on getting some card draw in there but I know most of what I need there.
I could go with some rez like zombify but as of yet I don't have much for creatures that don't have dredge or self rez themselves.
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other than that, as a fattie for a dredge deck, i think that lord of extinction is awsome. i run a 5c dredge deck, and normally my stategy is to dredge a bunch, then dread return Chainer dementia master, then proceed to bring back lord of extinction, eternal witness>rancor or berserk. lord of extinction is normally a 50+/50+
in tutors vampiric tutor really shines because it lets you dredge something striaght to the grave.
another card to consider is hermit druid. granted with 30+ bascis its not very good but with 10-15 its awsome
also for another semi useful dredge general, xira arien taps to draw a card so a possibility?
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You could also play Teneb, the Harvester. This would allow you to play the necessary GB cards while also allowing for you to have Academy Rector --> Debtor's Knell (or Diabolic Servitude. You also get Karmic Guide, Reveillark and Saffi Eriksdaughter. Crime // Punishment is also very good. This also enables you to play cheaper wrath effects and I honestly think that Plague Wind and Reiver Demon are way to expense for 1v1 EDH decks. Another thing that I highly recommend for any green deck in EDH is to play quite a few more accelerants. In a deck like this, if you have many accelerants and access to a ton of mana you can very quickly do incredibly ridiculous things.
I would add more fat to your deck. If you do this you can play a ton of reanimation cards that are all pretty awesome. I would add:
Terastodon - Extreme Utility
Lord of Extinction (I can't tell you how many times I would dredge my whole deck, flashback dread return on this guy, then have anger and brawn in my graveyard. Then you smash someones face and flashback Seize the Day to smash another face.)
Worm Harvest (This was a key card. You can easily get like 40+ tokens in one turn if you have started to go off with Life from the Loam.
I know this is almost blasphemous but if you make this deck the awesome dedicated dredge deck that it can be, I would cut rancor, jitte and SoFI because they are pretty bad once dredged.
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