MTG Salvation

For all those of you who are not familiar with those tiny Creatures:


Everybody notice that these are fine discard outlets and work perfectly fine with a lot of Dredge Card, as they enable Dredge every turn.

There has been a dedicated thread for it, Craterhoof Dredge.
The deck was initiated by Pascal Maynard.

It's aim was to dredge into Unburial Rites + Craterhoof Behemoth plus a bunch of Narcomoeba and Bloodghast.

The deck hasn't come to a lot of success sadly.

Is it viable to brew with those one?
It's so much value it's really insane noone uses it.

What would be the most promising thing to brew with?

I'm thinking something along the lines of abusing the graveyard is these card's best bet. Maybe some Dredge or reanimator shenanigans?

For sure.

I think that the deck is able to take 2 different directions:

1. All-in Combo
Dredge like the Devil and recurr something from the Grave. The usual Suspects could be:

• Terrastodon
  
• Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  
• Iona, Shield of Emeria
  
• Craterhoof Behemoth
  
• The Gitrog Monster
  

The important thing here is that the resurrection must win the game immediately.

2. The Value train
Pack the Deck with Cards that answers every threat.

• Raven's crime
  
• Darkblast
  
• Life from the Loam
  
• Ghost Quarter
  
• Lingering Souls
  

and aim to outgrind / -value your opponent.

I'm supposing that the first approach is the more promising archetype, but i got no igniting idea to get that rolling.

Quote from Ayiluss »

Yeah, you can go with classic dredge deck (Dredgevine) or some kind of combo with Unburial Rites. There are plenty of options here.

So what's the most promising thing to brew with?

Yeah,

i'm mind-gambling with some sort of BUG list with

• Prized Amalgam
  
• Stitchwing Skaab
  
• Bloodghast
  
• Narcomoeba
  
• Golgari Grave-Troll
  
• Stinkweed Imp
  
• Life from the Loam
  
• Squee, Goblin Nabob
  
• Thought Scour

A promising plan would be to dump everything to the yard, get some Lands and Llanowar Elves to establish an overwhelming Boardstate.
Question is, does Rites + X enough impact to be worth the inclusion in the deck?

To kick this off, here's my first assumption:


Everyone is able to calculate that this is a bit much.

There are some non-synergies here:
Narcomoeba can't ever trigger Prized Amalgam and is a dead draw.

I could go for more zombie'ish style with Gurmag Angler, Gravecrawler and maybe Lotleth Troll but this will shift the deck in another direction - constantly recurring dudes, less space for comboing with Rites + Behemoth.

Another problem is the all-in-combo approach:
there is literally no space for interaction. Burn, Infect, Robots and other Aggro strategies seem like an auto-loss.
Unburial Rites is easily handled by Remand Turn 4.
Pyroclasm creeps my board to unplayability.
Not to mention Relic, RiP and Scavenging Ooze.

The BIG plus here is Stitchwing Skaab, Bloodghast and Prized Amalgam.
This combination is able to put 8 power to the Board in just 1 Turn. Question here:

Are they at there strongest in a Dredge deck? Or do they better fit to a Zombie-only shell?

More questions than answers i guess

Maddness cards could be fun as well. Not sure what ones are good enough though

So after some playtesting i recognized that Seeker and Mentor doesn't fit into a BUG shell.

I'll further investigate into a BUG Life from the Loam, because Loam synergizes well with stitchwing Skaab, Raven's Crime and Bloodghast.

My preferred Discard Outlets are

• Stitchwing Skaab
  
• Lotleth Troll
  
• Raven's Crime
  

whereas Crime doubles as my 3rd discard option and fighting through Combo and Control.
I'm packing too 2 Ghost Quarter and gambling too with Mutavault because it's a Zombie and fits nicely into the Loam / Dredge package. I keep my eyes on Drownyard Temple because it easiliy enables Bloodghast + Prized Amalgam triggers.

Dakmor Salvage maybe also a decent fit here. Dredges + recurrs [card]Bloodghast.

This is my most recent list:



I expect Skaab to be the most misunderstood card of this new set:
It's not about pumping out the most Dudes you can get, it's more to outgrind / recurr the devil out of your deck and present a slow, but omnipresent clock only few spells can get rid of.