Is the Secret to Modern NOT Playing Magic? Dredge! | $100 Budget Magic 

I still find it so funny that dredging a bigger number was believed to be the DOWNSIDE of the card during balance testing, yet it's now the only text on the card that even matters.

Reminder : Just because it's not a typically preferred style of Magic, Dredge is still Magic. Unpopular Opinion : Dredge is the epitome of what Magic as a system is capable of. It's a strategy that is strong, attacks at a unique angle, and also has metagame solutions that flatten it.

Dredge vs Affinity made me happy. I felt like it was 2015.

For future reference: Leyline of sanctity would have been a ok card to bring in against Relic/Tormod's crypt because both of the cards have : "Target player exiles a card/ their graveyard" on them, meaning you would fizzle that mode (in the case of karns getting tormod's crypt they wouldn't be able to hit you with it) and it giving you hexproof means they have to deal with it before your graveyard (outside of cracking relic that is). I know it is commonly used as anti discard, but it works against certain graveyard hate effects as well

It says uploaded Sep 25, 2023 but playing Affinity, Tron, Mill clearly shows that this is actually from 2013

Conflagrate is important to have in the deck basically always, because it changes your 12 points of non-attacking damage with Creeping Chill, into 18 points (because it's not all that hard to get 6 cards in hand dredging), which turns janky Narcomoeba beats into the crucial last points of damage to win. In any game where attacking isn't reliable, it's vital to have access to Conflagrate.

SETH! You should do a chaotic transformation deck because we can now create token creatures, artifacts, and enchantments with instants and sorceries. Please?

I love dredge. The amount is times I've managed to sneak a win with a hard cast stinkweed imp is amazing😂

Dredge and Living End are both decks that constantly cycle in and out of being Modern’s boogie men, and as a person who loves both decks I find it hilarious

Dredge recently got me into playing modern with a similar budget list so this is awesome to see! Also much love for the Amigo shirt!

id love a series on classic modern decks that you normally wouldnt get a chance to see-- like, we havent seen infect in a while and it could be cool to see you try that out in the new modern format! edit: i forgot about Fury actually

The reverse flawless victory deserves much more attention IMO

Hearing bear pant the entire time is so cute and great video! Modern is by far the most diverse and fun format I can’t believe dredge still performs this well with mh and mh2 running the show

Seth being an Amigo the Devil fan is so on brand. Can’t wait to see Amigo in a few weeks

Remember when Shriekhorn was a 4-of staple in dredge? Good times.

I love this deck!!! ❤

Wow. Dredge is on _Bugdet Magic_ ... How did we get to this timeline?

Don't forget that you can cast Darkblast on your upkeep, dredge it on your Draw step, and then cast it again later in the turn to kill an X/2. I've played both Modern Tron and Legacy Dredge, and historically at least, I found Tormod's Crypt to be a lot like Fog - it'll stop you for now but only for now, compared to Leyline of the Void which is much more urgent to deal with. Dealing with Crypt and Relic of Progenitus both is a lot though :) In the last match we saw basically a monored burn deck with Sacred Foundry game 1. With nothing else to go on, I would be tempted to sideboard in Duress and Wear//Tear: the number one sideboard answer I can think of out of white would be Rest in Peace, and they still have artifact hate (Tormod's Crypt et al). Not sold on Ancient Grudge here - Wear//Tear gives you the flexibility you need to take out any graveyard removal, and if you lose game 2 you can bring in Ancient Grudge if they seem to be relying on artifact hate.

that mill player was definitely having an Anakin moment yelling out "what have i done?"

He had so many hands that could have just drawn and discarded the dredger turn 1 instead of mull. Could have gone the no land dredge route.

Seth forgot that reverse flawless victory with mono red prowess (with fireblast) in legacy x)

Nice to see dregde again. Now that you are doing it, could we see a redo/update to the old manaless dregde (against the odds) deck? Im not sure, but i think that deck did get some new playthings.

Yay finally a video for a format I actually care about

I realize I've been playing this deck minus the dredge for months on the arena, and it's by favorite deck of all time. Maybe I'll get into modern lol

Love it

1:01:30 imagine Seth's reaction if opponent played Mana Tithe!

Have you tried dredge with Harth Elemental?

With the amigo the devil shirt!!!!!!

This is exactly how i feel about modern atm. Thats why i built 12 bogles that's just all in on a 1 drop with auras that cant be targeted (theres a new one drop with ward 2 thats close enough to be a Bogle) and Lightpaws answer my two drop or die. Its just built around getting a broken 2 drop down and throwing a canopy cover on it and killing them. Even built a legacy version (surprisingly does better but theres a key tech called Lashknife that lets mr protect light paws for free the turn it comes down.)

I've been playing a Dredgeless Dredge very similar to this in Historic. It either explodes or fizzled. There's no in-between.

Hmm once a long time ago I had started work on an Ichorid Dredge deck, and a lot of the money cards here I already have…

wooo! Modern time :D

I picked up the deck on moto and gave it a run and most people just scooped in game 1 after seeing s dredge card because they dont main deck graveyard hate lmao

Fun video even though I find dredge a tad annoying. I'm curious, is there a reason you wouldn't bring in duress game 2 against vs affinity? You mentioned wanting to stop graveyard hate would that not be a good way to do it?

I loved dredge, i realize it was hated, but its just such a different way to play magic. And I am a monster.

19:15 Dredge Darkblast kill Ballista maybe?

31:05 the classic put a land on top, dredge it away

"lets cut the last merchant" *cuts a prized amalgun

12:16 - Can't you just target the same stinkweed for both draw replacement effects? It was legal to do that many years ago when I used to play a deck with Stinkweed in it

No chests?😢

What is he playing on?

Good showcase of matches, some of the matchups were really funny, why did you choose to do some 2-p queues along with the league in the video? I was wondering if there were some non-games, but then again you are playing dredge so all of them are non-games :P

Hot take: Dredge is more actual Magic than BR-Scam

Probably won't take but shrine clones?

55:00 Bear panting

seth as a long time dredge player you want to really avoid disrupting your combo when sideboarding....

Is MTGO always showing animations at ~2 FPS or has Seth's computer just fallen behind?

1st play of the game and already a mistake... YOU ALWAYS OTHERWORLDLY GAZE ON YOUR TURN because of Creeping Chill + Silversmote Ghoul

Could we see a normal list played

Dredge is definitely still playing Magic haha

I love dredge. Like is such a dumb deck full of horrible jank like creeping chill, narcomebas and the like, and yet its one of the strongest deck ever if your opponent doesnt has graveyard hate xD

*screams in horror*

As Richard Garfield intended.

*happy bear noises*

Why doesn't dredge play Wonder?

Needs moar Gaak.

Modern decks don't really interact with the graveyard game one. Meanwhile, standard decks have insane amounts of graveyard hate main deck.

Leyline of sanctity stops relic

Your anti-graveyard hate seems focused around artifact destruction, but that doesn't really work on one-time use hate like Tormod's Crypt, Relic, and Soul-Guide Lantern. Makes me think Trickbind or Tale's End could be useful here. Lets you stop those as well as ETBs like Bojuka Bog or Endurance, and they have additional uses like stifling a cascade trigger or countering an Ugin activation (or Ugin himself for Tale's End).

I wouldnt board out any dredgers since you dont have gravetroll in modern. Game 3 against tron is proof of this. Every time you went to sideboard you over dilute the deck and you suffer for it. A classic dredge strat is actually to sometimes just not even sideboard for game 2 and wait and find out exactly what your opponent brings. I would trim on the support carts before I board out a dredger. Unlessmyou encounter a ga!e where darkblastmis garaunteed to never have a legal target (hence why I ould rather playnlife from the loam as a 3 of with 1 darkblast)

I love not playing magic!!!

I enjoyed dredge as it was intended back in original ravnica block, with savra and shambling shells, dredging darkblast & modervine for their actual effects. But what it's become in the woder game is just an abomination. At this point any card with a dredge above 2 just needs to be banned.

Unban Hogaak!

Million dollar dredge; you pay the right bribes to unban GGT the day before decklists are due

Wait Dredge is good That’s never been a thing They never banned unbanned and banned a card because of Dredge (This is joke)

How did you manage to run into all these unpopular decks? affinity, burn, mill... even tron and living end aren't very popular in leagues.

Please please please play eldrazi Tron it’s really fun and good

It’s actually the opposite - the secret to magic is not playing modern. Wizards has made it a shit show at every turn since it’s inception from old extended.

Just play bazaar Seth, this is painful to watch

unban grave troll wotc cowards

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

It is hard to watch this format

$100 is a budget?

Stop scooping at 20 health.