If you browse the decklists of Worlds 2005, or Pro Tour Honolulu in 2006, you will only find Dredge cards hanging out in sideboards – Darkblast, specifically, had a role in fighting some very specific strategies. This pretty much made dredge cards non-starters in any kind of normal deck. This is a fairly powerful ability, so dredge cards are usually balanced around that by being fairly weak the original 12 Dredge cards in Ravnica are all pretty below curve for the expected power level of a card. Each dredge card says how many, ranging from Dredge 1 through Dredge 6.Įssentially, you forgo a normal draw to recover a card from your graveyard, with the added bonus of dumping more cards into your graveyard. If you do, you mill some cards that is, you put them from the top of your library directly into your graveyard. What it does: Whenever you would draw a card, instead you may return a card with Dredge from the graveyard to your hand.

Dredgeĭredge is a mechanic from Ravnica block, released in late 2005 following Kamigawa block. We've reached probably the strangest part of this history, and the most perverse deck archetype of all time. Last time, I explored the history of three powerful cards from Kamigawa block.

Sideboarding with dredge legacy