Phantasmagorian is also very useful for putting our dredgers back into our graveyard from our hand after they dredge, continuing our self-mill engine. Stifle and other cards that counter activated abilities do not prevent us from discarding almost our entire hand. While we can only return it to our hand once, making the second trigger fizzle, discarding three cards is the cost of the ability, which makes it impossible to respond to. As if this was not powerful enough, we can activate Phantasmagorian's graveyard-based ability twice by activating once, holding priority, and activating again. Being able to discard three cards on turn one is incredibly powerful in a deck that uses the graveyard as a resource. The best card to pitch on turn one, however, is Phantasmagorian. Obviously, cards with a higher dredge count are better, which makes Golgari Grave-Troll far better than Shambling Shell. This card is about as gross to play against as it looks. We have enough graveyard effects that even if we do not have a dredger in hand, it is better to keep the hand anyway and start putting other cards into the bin. In a similar vein, mulliganing means we cannot pitch a card on our first turn, creating the same effect. If we go first, we essentially give our opponent a free Time Walk. This means that we want to be on the draw no matter what deck we find ourselves up against. Instead, we take advantage of the maximum hand size rule. Because we have no mana, we cannot cast any of the usual suspects for putting cards in the graveyard like Faithless Looting or Careful Study. This brings me to one of the many quirks about this deck. In every opening hand, we need to have a card with dredge, and if we do not, hope to find one fast because we can never mulligan. We play fourteen creatures with dredge, and while they all have stats, the only number we care about is the dredge number itself. Dredgersīeing that this is a Dredge deck, we will first investigate the namesake mechanic that fuels our engine. You may be wondering, "How do you even get to that point in the game? You can't cast spells!" I will explain all of this, and the inherent intricacies of this deck, as I breakdown the individual card packages. We usually win with creature beatdown, but we also pack a game-ending combo to take down an unsuspecting opponent by surprise. Despite its cost, Manaless Dredge is very difficult to play correctly due to the sheer number of triggers and interactions to keep track of, and I recommend goldfishing the deck numerous times or playing on Magic: The Gathering Online before taking it to a tournament. We eschew the most basic resource in the game to take full advantage of our graveyard. As the name entails, we play zero mana sources in our 75. Manaless Dredge is one of the strangest decks in Legacy, and arguably in all of Magic: The Gathering. Without further ado, here is Manaless Dredge! Manaless Dredge falls othe lesser end of this range, sitting at $240-less than the price of a Volcanic Island-and with a TCGPlayer optimized cart it can be had for under $180. In a format where decks cost as much as $2,000, $200 to $500 is not terrible. Legacy is naturally more powerful-and more broken-than Modern, and thus we need to have the most powerful cards possible in our deck in order to compete, even if it means pushing the bounds of the budget. However, if we push our budget to make space for more expensive cards, we also get access to powerful cards. Why? Because decks in the lower price calibers usually cannot compete against decks such as Grixis Delver, Czech Pile, or the myriad of other top-tier strategies. When we discuss budget Legacy, we are not talking about USD$50 or $100-we need to be in the $200 to $300 range. Consequently, the format is very expensive to buy into. The decks in this format play some of the most powerful cards in the game, and many of them are on the Reserved List. Before I get started, I need to clarify a few things. Hello and welcome to this week's Treasure Cruisin'! This time, I decided to tread into Legacy and tech one of my favorite decks in the format: Manaless Dredge. This article was originally published on MTG Salvation and has been republished here by the author's request.
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