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I will alway suggest putting multiples of cards in (if you can afford to). Yes to the Slitherhead , look into a Corpsejack Menace . Grisly Salvage can help, if you are willing to let some cards go. Also Jarad's Orders to search for Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and throw a Slitherhead. I would also suggest Golgari Guildgate because it should help with mana.  These few cards are pretty inexpensive, so you should not have a problem. If money was not an issue I would suggest Abrupt Decay , Deathrite Shaman , and Lotleth Troll , so maybe keep an eye out for them, they work really well in my husband's deck hope this helps

Ok, so do you want to build a Dredge deck, or a gravepower deck with dredge in it? If dredge, then I could ramble on and on about how to build it for pages!! But a gravepower deck, I could give some advice also.


You need to run 4x Dreg Mangler . It is awesome early game with a late game bonus!! Dakmor Salvage is also good for dredging.

Nov 15, 2012 -- 1:47PM, CandyWife20 wrote:

I will alway suggest putting multiples of cards in (if you can afford to). Yes to the Slitherhead , look into a Corpsejack Menace . Grisly Salvage can help, if you are willing to let some cards go. Also Jarad's Orders to search for Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and throw a Slitherhead. I would also suggest Golgari Guildgate because it should help with mana.  These few cards are pretty inexpensive, so you should not have a problem. If money was not an issue I would suggest Abrupt Decay , Deathrite Shaman , and Lotleth Troll , so maybe keep an eye out for them, they work really well in my husband's deck hope this helps

Thanks for the reply! I'll get some Slitherheads since they're good and cheap one-drops, which I lack now, and probably some Grisly Salvages as they fuel my graveyard. I'm not sure about Corpsejack Menace, seeing as I can't play him from graveyard and I don't run that many Scavenge creatures: I'll see how those work and then get a corpsejack when I start running more scavengers. I'm not sure if I should run Golgari Rotfarm or Guildgate, seeing as both have their ups and downs but running both would be a bit overkill.

I'd love to run some Deathrite Shamans and Lotleth Trolls, but I'm afraid they're too expensive for me Maybe I'll get one or two Lotleth Trolls later on.

Nov 15, 2012 -- 4:59PM, morticianjohn wrote:

even though life from the loam and greater mossdog have dredge I don't think they fit the decklist very well.

I'm trying to get some replacement for mossdog, but I think I'll keep life from the loam. I almost always have some lands in my graveyard so it's pretty much a land search whenever I want one.

Nov 15, 2012 -- 6:02PM, Lightning-Balls wrote:

Ok, so do you want to build a Dredge deck, or a gravepower deck with dredge in it? If dredge, then I could ramble on and on about how to build it for pages!! But a gravepower deck, I could give some advice also.

You need to run 4x Dreg Mangler . It is awesome early game with a late game bonus!! Dakmor Salvage is also good for dredging.

I really like the idea of Dredge, and want to focus mostly on stuff that I can keep playing from my graveyard (essentially making Dredge a search engine). If you have advice on Dredge decks, I'd be very grateful if you'd post it here (or redirect me to a guide). I'm gonna try to get some Dreg Manglers and Dakmor Salvages.

Nov 15, 2012 -- 7:17PM, GeekyDad wrote:

Dredge and scavenge are two mechanics that work well together- you can dredge to get cards back, and doing so puts scavenge cards into your graveyard. Absolutely go with four Slitherheads. They're a free +1/+1 from your graveyard onto any creature. That said, you need to focus on cutting the less efficient cards and going with multiples of the better cards. And, as was mentioned above, a corpsejack menace will be very effective, especially if you dip into Return to Ravnica and use scavenge cards.

As I said to Candywife20 I'll definitely get some Slitherheads since they are good 1-drops, but I'm not sure about Corpsejack Menace seeing as I can't play him from graveyard, which is where I'll get most my cards from.

Thanks for the reply, I must say I'm impressed: You managed to spot my deck's key issues simply by looking at it, while it took me ten games with it to do so!

I traded some cards with my friends and have changed my deck a bit (see the original post). I got another Eternal witness , some Recollect , more Dredgers and a Grisly Salvage , of which I'll definitely get some more. I'm also trying out Deathgreeter as one-drops, but I'm not sure about those yet. I removed my Greater Mossdog , Golgari Thug and Reassembling Skeleton as they didn't do much good.

My friend also pointed me to this Premium Graveborn deck, which he saw lying in a comic book store. It has a lot of cards that would work great with this deck, I think. I was also thinking of simply getting another Izzet versus Golgari dualdeck (split up with a friend again), as that would mean a whole lot of great cards for only ten bucks

A friend also gave me a Grave-Shell Scarab , Dark Ritual and a playset of Raise Dead , but I'm not sure if those would fit in my deck well

I'll get some Terramorphic Expanses and/or Evolving Wilds, but I fear that Verdant Catacombs is too expensive for me right now (cheapest I can find is 10 bucks). I'll also look into the other cards oyu suggested

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