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« on: March 09, 2008, 09:26:44 am »

Having returned to magic after years of absence from it, I am somewhat of a noob to these new abilities. Needless to say, when I play against Dredge decks, my opponent could be cheating because I have no idea what is going on.

Could someone please explain to me dredging, how it works and all that? I am clueless.
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2008, 12:57:34 pm »

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Dredge: Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player's graveyard. "Dredge N" means "As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead put N cards from the top of your library into your graveyard and return this card from your graveyard to your hand." A player with fewer cards in his or her library than the number required by a dredge ability can't put any of them into his or her graveyard this way. See rule 502.47, "Dredge."
If they have a card in their graveyard with dredge, instead of drawing (as a replacement effect, so you can't respond to it), they can mill cards from their library equal to the dredge cost of the card, and then put that card into their hand.

The deck works by dredging to put every card from their library into their graveyard, put Narcomeobas and Ichorids into play, disrupt the opponent with Cabal Therapy, and flashback Dread Return to put Flamekin Zealot into play and win.  It works well with Bridge from Below.

(Looking up those cards with elucidate things).
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2008, 01:11:33 pm »

So dredge cards are always played from the graveyard. And every time they can draw, they can use dredge on a card in the graveyard. So if they had mana and were to use brainstorm, they can dredge 3 times. Wow wtf! I think I understand now.
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2008, 08:44:41 pm »

Dredge cards aren't played from the graveyard, they're just returned to their owner's hand instead of drawing a card, so you don't even need mana as such.
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2008, 09:20:42 pm »

it is very important to note that dredging, being a replacement, does NOT use the stack.   I've been burned badly because of that fact. 
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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2008, 02:03:26 am »

The implication of this is you can't wait until your opponent decides whether to draw or dredge and then Tormod's Crypt them.
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« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2008, 07:51:43 am »

Damn. Dredge is fierce. It also seems to be evolving to become immune to the hate against it. Dredge is like a super-virus.
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