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The feels-good win.

Unmask put in a lot of work for me back when Hollywood's Blue list was the build of choice, often exceeding the upside of running Force of Will.

*Responds to Hollywood himself about Hollywood.*

Hell yeah. Might try your list out this week.

All correct there! I counted CC in creatures; I had Cabal in the SB because I was tinkering with the ratio of Cabal and Creeping Chill.

Thanks for thorough SB walkthrough.

I am thinking of trying the list below for game 1, and then transitioning to the FoW or FoV list game 2. Creeping Chill has got me there a few times and Prized is fuel for both Hogaak and FoW in game...

The combo + Hogaak seems fine to me. Maybe it's my play style, but the Dryads often feel like dead cards. There are always enough black creatures to tap.

I've been taking Chancellor and Creeping Chill over FOW lately. It's worked out well. Preemptively disrupting the opponent's first play often leaves enough room for us to get ahead.

Fire.

Agreed! Probe has always been my default choice.

Brutal.

Welcome to the cult!

I second this. It's great to see novel builds of this archetype.

Money plays.

This looks fun. I remember a discussion on the Source--likely in this or one of the other Dredge threads--about River Kelpie, but I failed to save the list. Cheers.

Rough...

I ran Manaless recently and was trounced. Despite being trounced, it was exhilarating.

How is everyone else fairing?

I agree on all accounts. I no longer run SA, Progenitus, or an Eldrazi. SBing the entire blue package is limiting.

Something like this list (credit: Hollywood) is what I have had success with in the past:

4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Phantasmagorian
4 Golgari Thug
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Shambling Shell
4 Street...

I really like the idea of a transformational sideboard, but I have only done it by going from an all-in build to Blue Manaless. Win game 1, bring in the Blue package to deal with the hate in game 2.

This mantra works well!

I am joining a new playgroup this week and looking forward to running Manaless Dredge again. I might follow up with a general report, although I will probably hold off until I get back to playing a...