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You just come off as one of those poor, punk school kids who can't afford to buy a manabase and play Dredge because it's the only competitive deck you can get your hands on and then become enamored by all of the blow out wins with LED and Dread Returning Griselbrand instead of the players who play this deck because they actually want to and know the importance of winning small against hate instead of winning big uncontested. I mean you do know that you no longer have the element of surprise games 2+, your opponent SBs in hate game 2, he will be on the play game 2 and can choose to mulligan accordingly knowing what he's facing and having much higher impact cards vs our strategy? LED isn't the fucking answer to every deck in the format, it's a situationally awesome card that you have to be able to use judiciously and know when to SB out for alternatives. If you want to play with LED MD I get it, but don't fucking act like cards like Firestorm or Tireless Tribe or Thoughtseize don't have their place in Dredge and that LED is always the right choice regardless of the metagame, being on the draw and opponent's hate cards.
And if you're not aware of it, the policy at a lot of major events is to give your opponent your deck list in the top cut which gives us the informational advantage with Cabal Therapy and our SBing choices.
@Jaumauer
I have tested Gitaxian Probe, and the problem with Gitaxian Probe as well as Street Wraith is that they're just low impact cards that force you to SB out high impact cards. If you're facing enough hate, I think there's problem some merrit in SBing them so you can cut Breakthrough and then have a more incremental draw spell that can help fight thru' hate. I actually really like Street Wraith in the SB vs Deathrite Shaman because you can still go DDD and then trigger the Dredger in response to the Deathrite Shaman activation. Gitaxian Probe is kind of a weird card, because you'd ideally play it before you played anything else and therefore wont really get the ability to use it as a draw spell to trigger Dredge that often. So I don't know whether or not Gitaxian Probe is better than Street Wraith at that roll or whether or not we'd have SB space for both but they definitely have things going for them as SB cards that make us more resilient to hate while not being dead in the absence of hate. That's why I really like stuff like Firestorm and Tireless Tribe, they're still good and advance the decks game plan in the albeit rare event that you don't face any resistance. If you like cards that have that sort of soft power feel, I'd recommend looking into other stuff like Leyline of Sanctity, Chancellor of the Annex, Contagion, Dryad Arbor, Phantasmagorian and Serum Powder as well. Manaless Dredge has a lot of good card examples of the "win small" philosophy that LED Dredge players typically overlook in favour of more direct answers like Nature's Claim. I tend to avoid cards like that as much as possible myself, even Chain of Vapour is kind of "meh" at being useful when the opponent doesn't draw hate.
Seriously?
