Originally Posted by
Parcher
I need some help with a decision I am having difficulty resolving.
Assume I am running a standard Quad list, removing the fourth Thug for a land, and the fourth Breakthrough for a DR.
I am certain now that I want to add a 12th Dredger in. However, I can't reconcile how.
The only card I am comfortable removing considering MD and SB requirements, is the fourth PImp. PImp is indivudually a stronger card than any of it's considered replacements, but isn't as paramount to the actual functions of the deck, since too often I am without a dredger, rendering PImp fairly useless in that case.
Thug replaces PImp as what I consider a needed Black creature to feed Ichorid. But not as a discard outlet.
Darkblast dredges almost as well as Thug, has a bit more utility, and almost acts as a discard outlet if only considering gettting a dredger into the yard. But it won't get you an Ichorid into play.
My issue is; if PImp is the only option for removal, and Thug or Darkblast are the only two options as a replacement, which is more important? Having a Dredge 4 that you can often hardcast for value, and facilitates Ichorid, or a mediocre removal spell that can Dredge 3, often save Ichorids or Bridges, and most often counts as an instant-speed discard outlet?
