[Deck] Dredge

[Cipher]

First of all I don't like Flame-Kin Zealot as it demands bridges in your gy to do something at all. And even if you get it to do something it will just win one turn faster. Most of the time you will win anyway one turn later because after you "comboed off" you can strip your opponent of his most valuable spells and assemble a huge army of the undead. FKZ is useless against prison effects like Elefant Grass.

If you want to play the Dread Return package I would use Flayer of the Hatebound in addition to Griselbrand. Flayer can win without bridges, goes through prisons and turns your Ichorids into Lightning Bolts. My biggest concern with Flayer is the "need" for a third Dread Return.

You should not cut Cephalid Coliseums and Careful Study. Study is the best card to cast out of coliseum. It also helps in postboard games finding your antihate pieces. I would rather cut a breakthrough before cutting studies.

Thanks for the response.

I stated in my post that FKZ is in the sideboard for combo decks. He's there is to win 1 turn faster, specifically when they play Show and Tell and pass the turn, or something along those lines. I figure that Griselbrand flipping your entire deck has to be stronger than anything else, except for the situation where cabal therapy on their entire hand is still going to lose the game. That's why I wanted the FKZ.

I'm thinking I've figured out why you guys are running the Flayer. It deals 4, then you hopefully sacrifice it again to deal 5, which is 9 total. But I don't think it's necessary to run 2x targets in the maindeck, and the Flayer's got to be worse after sideboarding than specific targets that are tailored to matchups.

About the Coliseums: I didn't have any Careful Study in my list. The 2 Coliseum's came out for them.