At the point that the entire deck's raison d'être is to generate free creatures without casting them, it becomes apparent that Amalgam is a perfect fit.
Whereas Vengevine and Gravecrawler demand a specific set of deckbuilding constraints and board states for their recursion abilities, Amalgam simply asks that the Dredge pilot get something (anything) back from the graveyard. This seemingly innocuous card gives the deck another Bloodghast/ Narcomoeba analog for a critical mass of recurring threats. It fits into the general game plan better than Vengevine or Gravecrawler, two cards Moderners have attempted to build around in the past to middling success. The most important development that seems to have catapulted Dredge into significant-player status is the printing of Shadows over Innistrad's Prized Amalgam. Besides its MTGO presence, it's been putting up semi-regular finishes at paper tournaments too-here's a build that Hall of Famer Kenji Tsumura used to make Top 8 at the WMCQ in Tokyo.
We'll have to wait until Wednesday to see how the June metagame report breaks down (I'm still sifting through the data), but anecdotally at least, it appears Dredge is real and here to stay.
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People have been experimenting with various builds of Dredge ever since Golgari Grave-Troll was unbanned in early 2015, but until recently it barely cracked the Tier 3 watermark. That's something I may have to rectify in future, because Dredge is all over the place and I'm getting absolutely destroyed by it. I recently pulled the trigger and bought into a Modern deck on MTGO (Infect, for those interested) and made the portentous decision to scrimp on the $20 Grafdigger's Cages. If you've been paying much attention to the Modern metagame or spending a reasonable amount of time in the MTGO Leagues, you've almost certainly already run up against Modern's newest boogeyman, Dredge.
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