"But why would I want to put my cards in the graveyard?", you may be asking yourself. Initially, the ability may have been thought of to give the player more recursion, returning specific cards to their hand instead of taking the risk of drawing a land in the late game, for example, but it gained more prominence as a way of putting cards in your graveyard aggressively, since, combined with draw spells and discards, the deck can use the ability to mill several cards during the turn. For that, the dredged card needs to be in the graveyard, and you need to pay the Dredge cost, which is to mill a specific number of cards from your own deck, thus returning the specific card to the hand. Our team actually played about 1000 matches on Magic Online with the deck over the two months, which I expect would be one of the higher figures from the season.Dredge is an ability that allows you to return a certain card from the Graveyard to your hand, in place of any draws you would make during the turn (which may include your initial draw). Since most of the team were already keen on Rakdos from before, and our regular Zoom meetings had us unified on what we liked and what we wanted to try with the deck, I felt very confident about swapping to it. That’s one of the great benefits to being on a team – you can all be focusing on different decks, so that as the deadline looms closer, you can then converge onto the best option without having to start from the beginning. Once all the aggro options were exhausted, I just decided to play Rakdos because the rest of the team had worked on the deck so much. It then felt like I could not play Humans anymore due to its poor Phoenix matchup, so I gave up on the deck. However, this all changed after the Magic Online Championship, where Nathan Steuer and Marcio Carvalho dominated the tournament with Blue-Red Phoenix.Īfter that, Phoenix became more and more popular, to the point that it had about the same metagame share as Rakdos Midrange and Mono Green Devotion.
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