Agonas Dredge built for a quicker, more flexible game plan.
The reintegration of Darkblast allows consistent and recursive interaction against creature based decks, as well as the ability to take out your own Golgari Thug in response to your grave getting blown up; nice tech to save a dredger or Insolent Neonate in order to get the ball rolling again.
A more subtle benefit to dropping Loam is buried in the numbers. Traditional lists run four Stinkweed Imp, four Life from the Loam, and two Golgari Thug, each dredging five, three, and four, respectively. With Loam out of the picture, we now have four cards dredging five, four dredging four, and only two dredging three, along with the added benefit of Dakmor Salvage dredging two late to mid game for Bloodghast triggers. This allows for slightly faster / deeper digs and much less demanding hard-casts to keep the digs up.
One copy of Conflagrate is nice to have, as it doesn't need Loam to clear a board or close a game. We're looking at 20-30 power on the board by t3 pretty consistently, and recursive interaction against chump blockers.
Aside from the new-used tech between Ox of Agonas, Darkblast, and Dakmor Salvage, the list is pretty well stock. Got high hopes for this build; naturally any advice is welcome! Still putting in reps to better pilot, but loving the flexibility and speed it's got to offer.
