Manaless Dredge is similar to normal dredge decks but guess what? Yup.. no lands! This is a very basic manaless dredge list, what i like the most about this version is that you basically make some legacy staples like Wasteland,
Daze
and Force of Will dead cards. You can indeed win without casting a single spell, you just need to activate abilities to win the game.
Before going any further, I have been asked by a friend of mine ".. but how can you even play cards with no lands?", I know most people know how this deck works bot for you guys that don't here is a simple explanation of how to play it.Basically you always want to be on the draw, since you have no lands your first turn you do.. well nothing, you just pass and discard a card. Most of the time you will discard a "dredger" or a pantasmagorian. Now instead of drawing a card you just start dredging like you normally would.
what I really love about this version of the deck is that you can actually go off with the combo as early as turn 2, ad if for some reason you cant win with the combo, you can just play as an aggro deck and overrun your opponent with your zombie tokens.
For those of you that don't understand the combo i'll explain how it works:COMBO #1: I'd say most of the times this is how you win your games, just flood the board with 2/2 zombies then reanimate Flame-Kin Zealot and attack the face.
COMBO#2: This combo does not involve attacking at all so is great if for some reason you can't attack.You have to have some different cards in your graveyard to combo off, you can do this turn 2 but you'll have to dredge multiple times in that turn with Gitaxian Probe oir Street Wraith to get the stuff needed in the yard.
In order to go off you'll need:-3 creatures in play-1 Dread Return in the graveyard-1 Blaustrade spy in the graveyard
Maybe if you are lucky you already have 3 guys in play, if you don't you need some Bridge from Below and Cabal Therapy your own guys to make zombies.
Once the conditions above are satisfied just cast drear return for its flashback cost on your Balustrade Spy and flip your entire deck into your graveyard, don't worry about losing your next turn, because there will be no next turn.
Once you have your entire deck in your graveyard, well.. you can do the f*** you want! what you really want to do is use a random cabal therapy to make zombies or if you already have them dread return a Flayer of the Hatebound, and then dread return a Golgari Grave-Troll, since you have all your creatures in your graveyard the troll will be huge (usually around 30/30), it will proc the Flayer of the Hatebound ETB effect and deal 30 or so damage to your opponent.
The reason i decided to run 2x of Flayer of the Hatebound is because if for some reason your opponent gets rid of all your Grave-Trolls (for example with an extirpate) you can actually revive both Flayers, sacrifice them to some spells and have them return to play and deal massive damage to your opponent.
The cards:
Dredgers:
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Stinkweed Imp
4x Golgari Thug
4x
Shambling Shell
These are just your dredgers, the troll is also part of the combo but is here mainly because he is the biggest dredger in the game]]
Beaters:
4x
Ichorid
4x
Nether Shadow
4x Narcomoeba
These guys reanimate very easily and can quickly finish your opponent off if he has no way of dealing with them
Card Draw:
3x Gitaxian Probe
4x Street Wraith
These two cards are here just to activate dredge multiple times in a turn.
Other Cards:
4x Bridge from Below: this can make many many tokens.
4x Cabal Therapy: Great to discard stuff you want in your graveyard of get rid of key cards your opponent may have.
4x Dread Return: do i really need to explain this? No..
2x
Chancellor of the Annex
: some people run 4, some run none, I decided to run two of them, it is really good to reveal it turn 1 and deny his first play, he is also a very good Dread Return target against combo decks.
1x Flame-Kin Zealot: win con if you happen to have lots of tokens.
2x Flayer of the Hatebound: already explained this one.
4x Phantasmagorian: your best discard outlet, you can activate his ability multiple times in a turn if needed.
4x Blaustrade spy: if you get this into play you better win the game...
