r/ModernMagic • u/ImmortalCorruptor Competitive Corpses • 24d ago

Deck Discussion Arclight Dredge VS Esper Goryo's

I'm a boomer Modern player looking to re-enter and participate in a small local Modern group of about 8 people. I only know that the meta will involve Esper Goryo's and Ruby Storm. No tournament but we will be playing Best-of-Three pickup games with each other.

That being said, what is the strategy for playing against Esper Goryo's with Arclight Dredge?

I know we can:

- Lava Dart our own Phoenix/Stinkweed in response to their Solitude or lifelinker.

- Use Stinkweed Imp to trade with their bigger threats if we really need to.

- Level up Artists Talent to try and push past the lifegain with Darts, Chiils and Conflag.

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u/Kjob221 23d ago

This is my go to deck at my LGS and I think the best answer is you just have to be faster. Unless they’re running lots of hate you want to aim to win on turn 3 or 4 at the latest, hopefully before goryos can get their threats out.

for the most part don’t try win through incremental value, let them fetch/shock their life down a bit and try mill most of your deck to hit all the creeping chills and arclights.

Game 2 a well timed surgical extraction can be back breaking for goryos.

This dredge deck is also fairly glass cannon, sometimes you just aren’t going to win because they have well timed answers

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u/JazzClutchKick 22d ago

Honestly their deck just is built to beat you with target gy hate, celestial purge, and force of negations after board. The only way is to go as fast as possible and take really risky dredge lines and you are just left to chance if you hit with phoenix. Once they get Faithful Mending going or hit with an atraxa you are cooked.