There's no creature in Magic that has "return an enchantment from your graveyard to the battlefield" as a comes-into-play ability, which is a shame, because Dread Returning a Mortal Combat to play with an overfull graveyard would be the funniest Dredge win condition ever.
Player 1: "I dredge Golgari Grave-Troll again, and..."
Player 2: "Hold up a second. Like, half your deck's in the graveyard already. You don't even have a single Ichorid, Bloodghast, or Bridge From Below in there. Is this your unluckiest game ever, or, uh, does your deck even have a way to win?"
Player 1: *grin* You know how Dredge basically always relies on the same stupid combo?
Player 2: Yeah, tell me about it...
Player 1: Well, *my* Dredge deck's the C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER.
Mike-C
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card just got a WHOLE lot better with the sets Innistrad and Dark Ascension! Wow.
Trygon_Predator
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Probably pointless in a Dredge deck since things will be hopping in and out of the graveyard and killing the opponent in short order. It looks like a good alternate win condition in Commander, where games can get drawn out forever and you can have a creature-laden 100-card deck to dump in the graveyard (Traumatize says hi!).
Travelsonic
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@BayushiKazemi "If you've got 20 creatures in your graveyard, you should have won already."
That's rather .. ignorant. There are plenty of ways to get creatures into your graveyard quickly, that don't involve slowing the game down excessively. Take advantage of another player milling you, forcing you to discard cards, or even force yourself to do that. It also depends on the deck you go against too.
Burningsickle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Self-mill, Traumatize, a couple Auramancers or similar cards, and you've got a very efficient alternative win. Would be even cooler if there were a built in Prey Upon, but that is asking for a bit much lol. Congratulations, no one will ever want to play blue against you again! :D
RocOfKherRidges
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nobody mentioned Cabal Patriarch? Just don't use the second ability.
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There's no creature in Magic that has "return an enchantment from your graveyard to the battlefield" as a comes-into-play ability, which is a shame, because Dread Returning a Mortal Combat to play with an overfull graveyard would be the funniest Dredge win condition ever.
Player 1: "I dredge Golgari Grave-Troll again, and..."
Player 2: "Hold up a second. Like, half your deck's in the graveyard already. You don't even have a single Ichorid, Bloodghast, or Bridge From Below in there. Is this your unluckiest game ever, or, uh, does your deck even have a way to win?"
Player 1: *grin* You know how Dredge basically always relies on the same stupid combo?
Player 2: Yeah, tell me about it...
Player 1: Well, *my* Dredge deck's the C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER.
"If you've got 20 creatures in your graveyard, you should have won already."
That's rather .. ignorant. There are plenty of ways to get creatures into your graveyard quickly, that don't involve slowing the game down excessively. Take advantage of another player milling you, forcing you to discard cards, or even force yourself to do that. It also depends on the deck you go against too.
Congratulations, no one will ever want to play blue against you again! :D
A fun win condition that is so great to build around.