Turbo Satoru Dredge: Guide Overview!

Hello, everyone! I'm revising and expanding the Complete Guide to Playing Turbo Satoru Dredge. This is the biggest and best guide I've ever created for a deck. It's the size of a full book!

Turbo Satoru Dredge is the deck I used to secure second place in the Legacy Showcase Challenge, earning an invitation to the closed Legacy Qualifier Tournament in April.

Since I'm passionate about the deck and an obsessive editor, I'm organizing all the content in the best way possible for you. To make reading more accessible, I'll post each chapter separately and compile them into a single collection here on Patreon for easy access later.

I'll finish revising the first three chapters and post them tonight. Chapters four and five are longer, so I plan to release them together by Wednesday. Chapters six, seven, eight, and nine will be posted by the weekend. Chapters ten, eleven, and twelve are quite extensive—when I call a guide "detailed," I mean it!—and will be published throughout next week.

I've structured it as follows:

1. Introduction: WHAT IS TURBO SATORU DREDGE?

2. HOW THE DECK WORKS, step by step

3. YOUR DIFFERENT PATHS TO VICTORY
3.1. Angry Zombies
3.2. Dread Return > Ox/Satoru > Dread Return > Thassa’s Oracle
3.3. Natural Gameplay > Thassa’s Oracle
3.4. Ox/Satoru > Bury the Opponent with Card Advantage
3.5. Natural Gameplay: Attacking with Creatures and Disrupting the Opponent’s Hand
3.6. Milling the Opponent with Cephalid Coliseum
3.7. When Your Opponent Concedes to Hide Information

4. A CARD-BY-CARD ANALYSIS – the maindeck
4.1 Lands
4.1.1 Basic Lands
4.1.2 Dual Lands (plus Budget Considerations)
4.1.3 Fetch Lands
4.1.4 Cephalid Coliseum
4.2 Enablers (15 cards)
4.2.1 Faithless Looting
4.2.2 Otherworldly Gaze
4.2.3 Lion’s Eye Diamond (plus Budget Considerations)
4.2.4 Breakthrough
4.2.5 Careful Study
4.3 Dredgers (11 cards)
4.3.1 Golgari Grave-Troll
4.3.2 Stinkweed Imp
4.3.3 Golgari Thug
4.4 Free Threats (10 cards)
4.4.1 Narcomoeba
4.4.2 Bridge from Below
4.4.3 Poxwalkers
4.5 Combo Pieces
4.5.1 Cabal Therapy
4.5.1.1 How to Snipe and Always Hit with Your First Therapy
4.5.2 Dread Return
4.5.3 Anger
4.5.4 Ox of Agonas
4.5.5 Satoru, the Infiltrator
4.5.6 Thassa’s Oracle

5. A CARD-BY-CARD ANALYSIS – the sideboard
5.1 Bounce Spells
5.1.1 Into the Flood Maw
5.1.2 Kiora's Dismissal
5.2 Answers to Graveyard Interaction
5.2.1 Leyline of the Void
5.2.2 Silent Gravestone
5.3 Answers to Grafdigg… I mean, to Artifacts
5.3.1 Shenanigans
5.4 The Flexible Slots – Currently: Answers to Dangerous Triggers and Colorless Cards
5.5 Cards Not in the List Right Now but Viable in Specific Metagames
5.5.1 Leyline of Sanctity
5.5.2 Ichorid
5.5.3 Ashen Rider
5.5.4 Null Rod
5.5.5 Mindbreak Trap

6. Various Synergies and Important Interactions

7. What to Prioritize in Your Opening Hand in Different Scenarios

8. Sideboarding
8.1 The 36 Essential Maindeck Cards – Never Remove These!
8.2 Cards You Can Trim – Only One Copy!
8.3 High-Frequency Sideboard Targets – Cards You Might Remove Completely
8.4 Remove These Cards Only as a Last Resort
8.5 The Sideboard

9. Keep or Mull?
9.1 Mulligan Decisions When Playing Turbo Satoru Dredge: It's Not What You Might Think
9.2 Key Examples to Always Keep in Mind
9.3 Practical Exercises for Evaluating Opening Hands (with Answers)

10. Detailed Sideboard Guide Against 30+ Decks

11. Full Matchup Guides: Everything You Need to Know
11.1 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Tempo Decks (UR Delver, Grixis Delver, RUG Delver, UB Tempo)
11.2 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. UB Reanimator
11.3 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Mono Red Prison
11.4 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Eldrazi
11.5 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Oops! All Spells
11.6 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Storm
11.7 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Nadu Breakfast
11.8 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Sneak and Show
11.9 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Lands
11.10 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Doomsday
11.11 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Painter
11.12 Turbo Satoru Dredge vs. Death and Taxes

12. Why Is This Currently the Best Dredge Deck?
12.1 Comparing Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Dredge Decks
12.2 Knowing When to Adapt the Deck to Keep Winning in Different Local Metagames

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Keep dredging!