Ross VS. Brad: Dredge VS. Grixis Death’s Shadow

It’s a Modern clash of titans ahead of SCG Charlotte! Ross Merriam is on Dredge, which won him an Open trophy in Syracuse. But can he withstand the buzzsaw that is Brad Nelson, playing the Grixis Death’s Shadow deck that he piloted to victory in Baltimore?

By Ross Merriam

June 6, 2017

Dredge Ben Friedman

Modern

2nd

Star City Games Modern Open

Baltimore, MD

May 26, 2017

Creature (19)

4

2

1

4

4

4

Sorcery (19)

4

Cathartic Reunion

4

Collective Brutality

3

4

Faithless Looting

4

Life from the Loam

Instant (2)

2

Land (20)

1

Blackcleave Cliffs

1

2

Bloodstained Mire

4

Copperline Gorge

2

2

1

2

1

Sheltered Thicket

2

Stomping Ground

2

Wooded Foothills

Sideboard

1

3

Engineered Explosives

1

Gnaw to the Bone

4

Leyline of the Void

3

Maelstrom Pulse

2

1

Vengeful Pharaoh

Grixis Death's Shadow Brad Nelson

Modern

1st

Star City Games Modern Open

Baltimore, MD

May 26, 2017

Creature (16)

4

2

4

Snapcaster Mage

4

2

Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Sorcery (10)

2

Inquisition of Kozilek

4

4

Instant (15)

4

2

Kolaghan's Command

1

2

Stubborn Denial

2

4

Land (19)

2

4

Bloodstained Mire

1

4

4

1

1

Swamp

2

Sideboard

3

Ceremonious Rejection

2

Collective Brutality

1

Izzet Staticaster

1

Kolaghan's Command

1

Kozilek's Return

1

Liliana, the Last Hope

2

Nihil Spellbomb

2

Stubborn Denial

2

Surgical Extraction