That's the whole strategy in a nutshell - using the graveyard as an extension of your hand and make things happen out of nowhere without spending any mana. Similarly, no one wants the endgame engine that's also dumped along with the Dread Return fodder.
Modern doesn't have natural access to the returning Horror (and we can be sure Modern Horizons won't change that), and the format began its run with Dread Return firmly banned, as no one wants massive threats reanimated with ease through a trio of Narcomoebas or Bloodghasts brought about by Dredge's self-milling. The proliferation of Deathrite Shaman kept it at bay for a while in Legacy, but when the little Elf got banned last summer, it reopened the meta to Ichorid and Bridge from Below, as already detailed here on Cardmarket Insight. Players have been exploiting it ever since in Vintage and Legacy, single-handedly forcing anti-graveyard tech into every single sideboard in order to counter its often inescapable explosiveness.
This defining mechanic was introduced in Ravnica: City of Guilds as part of our initial meeting with the Golgari Swarm. Here's a fact that you might find quite strange to contemplate: Dredge has now been part of Magic: The Gathering for longer than it took for it to make its debut in 2005. This time, it's the turn of the most successful combo deck in the current meta, a unique strategy that the DCI bans have tried to keep in check since the very beginning of the format. In each installment of the Inner Workings series, we'll examine a different Modern archetype to find out what makes it tick.
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