"Drown in Filth: When swimming is hazardous for your health"

"I told you , that turn was a bad idea" , The horse said to the Rider.

"Drown in Filth: When swimming is hazardous for your health"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr. 

     It seems like in the last expansion of Return to Ravnica all of the guilds have been given a spot removal that blends with that guilds mechanic quite smoothly.

     Since I am a Golgari I would like to talk about the Card Drown in Filth.With the Champions of each guild running the Implicit Maze you could only expect that all the guilds will be defending their gates. If you have watched the video trailer for Dragon's Maze you would have noticed a Knight drowning in a sea of rubbish and that is exactly the art on the card that I am writing about today.

     In Junk Reanimator Decks in Standard which uses Mulch and Grisly Salvage  , Drown in Filth could be a perfect fit since it offers spot removal while you also put cards from your library to your graveyard. You could mix 3 of each on a standard deck which make it 9 cards to mill your library , one gives you an option to land fetch , creature fetch and creature removal. 

"Ewwww...It really is dirty down here...."

     The tricky part is to have enough lands in the grave for it to be effective. Those -1/-1's will sure come in handy dealing with the indestructible Tajic or a Boros Reckoner whose ability would not trigger at all while you deal with it. Well with Mulch and Grisly Salvage the chances are that you would have enough land to remove creatures and have available creatures for the Scavenge mechanic to work.

     Drown in Filth is a gem in Golgari EDH decks because of its removal and self Mill properties. Jarad and a multitude of other creatures that depend on the grave as a stat pumper would have a happy day.The amount of land that falls in Dredge decks ensures that there will always be enough -1/-1 to kill most creatures that are bothering you. Well that is it for now. Keep on Tinkering!