Creature Searching/Digging One thing we need to remember is that Augment cards are very narrow, and mostly pretty useless unless we have got a Host creature on the battlefield, so we will want some ways to find or dig for creature cards
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If you can handle that, you should be fine
It is possible to build a Dredge deck without Dread Return, or at least win without getting one into your graveyard
Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures
While there are other weird things you can do with activated abilities on creatures, the bread and butter of the deck will be cards like Will, Scion of Peace for cost reduction, Beacon of Immortality for big mills, and Sphinx of the Revelation to draw a lot of cards