Looking at one of the games purest colors: White
No, counterspells don't interact with dredge
One big reason I love buying Pokmon cards at Barnes & Noble is because of their membership benefits, which you can use to get discounts on sets and packs
It eases you in, and for someone coming in with zero TCG experience like me, that accessibility genuinely worked
Back nearly a decade ago, the World of Warcraft TCG did a few things right and the games multiplayer experience, in the form of raid decks, rivaled its namesake MMO
On top of that, it shuts down opposing strategies that rely on +1/+1 counters, sagas, or other incremental counters, making it both an enabler for your plan and a roadblock for everyone else