
“Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead put N cards from the top of your library into your graveyard and return this card from your graveyard to your hand. If a player is instructed to draw multiple cards, that player performs that many individual card draws.ħ02.51a Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard. Then you return both of those cards to your hand and mill a number of cards equal to the sum of their Dredge numbers.ġ21.2. If you would like to dredge multiple cards in 1 action, you can shortcut this by saying "I'm going to draw 2 cards, I'm going to replace those draws with dredging CARDNAME1 and CARDNAME2". Then you return CARDNAME to your hand and mill that many cards. To do this "properly" in the most formal way, you would say "I'm drawing a card and replacing my draw with CARDNAME". Draw 3? Ok that's what I want, I'll Dredge using my other 2 draws instead of drawing".

So you could in theory be like "I'm looking for a specific card. More than that, though, when you draw cards, you do so one by one. Yes you can dredge both cards, and yes you can select which of the five draws you are choosing to replace with a dredge. 702.51b A player with fewer cards in his or her library than the number required by a dredge ability can’t put any of them into his or her graveyard this way.Yes and yes.“Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead put N cards from the top of your library into your graveyard and return this card from your graveyard to your hand.” 702.51a Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard.Outside Ravnica, Dredge has only been printed in Future Sight's Dakmor Salvage.

With this the card can fuel other cards such as Solitary Confinement, Seismic Assault or Retrace cards such as Raven's Crime. However, the most popular Dredge card is Life from the Loam which itself can refuel easily expendable land cards such as Cycling Lands or Fetchlands and put more of those lands into the graveyard using Dredge. Don’t be surprised that the older copies of this card have a different design. As well as Tarmogoyf, the Bridge was first introduced as a time-shifted card from the future in Future Sight set.

With the ability to mill the own deck, this mechanic has become highly popular various tournament formats enabling decks with Ichorid, Bridge from Below and Psychatog. This card from Modern Masters is a build-around card for Dredge decks, Bridge from Below. If a player draws a card and a card with Dredge is in the graveyard, the player may choose to instead put the top X cards from his or her library into his or her graveyard and return the card with Dredge to his or her hand. It is the ability of the Golgari Guild in Ravnica: City of Guilds and usually worded as "Dredge ".
