“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. Dredge is a known strategy in Modern given how easy it is to fill up your graveyard and throw those cards at the opponent's face. 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.

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