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Say Its Name

Say Its Name

Sorcery

common

Mill three cards. Then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile this card and two other cards named Say Its Name from your graveyard: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named Altanak, the Thrice-Called and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Semantic Tags

Graveyard Hatemechanical

Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.

Millmechanical

To mill a number of cards, a player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard. See rule 701.17.

Millvector

To mill a number of cards, a player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard. See rule 701.17.

Self-Millmechanical

An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardlegal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperlegal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemylegal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Duskmourn: House of Horror#197common···

Related Concepts

Mill

To mill a number of cards, a player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard. See rule 701.17.

Related Rules

614.13c

While applying a replacement effect that modifies how a permanent enters the battlefield, another replacement effect may cause a player to mill cards or exile cards from the top of a library. In that case, any card that is entering the battlefield from that library won’t be included in that effect, even though those cards are in the library as the effect is applied.

701.17

Mill

701.17a

For a player to mill a number of cards, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.

701.17b

A player can’t mill a number of cards greater than the number of cards in their library. If given the choice to do so, they can’t choose to take that action. If instructed to do so, they mill as many as possible. Similarly, the player can’t pay a cost that includes milling a number of cards greater than the number of cards in their library.

702.52a

Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard. “Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead mill N cards and return this card from your graveyard to your hand.”

702.52b

A player with fewer cards in their library than the number required by a dredge ability can’t mill any of them this way.

801.7a

If a trigger event includes an object moving out of or into a player’s range of influence, use the game state before or after the event as appropriate to determine whether the triggered ability will trigger. See rules 603.6 and 603.10.