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Grapple with the Past
Instant
common
Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
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A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”
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.
Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.
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.
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.
Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).
An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.
An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.
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Printings (10)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander#257 | common | · | · | · |
| Innistrad Remastered#199 | common | · | · | · |
| Innistrad Remastered#412 | common | · | · | · |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander#82 | common | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander#230 | common | · | · | · |
| Shadows over Innistrad Remastered#198 | common | · | · | · |
| Double Masters 2022#149 | common | · | · | · |
| The List#C18-148 | common | · | · | · |
| Commander 2018#148 | common | · | · | · |
| Eldritch Moon#160 | common | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
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.
Mill
For a player to mill a number of cards, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
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.
Dredge
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.”
A player with fewer cards in their library than the number required by a dredge ability can’t mill any of them this way.
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.
Rulings
Grapple with the Past doesn't target the card to return to your hand. After putting the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, you may choose from among any creature or land cards there.