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Life from the Loam
Sorcery
rare
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Semantic Tags
A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”
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.
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.
An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.
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Price history
Printings (16)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eternal Weekend#2026b | rare | · | · | · |
| The Zeta Set#322 | rare | · | · | · |
| The Zeta Set#201 | rare | · | · | · |
| The Zeta Set#80 | rare | · | · | · |
| Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander#96 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ravnica Remastered#350 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ravnica Remastered#148 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ravnica Remastered#434 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ravnica Remastered#350z | rare | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Drop#8 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ultimate Masters#172 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ultimate Box Topper#U17 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Modern Masters#153 | rare | · | · | · |
| Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari#69 | rare | · | · | · |
| Magic Online Theme Decks#A79 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ravnica: City of Guilds#172 | rare | · | · | · |
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
You can't attempt to use a dredge ability if you don't have enough cards in your library.
Once you've announced that you're applying a card's dredge ability to replace a draw, players can't take any actions until you've put that card into your hand and milled cards.
If an effect puts a card into your hand without specifically using the word "draw," you're not drawing a card. Dredge can't replace this event.
If you're drawing multiple cards, each draw is performed one at a time. For example, if you're instructed to draw two cards and you replace the first draw with a dredge ability, another card with a dredge ability (including one that was milled by the first dredge ability) may be used to replace the second draw.
One card draw can't be replaced by multiple dredge abilities.
Dredge can replace any card draw, not only the one during your draw step.