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Distant Memories

Distant Memories

Sorcery

rare

Search your library for a card, exile it, then shuffle. Any opponent may have you put that card into your hand. If no player does, you draw three cards.

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Semantic Tags

Cantripvector

A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Card Drawvector

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Dredgevector

A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”

Madnessvector

A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card they discard. See rule 702.35, “Madness.”

Tutormechanical

Searches your library for a specific card. Named after Demonic Tutor. Excludes land search (that's ramp).

Tutorvector

Searches your library for a specific card. Named after Demonic Tutor. Excludes land search (that's ramp).

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Mirrodin Besieged#24rare···

Related Rules

400.7k

After resolving a madness triggered ability (see rule 702.35), if the exiled card wasn’t cast and was moved to a public zone, effects referencing the discarded card can find that object.

702.35

Madness

702.35a

Madness is a keyword that represents two abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with madness is in a player’s hand. The second is a triggered ability that functions when the first ability is applied. “Madness [cost]” means “If a player would discard this card, that player discards it, but exiles it instead of putting it into their graveyard” and “When this card is exiled this way, its owner may cast it by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost. If that player doesn’t, they put this card into their graveyard.”

702.35b

Casting a spell using its madness ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.

702.35c

After resolving a madness triggered ability, if the exiled card wasn’t cast and was moved to a public zone, effects referencing the discarded card can find that card. See rule 400.7k.

702.52

Dredge

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.

Rulings

2011-06-01

If no opponent has you put the card into your hand, the card remains exiled.

2011-06-01

The card is exiled face up. Each opponent will know what the card is when deciding whether to have you put it in your hand.

2011-06-01

In multiplayer formats, your opponents each make the decision in turn order.