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Cerebral Download

Cerebral Download

Instant

uncommon

Surveil X, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Then draw three cards. (To surveil X, look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

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Semantic Tags

Rewards controlling, casting, or sacrificing artifacts.

Card Drawmechanical

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.”

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

Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.

Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.

Topdeck Mattersmechanical

Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.

Format Legality

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

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Edge of Eternities#48uncommon···

Related Concepts

Surveil

To manipulate some of the cards on top of your library, sending some of them to your graveyard and rearranging the rest. See rule 701.25, “Surveil.”

Related Rules

701.25

Surveil

701.25a

To “surveil N” means to look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.

701.25b

If an effect allows you to look at additional cards while you surveil, those cards are included among the cards you may put into your graveyard and on top of your library in any order.

701.25c

If a player is instructed to surveil 0, no surveil event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a player surveils won’t trigger.

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

2025-07-25

The value of X is calculated only once, as Cerebral Download resolves.