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common
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card 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.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.
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| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guilds of Ravnica#56 | common | · | · | · |
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Related Rules
Surveil
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.
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.
If a player is instructed to surveil 0, no surveil event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a player surveils won’t trigger.
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.
Rulings
Some spells that instruct you to surveil require targets. You can't cast a spell without choosing legal targets. If all of those targets become illegal, the spell doesn't resolve and you won't surveil.
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.