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Demogorgon's Clutches

Demogorgon's Clutches

Sorcery

uncommon

Target opponent discards two cards, mills two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

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Semantic Tags

Hand Disruptionmechanical

Forces opponents to discard cards from their hand. Targeted discard, mass discard, and discard-or-pay effects.

Millmechanical

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.

Millvector

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.

Self-Millmechanical

An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.

Self-Millvector

An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (2)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate#151common···
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms#96uncommon···

Related Concepts

Mill

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.

Related Rules

614.13c

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.

701.17

Mill

701.17a

For a player to mill a number of cards, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.

701.17b

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.

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.

801.7a

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

2021-07-23

Demogorgon's Clutches requires its target to discard cards before milling cards. This means they do not get to know what cards are milled when they choose what cards to discard.