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Steam Augury

Steam Augury

Instant

rare

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

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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.

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
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (4)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Pioneer Masters#244uncommon···
Commander 2015#233rare···
Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning#68rare···
Theros#205rare···

Related Rules

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

2013-09-15

If one of the piles is empty, the opponent will choose whether to put the cards from the other pile into your hand or into your graveyard.

2013-09-15

Steam Augury doesn't target any opponent. In a multiplayer game, you choose the opponent as the spell resolves.