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Roots of Wisdom
Sorcery
common
Mill three cards, then return a land card or Elf card from your graveyard to your hand. If you can't, draw a card. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
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A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.
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.
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.
An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.
An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
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Printings (2)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumpstart 2022#721 | common | · | · | · |
| Kaldheim#190 | common | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
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.
Mill
For a player to mill a number of cards, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
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.
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.
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
If there’s a land card or Elf card in your graveyard, you must return one. You can’t choose not to in order to draw a card.
Roots of Wisdom doesn’t target any cards in graveyards. You may return a land card or an Elf card that was just milled or one that was already there.