

Since delve cards consume one resource (cards in your graveyard), they don’t work well together. After that Khans of Tarkir and Fate Reforged printed the bulk of the delve cards. The first set this mechanic appeared in was Future Sight in 2007, on Tombstalker, Logic Knot, and Death Rattle. One of them could be cast for while the other requires at least. Murderous Cut | Illustration by Yohann Schepaczĭelve is a mechanic that lets you exile a card in your graveyard to pay for of that spell’s cost.Ĭards that have only one colored pip in their mana cost, like Gurmag Angler, are generally better than cards that have two or more colored pips, like Tombstalker. Can I Delve Additional Cards in my Graveyard in Response to a Mana Leak-Type Counterspell?.Does Delve Affect the Mana Value of the Spell?.“Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead put N cards from the top of your library into your graveyard and return this card from your graveyard to your hand. If a player is instructed to draw multiple cards, that player performs that many individual card draws.ħ02.51a Dredge is a static ability that functions only while the card with dredge is in a player’s graveyard. Then you return both of those cards to your hand and mill a number of cards equal to the sum of their Dredge numbers.ġ21.2. If you would like to dredge multiple cards in 1 action, you can shortcut this by saying "I'm going to draw 2 cards, I'm going to replace those draws with dredging CARDNAME1 and CARDNAME2". Then you return CARDNAME to your hand and mill that many cards. To do this "properly" in the most formal way, you would say "I'm drawing a card and replacing my draw with CARDNAME".

Draw 3? Ok that's what I want, I'll Dredge using my other 2 draws instead of drawing". So you could in theory be like "I'm looking for a specific card. More than that, though, when you draw cards, you do so one by one. Yes you can dredge both cards, and yes you can select which of the five draws you are choosing to replace with a dredge.
