Over the years, countless interactions with graveyards have been launched practically since the beginning of the game, thus making the graveyard become a valuable resource for some cards, as in a simpler example, Dragon's Rage Channeler and Unholy Heat, which get more powerful as your graveyard becomes full and diverse.ĭredge is a combination of several graveyard resources in a single deck.

'But why would I want to put my cards in the graveyard?', you may be asking yourself. Initially, the ability may have been thought of to give the player more recursion, returning specific cards to their hand instead of taking the risk of drawing a land in the late game, for example, but it gained more prominence as a way of putting cards in your graveyard aggressively, since, combined with draw spells and discards, the deck can use the ability to mill several cards during the turn.

For that, the dredged card needs to be in the graveyard, and you need to pay the Dredge cost, which is to mill a specific number of cards from your own deck, thus returning the specific card to the hand.

Dredge is an ability that allows you to return a certain card from the Graveyard to your hand, in place of any draws you would make during the turn (which may include your initial draw).

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