Aphetto Dredging
Sorcery
Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #16719
Aphetto Dredging returns up to three Zombie or Wizard creatures from your graveyard to your hand for three mana — meaningful recursion volume at a low ask. It's narrow by type but hits hard in the right shell, and the cycling clause means it's never a dead card.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aphetto Dredging is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games give you time to stock the graveyard and make three-creature recursion feel like a windfall rather than a consolation. In Pauper it's legal and theoretically playable in Zombie or Wizard tribal, though the format's faster clock makes sorcery-speed hand refill a harder sell. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but those formats don't want this effect at this speed. Stick to Commander, where the tribal typing is a feature, not a limitation.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Aphetto Dredging is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any commons box without thinking twice. Demand is narrow enough that the price won't move, but for Zombie or Wizard tribal Commander decks it's a free inclusion at this rate.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.