Dredge
Instant
Sacrifice a creature or land.
Draw a card.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #20106
Dredge turns any draw into a mill-five plus recursion, converting your graveyard into a second hand at the cost of a card slot and your normal draw step. In decks built to abuse self-mill, that trade is overwhelmingly favorable — in anything else, it's a liability.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Dredge earns its slot only in dedicated graveyard decks — commanders like Gisa and Geralf, The Mimeoplasm, or Sidisi, Brood Tyrant that turn milled cards into resources rather than losses. Legacy Dredge is one of the most notorious combo shells ever built around a single mechanic, using Dredge cards alongside Bazaar of Baghdad to assemble Ichorid and Narcomoeba loops at blinding speed. Vintage allows the same lines with even more acceleration. The card is banned or not printed in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper, which tracks — the mechanic warps any format deep enough to support it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Dredge sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a format-defining mechanic in eternal formats. Supply is high enough from multiple printings to keep the price down, and that's unlikely to change — pick up copies without a second thought.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.