Card
Golgari Thug
Mana cost {1}{B}
When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 193 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · RAV · #87
- Cheapest printing
- €0.15
- EDHREC salt
- 0.38
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Dredge, Mill
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
193 known combos.
- Colossal Grave-Reaver + Altar of Dementia + Golgari Thug
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Rakdos, the Muscle + Golgari Thug + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Golgari Thug + Grim Haruspex + Ashnod's Altar + Pitiless Plunderer
Produces: Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite draw triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't attempt to use a dredge ability if you don't have enough cards in your library. - 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
One card draw can't be replaced by multiple dredge abilities. - 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
Dredge can replace any card draw, not only the one during your draw step. - 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
If an effect puts a card into your hand without specifically using the word "draw," you're not drawing a card. Dredge can't replace this event. - 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
Once you've announced that you're applying a card's dredge ability to replace a draw, players can't take any actions until you've put that card into your hand and milled cards. - 2024-01-12 · Wizards of the Coast
If you're drawing multiple cards, each draw is performed one at a time. For example, if you're instructed to draw two cards and you replace the first draw with a dredge ability, another card with a dredge ability (including one that was milled by the first dredge ability) may be used to replace the second draw.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast