Card
Life from the Loam
Mana cost {1}{G}
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 53 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · RAV · #172
- Cheapest printing
- €5.04
- EDHREC salt
- 0.61
- Color identity
- Green
- 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
53 known combos.
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Glacial Chasm + Life from the Loam
Produces: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - Six + Life from the Loam + Lion's Eye Diamond
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite storm count, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Azusa, Lost but Seeking + Life from the Loam + Walk the Aeons
Produces: Near-infinite turns, Lock
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
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 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
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. - 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.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast