Cling to Dust

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Name	Cling to Dust
Type	Instant
Description	Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card. Escape—, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Flavor	In bleak Tizerus, all hope crumbles in your grasp.
Artist	Caio Monteiro
Set	Theros Beyond Death #87
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Cling to Dust

Cling to Dust, Instant, designed by Caio Monteiro first released in Dec, 2019 in the set Theros Beyond Death. It see play in 3 formats: Pioneer, Modern and Legacy. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of $ 0.19.

Cling to Dust is a versatile card that can be beneficial in decks that focus on graveyard interaction, such as Dimir Control or Sultai Midrange, providing both graveyard hate and card advantage. While there are other cards like Scavenging Ooze or Tormod's Crypt that offer similar effects, Cling to Dust's flexibility as both graveyard hate and card draw makes it a solid choice for decks looking to disrupt opponent's graveyard strategies while also maintaining card advantage, making it a viable option for play in certain metagames.

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Rules

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Cling to Dust can target one of the five cards you’ll exile to pay its escape cost. In this case, the spell won’t resolve.

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If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

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If a card with escape is put into your graveyard during your turn, you’ll be able to cast it right away if it’s legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.

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If the target card is an illegal target by the time Cling to Dust tries to resolve, the spell won’t resolve. You won’t gain 3 life or draw a card.

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To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The converted mana cost of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.

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