First printed in Ravnica: City of Guilds (2005)
All 6 prints
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Ravnica Remastered (RVR) #460, 2024
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The List (PLST) #RAV-230, 2020
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GRN Guild Kit (GK1) #70, 2018
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Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari (DDJ) #57, 2012
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Magic Online Theme Decks (TD0) #A105, 2010 (digital)
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Ravnica: City of Guilds (RAV) #230, 2005
Shambling Shell 
Creature — Plant Zombie
Sacrifice this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
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.)
3/1
- Illustrated by
- Joel Thomas
- Watermark
- Golgari
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (6)
- 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.
- Dredge can replace any card draw, not only the one during your draw step.
- 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.
- 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.
- You can't attempt to use a dredge ability if you don't have enough cards in your library.
- One card draw can't be replaced by multiple dredge abilities.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 29 Oct 2026).
Staple
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Vintage staples:
main deck, 5% of decks (#130)
Multicolor, Creatures, Recursion
Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.
Combos
7 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite self-mill: Benthic Biomancer + Shambling Shell + The Wise Mothman
- Infinite self-mill: Benthic Biomancer + Shambling Shell + Thran Vigil
- Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite lifegain…: Chains of Mephistopheles + Dredger's Insight + Marina Vendrell's Grimoire + Shambling Shell
- Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite lifegain…: Chains of Mephistopheles + Dredger's Insight + Lich's Mastery + Shambling Shell
- Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite lifegain…: Chains of Mephistopheles + Dredger's Insight + Drogskol Reaver + Shambling Shell
- Infinite self-mill: New Perspectives + Rhet-Tomb Mystic + Shambling Shell
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Shambling Shell + Thornbite Staff
