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Cling to Dust 
Instant
Oracle Text
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.)
, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)Format Legality
PioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Cling to Dust, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duel Commander | 3 | 1 | 248 | 1 |
| Modern | 9 | 1.1 | 160 | 1.5 |
| Pioneer | 0 | 0 | 64 | 1.1 |
| Legacy | 3 | 1 | 34 | 1.5 |
Details
- Set
- The List
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- THB-87
Non-foil
Other Printings
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Cling to Dust
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (41)
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Censor
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Exclude
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Fact or Fiction
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Murderous Cut
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cremate
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Demonic Consultation
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Tainted Indulgence
- 1 Tyrant's Scorn
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Deprive
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Logic Knot
Enchantments (4)
Lands (35)
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Field of Ruin
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Forest
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 River of Tears
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Fallaji Archaeologist
- 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- 1 Grief
- 1 Spellseeker
- 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
- 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Magister of Worth
- 1 Ashen Rider
- 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
- 1 Hoarding Broodlord
- 1 Agent of Treachery
- 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
- 1 Archon of Cruelty
- 1 Lord of Change
- 1 Psychic Frog
- 1 Priest of Fell Rites
Sorceries (16)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (35)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Concealed Courtyard
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Island
- 1 Isolated Chapel
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Seachrome Coast
- 1 Shadowy Backstreet
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Tomb Fortress
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (41)
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Censor
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Exclude
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Fact or Fiction
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Murderous Cut
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cremate
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Demonic Consultation
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Tainted Indulgence
- 1 Tyrant's Scorn
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Deprive
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Logic Knot
Enchantments (4)
Lands (35)
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Field of Ruin
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Forest
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 River of Tears
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (32)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Prismari Command
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Snuff Out
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Galvanic Discharge
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Pyroblast
- 1 Tarfire
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Hydroblast
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mental Misstep
Artifacts (3)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (40)
- 1 Arena of Glory
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Riverglide Pathway
- 1 Riverpyre Verge
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Seat of the Synod
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Snow-Covered Island
- 1 Spirebluff Canal
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Stormcarved Coast
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (21)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (26)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Agonizing Remorse
- 1 Check for Traps
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Languish
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (39)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (24)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Agonizing Remorse
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Dead of Winter
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Yahenni's Expertise
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Innocent Blood
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Insatiable Avarice
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
- 1 Hymn to Tourach
- 1 Sign in Blood
- 1 Sinkhole
- 1 Mind Twist
Instants (17)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (38)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (33)
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Cosmic Rebirth
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Kaya's Guile
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Veil of Summer
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (41)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hedge Maze
- 1 Hinterland Harbor
- 1 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Willowrush Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (30)
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Daze
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Siphon Insight
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (41)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Castle Vantress
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Field of Ruin
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Riptide Laboratory
- 1 River of Tears
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 6 Snow-Covered Island
- 2 Snow-Covered Island
- 3 Snow-Covered Island
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sunken Hollow
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (35)
- 1 Eliminate
- 1 Go for the Throat
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Flare of Denial
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Flare of Malice
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Memory Deluge
- 1 Consume the Meek
- 1 Fact or Fiction
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Cut Down
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Gollum's Bite
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Siphon Insight
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
Lands (40)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Castle Vantress
- 1 Clearwater Pathway
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit
- 1 Drowned Catacomb
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 High Market
- 12 Island
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh
- 3 Swamp
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Watery Grave
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (29)
- 1 Long Goodbye
- 1 Tainted Pact
- 1 Cosmic Rebirth
- 1 Evasive Action
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Remand
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Kaya's Guile
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Cling to Dust
- 1 Fatal Push
- 1 Abrupt Decay
- 1 Planar Genesis
- 1 Eladamri's Call
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 1 Unholy Heat
- 1 Lightning Helix
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Drown in the Loch
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tithe
- 1 No More Lies
Enchantments (2)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Forest
- 1 Gloomlake Verge
- 1 Island
- 1 Ketria Triome
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Plains
- 1 Plateau
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Savannah
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Scrubland
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Xander's Lounge
- 1 Zagoth Triome
