#killergabite

Each dredge card in your graveyard can only replace one card draw, so you would need five dredge cards in your graveyard to fully replace the draw effect. Note that each dredge resolves one at a time, so dredging one card can put another dredge card in your graveyard and allow you to continue dredging.

why do you guys think it’s bad, I liked it. Aside from a slight issue of pacing i didn’t see much wrong with it.

the tone/style of the writing was inappropriate for the mood of the set and was incredibly clunky at times (using 19 individual names in a single sentence, listing 16 of them consecutively). 

there were continuity problems.  major plot points that were set up in ixalan were dropped (jace returning vraska’s memories, jace planning with niv-mizzet before he died). jace literally shouldnt have had time to go on a weeks-long quest to find nissa because he was supposed to be on ravnca making plans with niv-mizzet.

No.

Tribute is a replacement effect, not a triggered ability so tribute will have been paid or not by the time that Flame-Wreathed Phoenix enters the battlefield. 

However, the “if tribute wasn’t paid” ability is a trigger and you can bolt the Phoenix before the trigger resolves and the phoenix gains the return trigger and haste.