retrace and yawgmoth's will

[median]

I'm building a dryad deck and wanting to use raven's crime as my go off card. I'm wondering if i can draw cards off my will (say replay an ancestral)and then discard them to raven's crime for the retrace. the hope is i could get a big dryad and have an opponent with no cards in hand. would this work? or will the retrace card get put in my graveyard (and be removed via will) after the first casting, even though the retrace card was already in my graveyard.

thanks in advance

[Yare]

I think you're asking "If I resolve Yawgmoth's Will and then cast Raven's Crime from my graveyard using retrace rather than Yawgmoth's Will's effect, can I recast Raven's Crime over and over?" If that is not your question, please clarify what your question is.

Once Yawgmoth's Will has resolved, it doesn't care how a card is going to get into the graveyard. If a card would go to your graveyard for any reason (the spell resolves, the spell is countered, you discard a card, a Mox is destroyed by Gorilla Shaman, whatever), the card will be exiled rather than being put in your graveyard. So, if you cast Raven's Crime, it will be exiled, regardless of whether you cast it using retrace or not, and regardless of whether you're casting it from you hand or from your graveyard.

Also, Yawgmoth's Will removes itself from the game if it resolves rather than being placed in the graveyard. This is because putting cards in the graveyard is the last part of the resolution of a spell, so Yawgmoth's Will's "exile cards that would go to the graveyard" effect is already "on" by the time Yawgmoth's Will goes to finish its resolution.

[median]

ok, that was my question, and thanks for answering a few others.