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Making the Cut - Narrowing Options - Blue
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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (scd) 42
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
Blink of an Eye

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant
Blink of an Eye (dom) 46
Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (ncc) 216
Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Instant
Condescend (j22) 282
Countervailing Winds

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Countervailing Winds (hou) 32
Curious Homunculus

Creature
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (clb) 716
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (tsr) 61
Docent of Perfection

Creature
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (emn) 56Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (emn) 56
Domineering Will

Target player gains control of up to three target nonattacking creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They block this turn if able.

Instant
Domineering Will (clb) 719
Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Instant
Engulf the Shore (ddt) 5
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (c16) 91
Exclude

Counter target creature spell. Draw a card.

Instant
Exclude (jmp) 152
Fuel for the Cause

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Fuel for the Cause (mbs) 25
Grasping Current

Return up to two target creatures to their owner's hand. Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you searched your library this way, shuffle.

Sorcery
Grasping Current (xln) 282
Grip of the Roil

Surge {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.) Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Draw a card.

Instant
Grip of the Roil (ogw) 56
Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Enchantment
Inexorable Tide (mm2) 49
Insidious Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Insidious Will (kld) 52
Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
Jace, the Living Guildpact

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard. −3: Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. −8: Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You draw seven cards.

Planeswalker
Jace, the Living Guildpact (m15) 62
Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Memory Lapse (plst) EMA-60
Mind's Desire

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery
Mind's Desire (c21) 123
Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Miscalculation (ulg) 36
Order of Succession

Choose left or right. Starting with you and proceeding in the chosen direction, each player chooses a creature controlled by the next player in that direction. Each player gains control of the creature they chose.

Sorcery
Order of Succession (c13) 52
Political Trickery

Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery
Political Trickery (mir) 81
Polymorph

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.

Sorcery
Polymorph (plst) M10-67
Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Instant
Power Sink (6ed) 87
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (clb) 730
Psionic Blast

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Instant
Psionic Blast (2ed) 75
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (moc) 231
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (clb) 734
Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Remand (mm2) 55
Repulse

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Repulse (plst) CN2-119
Rethink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is its mana value.

Instant
Rethink (pcy) 42
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (dmr) 66
Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Spell Swindle (moc) 237
Spelltwine

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sorcery
Spelltwine (c17) 94
Stolen Goods

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Stolen Goods (c15) 107
Supreme Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Supreme Will (cmr) 102
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Sweep Away

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If that creature is attacking, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.

Instant
Sweep Away (jmp) 180
Temporal Fissure

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Temporal Fissure (plst) DDS-12
The Mirari Conjecture

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand. II — Return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. III — Until end of turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
The Mirari Conjecture (plst) DOM-57
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (c20) 126

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Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Aetherspouts (mic) 97
Call to Mind

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Call to Mind (c14) 101
Chemister's Insight

Draw two cards. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant
Chemister's Insight (plst) GRN-32
Clear the Mind

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Clear the Mind (plst) RNA-34
Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Sorcery
Compulsive Research (clb) 715
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (dmr) 46
Deepglow Skate

When this creature enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Creature
Deepglow Skate (2xm) 48
Devious Cover-Up

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Instant
Devious Cover-Up (mid) 48
Déjà Vu

Return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Déjà Vu (p02) 36
Ensnare

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Tap all creatures.

Instant
Ensnare (nem) 32
Exhaustion

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Sorcery
Exhaustion (9ed) 76
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 48
Flux

Each player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Flux (wth) 39
Foresee

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Foresee (tsr) 69
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
Grip of Phyresis

Gain control of target Equipment, then create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token and attach that Equipment to it.

Instant
Grip of Phyresis (cm2) 43
Gush

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Draw two cards.

Instant
Gush (plst) DD2-27
Hieroglyphic Illumination

Draw two cards. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Hieroglyphic Illumination (j22) 307
Into the Roil

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant
Into the Roil (cmr) 397
Jace, Architect of Thought

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn. −2: Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library in any order. −8: For each player, search that player's library for a nonland card and exile it, then that player shuffles. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Jace, Architect of Thought (nec) 93
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

+1: Scry 1, then draw a card. −2: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."

Planeswalker
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets (soi) 69
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

Creature
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound (ori) 60Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound (ori) 60
Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant
Keep Watch (hop) 10
Learn from the Past

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Draw a card.

Instant
Learn from the Past (dtk) 60
Manifold Insights

Reveal the top ten cards of your library. Starting with the next opponent in turn order, each opponent chooses a different nonland card from among them. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Manifold Insights (cm2) 44
Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Murmuring Mystic (c20) 118
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (ncc) 227
Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mystic Retrieval (c19) 90
Oath of Jace

When Oath of Jace enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, scry X, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.

Enchantment
Oath of Jace (ogw) 60
Oona's Grace

Target player draws a card. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Instant
Oona's Grace (c19) 91
Out of Bounds

Assist (Another player can pay up to {3} of this spell's cost.) Counter target spell.

Instant
Out of Bounds (bbd) 38
Plagiarize

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Instant
Plagiarize (10e) 97
Plea for Power

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for time or knowledge. If time gets more votes, take an extra turn after this one. If knowledge gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Plea for Power (plst) CNS-24
Rebuild

Return all artifacts to their owners' hands. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Rebuild (mh1) 66
Rupture

Sacrifice a creature. Rupture deals damage equal to that creature's power to each creature without flying and each player.

Sorcery
Rupture (nem) 97
Rush of Knowledge

Draw cards equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Sorcery
Rush of Knowledge (2xm) 66
Steady Progress

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Draw a card.

Instant
Steady Progress (plst) MM2-58
Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Syncopate (vow) 83
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. −2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls. −8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

Planeswalker
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage (j22) 358
Teferi, Temporal Archmage

+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library. −1: Untap up to four target permanents. −10: You get an emblem with "You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant." Teferi, Temporal Archmage can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Temporal Archmage (plst) C14-19
Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (ncc) 235
Tezzeret, Artifice Master

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. 0: Draw a card. If you control three or more artifacts, draw two cards instead. −9: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Planeswalker
Tezzeret, Artifice Master (j22) 360
Theft of Dreams

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Sorcery
Theft of Dreams (p02) 55
Thing in the Ice

Creature
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92
Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (brc) 96
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (2x2) 67

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