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Monomania - All Things Considered: Blue - Mono-Blue Staples
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Quantity: 36Price: $159.72
Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (scd) 44
1
Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
1
Braingeyser

Target player draws X cards.

Sorcery
Braingeyser (3ed) 50
1
Careful Consideration

Target player draws four cards, then discards three cards. If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead that player draws four cards, then discards two cards.

Instant
Careful Consideration (tsr) 56
1
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
1
Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Coastal Piracy (jmp) 144
1
Compulsive Research

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

Sorcery
Compulsive Research (clb) 715
1
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
1
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
1
Dictate of Kruphix

Flash At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (c18) 86
1
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (ncc) 219
1
Drawn from Dreams

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Drawn from Dreams (ncc) 220
1
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
1
Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game. Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (war) 51
1
Inspired Sphinx

Flying When Inspired Sphinx enters the battlefield, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have. {3}{U}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
1
Kumena's Awakening

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. If you have the city's blessing, instead only you draw a card.

Enchantment
Kumena's Awakening (rix) 42
1
Mind Unbound

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a lore counter on Mind Unbound, then draw a card for each lore counter on Mind Unbound.

Enchantment
Mind Unbound (m12) 68
1
Mulldrifter

Flying When Mulldrifter enters the battlefield, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (2x2) 60
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
1
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
1
One with the Machine

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

Sorcery
One with the Machine (brc) 90
1
Overwhelming Intellect

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Overwhelming Intellect (ddj) 28
1
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (moc) 230
1
Recurring Insight

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Recurring Insight (roe) 82
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1
Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Creature
Sai, Master Thopterist (brc) 93
1
Sphinx of Enlightenment

Flying When Sphinx of Enlightenment enters the battlefield, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.

Creature
Sphinx of Enlightenment (scd) 61
1
Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying When Sphinx of Uthuun enters the battlefield, 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.

Creature
Sphinx of Uthuun (cmr) 406
1
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (moc) 238
1
The Magic Mirror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Artifact
The Magic Mirror (eld) 51
1
Thirst for Knowledge

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

Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (brc) 96
1
Thirst for Meaning

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

Instant
Thirst for Meaning (thb) 74
1
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
1
Vedalken Archmage

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

Creature
Vedalken Archmage (jmp) 187
1
Well of Ideas

When Well of Ideas enters the battlefield, draw two cards. At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Enchantment
Well of Ideas (2xm) 75
1
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (khc) 46
1

Ramp

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Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (brc) 82
1
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
1
Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
1
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74
1
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (plst) ROE-91
1

The Should-Be Staples

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Curious Homunculus

Creature
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54
1
Dreamscape Artist

{2}{U}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Dreamscape Artist (tsr) 64
1
Flow of Ideas

Draw a card for each Island you control.

Sorcery
Flow of Ideas (shm) 38
1
Hieroglyphic Illumination

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

Instant
Hieroglyphic Illumination (j22) 307
1
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (plst) MRD-188
1
Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant
Keep Watch (hop) 10
1
Vedalken Engineer

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Creature
Vedalken Engineer (j22) 367
1

Win Conditions

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Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
1
Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery
Expropriate (plst) CN2-30
1
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (war) 54
1
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
1
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c21) 128
1
Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
Swarm Intelligence (c21) 130
1
Temporal Manipulation

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Manipulation (plst) UMA-77
1
Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters the battlefield, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73
1
Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Sorcery
Time Stretch (dmr) 69
1
Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Time Warp (m10) 75
1

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