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Talrand, Sky Summoner
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Talrand, Sky Summoner (cmm) 673

Commander

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Blink of an Eye
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
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 (j25) 289
Capsize
Buyback
(You may pay an additional
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
Hullbreaker Horror
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Creature - Horror Kraken
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 68

Bounce

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Sakashima the Impostor
You may have Sakashima the Impostor enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its name is Sakashima the Impostor, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has "
: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Sakashima the Impostor (plst) SOK-53

Clones

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Isochron Scepter
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
,
: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Artifact
Isochron Scepter (mrd) 188
Narset's Reversal
Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Instant
Narset's Reversal (war) 62

Copy

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An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (all) 22b
Archmage's Charm
Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
Instant
Archmage's Charm (otp) 8
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 630
Cryptic Command
Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
Instant
Cryptic Command (plst) IMA-48
Disallow
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
Exclude
Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.
Instant
Exclude (plst) MH1-48
Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
Force of Negation
If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Force of Negation (mh1) 52
Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Force of Will (olgc) 2011
Mana Drain
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of
equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Mana Drain (otp) 11
Mystic Confluence
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.
Instant
Mystic Confluence (ncc) 227
Overwhelming Intellect
Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Overwhelming Intellect (ddj) 28
Pact of Negation
Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
. If you don't, you lose the game.
Instant
Pact of Negation (mma) 56
Rewind
Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.
Instant
Rewind (usg) 93
Strix Serenade
Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 327
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
Three Steps Ahead
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Counter target spell.
+
— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+
— Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Three Steps Ahead (potj) 75s

Counter Magic

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A Little Chat
Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
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.
Instant
A Little Chat (snc) 47
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (mmq) 61
Consecrated Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Creature - Sphinx
Consecrated Sphinx (mbs) 21
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
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 (dsc) 115
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (inv) 64
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Search for Azcanta
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Legendary Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74
Think Twice
Draw a card.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Think Twice (fdn) 315

Draw

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Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Lonely Sandbar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Lonely Sandbar (mkc) 273
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (c20) 301
Snow-Covered Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Island
Snow-Covered Island (mh1) 251
Terrain Generator
: Add
.
,
: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Land
Terrain Generator (clb) 926
Tolaria West
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Land
Tolaria West (plst) FUT-173

Land

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Propaganda
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Propaganda (tmp) 80

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (c20) 237
Chrome Mox
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
Artifact
Chrome Mox (mrd) 152
Coldsteel Heart
This artifact enters tapped.
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Snow Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (csp) 136
Extraplanar Lens
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.
Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 656
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cm2) 189
Mana Vault
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add
.
Artifact
Mana Vault (3ed) 263
Sky Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Sky Diamond (cmr) 341
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Star Compass
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.
Artifact
Star Compass (plst) PLS-134
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (c15) 55

Ramp

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Cyber Conversion
Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.
Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 38

Removal

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Arcane Laboratory
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
Enchantment
Arcane Laboratory (plst) 7ED-60
Back to Basics
Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Enchantment
Back to Basics (mb2) 154
Frozen Aether
Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Frozen Aether (plc) 54
Harbinger of the Seas
Nonbasic lands are Islands.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Harbinger of the Seas (mh3) 451
Overburden
Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Overburden (pcy) 39
Stormtide Leviathan
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.
Creature - Leviathan
Stormtide Leviathan (m13) 70
Telepathy
Your opponents play with their hands revealed.
Enchantment
Telepathy (10e) 113
Torpor Orb
Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.
Artifact
Torpor Orb (nph) 162
Winter Moon
Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.
Artifact
Winter Moon (mh3) 213

Stax

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Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
Perplexing Test
Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Perplexing Test (blc) 171
Scourge of Fleets
When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Creature - Kraken
Scourge of Fleets (ddo) 41
Spectral Deluge
Return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Sorcery
Spectral Deluge (khc) 7

Sweeper

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Aethersnatch
Gain control of target spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell becomes a permanent, it enters under your control.)
Instant
Aethersnatch (c15) 9
Desertion
Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.
Instant
Desertion (cn2) 107
Guile
This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
If a spell or ability you control would counter a spell, instead exile that spell and you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
When Guile is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Guile (lrw) 69
Vedalken Shackles
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
,
: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
Artifact
Vedalken Shackles (5dn) 164

Theft

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Docent of Perfection
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token. Then if you control three or more Wizards, transform this creature.
Creature - Horror Insect
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (emn) 56Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (emn) 56

Tokens

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Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (plst) SS1-6

Tutor

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Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Aetherspouts
For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Instant
Aetherspouts (mic) 97
Anticipate
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Anticipate (m20) 45
Archaeomancer
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archaeomancer (m13) 41
Bane's Contingency
Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.
Instant
Bane's Contingency (clb) 57
Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Deliberate
Scry 2, then draw a card.
Instant
Deliberate (znr) 56
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 (grn) 35
Dismiss
Counter target spell.
Draw a card.
Instant
Dismiss (j22) 286
Dramatic Reversal
Untap all nonland permanents you control.
Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
Fabricate
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Fabricate (mrd) 35
Faerie Mastermind
Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
: Each player draws a card.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Faerie Mastermind (pmom) 58s
Forbid
Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.
Instant
Forbid (plst) EXO-35
Future Sight
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Enchantment
Future Sight (sld) 1178
Gitaxian Probe
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (nph) 35
Heraldic Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Inundate
Return all nonblue creatures to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Inundate (eve) 25
Jace's Sanctum
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.
Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 59
Kill Switch
,
: Tap all other artifacts. They don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
Artifact
Kill Switch (nem) 133
Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Artifact
Meekstone (mb2) 227
Mission Briefing
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Instant
Mission Briefing (grn) 44
Muddle the Mixture
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 50
Octavia, Living Thesis
This spell costs
less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Octopus
Octavia, Living Thesis (otc) 103
Overwhelming Denial
Surge
(You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Overwhelming Denial (ogw) 61
Patchwork Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Patchwork Banner (pmei) 2024-7
Peek
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.
Instant
Peek (10e) 94
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
Precognition Field
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
: Exile the top card of your library.
Enchantment
Precognition Field (dom) 61
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To 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.)
Sorcery
Preordain (m11) 70
Radical Idea
Draw a card.
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
Radical Idea (grn) 52
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 (rvr) 59
Saw It Coming
Counter target spell.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Instant
Saw It Coming (khm) 76
Snapcaster Mage
Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Snapcaster Mage (plst) ISD-78
Spell Crumple
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Put Spell Crumple on the bottom of its owner's library.
Instant
Spell Crumple (cm2) 50
Summary Dismissal
Exile all other spells and counter all abilities.
Instant
Summary Dismissal (m3c) 193
Unsubstantiate
Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.
Instant
Unsubstantiate (plst) EMN-79
Winged Words
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Winged Words (m20) 80
Wizard's Retort
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Wizard's Retort (jmp) 198

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