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Wydwen, the Biting Gale

Flash Flying {U}{B}, Pay 1 life: Return Wydwen to its owner's hand.

Creature
Wydwen, the Biting Gale (lrw) 253

Commander

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Drain

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142

Drain

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Protection

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High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature
High Fae Trickster (fdn) 40
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (c13) 53
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (5dn) 163

Protection

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Removal

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Argentum Armor

Equipped creature gets +6/+6. Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent. Equip {6}

Artifact
Argentum Armor (afc) 198
Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (fdn) 669
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Crypt Incursion (dgm) 23
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (sld) 121
Defabricate

Choose one — • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. • Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Instant
Defabricate (bro) 45
Dimir Charm

Choose one — • Counter target sorcery spell. • Destroy target creature with power 2 or less. • Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Dimir Charm (gtc) 154
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Eaten Alive (inr) 106
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (j25) 467
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Tidecaller Mentor

Menace Threshold — When this creature enters, if seven or more cards are in your graveyard, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Tidecaller Mentor (blb) 236
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Vendilion Clique

Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.

Creature
Vendilion Clique (mma) 70
Voidwalk

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Voidwalk (gtc) 55
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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Draw

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Circuit Mender

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (blc) 267
Diabolic Vision

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.

Sorcery
Diabolic Vision (dsc) 87
Dire Undercurrents

Whenever a blue creature you control enters, you may have target player draw a card. Whenever a black creature you control enters, you may have target player discard a card.

Enchantment
Dire Undercurrents (shm) 159
Dream Salvage

Draw cards equal to the number of cards target opponent discarded this turn.

Instant
Dream Salvage (shm) 160
Lich's Mastery

Hexproof You can't lose the game. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard. When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (m14) 225
Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (j25) 387

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178

Pump

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Tutor

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Clutch of the Undercity

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, 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
Clutch of the Undercity (plst) RAV-197
Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (cma) 54
Ethereal Usher

{U}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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.)

Creature
Ethereal Usher (rav) 47
Netherborn Phalanx

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, 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.)

Creature
Netherborn Phalanx (rav) 99
Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, 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
Perplex (rav) 217
Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Vile Entomber (mh2) 108
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

Tutor

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Bounce

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Glen Elendra Pranksters

Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Glen Elendra Pranksters (j22) 305

Bounce

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Dreadship Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Land
Dreadship Reef (tsr) 276
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dmu) 265
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (40k) 291
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (fdn) 264
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmu) 268
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Ramp

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Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {3}

Artifact
Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus (moc) 45
Brass Squire

{T}: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Brass Squire (cmr) 460
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Geyser Drake

Flying During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Geyser Drake (otj) 51
Naiad of Hidden Coves

During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Enchantment
Naiad of Hidden Coves (j25) 333
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 408
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (sld) 1113
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (ltc) 355

Ramp

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Discard

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Distress

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Distress (m12) 94
Ego Drain

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. If you don't control a Faerie, exile a card from your hand.

Sorcery
Ego Drain (woe) 86
Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery
Mind Twist (30a) 112
Thought Erasure

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Thought Erasure (plst) GRN-206
Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (2xm) 109

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Mill

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Cut Your Losses

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Cut Your Losses (snc) 38
Grindclock

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Grindclock (som) 163
Millstone

{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards.

Artifact
Millstone (m14) 213
Mind Funeral

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until four land cards are revealed. That player puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard.

Sorcery
Mind Funeral (plst) MMA-181
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866

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Recursion

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (j25) 285
Cadaver Imp

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Cadaver Imp (cmm) 141
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) When Emry enters, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (brc) 81
Gravedigger

When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Gravedigger (j25) 452
Writ of Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Writ of Return (ncc) 42

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip {5}

Artifact
Helm of the Host (blc) 276
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Orbs of Warding

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) If a creature would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Artifact
Orbs of Warding (ori) 234
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 "{2}{U}{U}: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."

Creature
Sakashima the Impostor (plst) SOK-53
Talion, the Kindly Lord

Flying As Talion enters, choose a number between 1 and 10. Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value, power, or toughness equal to the chosen number, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Talion, the Kindly Lord (woe) 215

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