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The Circus | Jon Irenicus
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Commander

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Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Creature
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One (clb) 278

Commander

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Creature

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Ancient Carp

Creature
Ancient Carp (dtk) 44
Bellowing Fiend

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, this creature deals 3 damage to that creature's controller and 3 damage to you.

Creature
Bellowing Fiend (7ed) 119
Bogstomper

Creature
Bogstomper (m19) 87
Bronze Sable

Creature Artifact
Bronze Sable (cn2) 208
Chronatog

{0}: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You skip your next turn. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Chronatog (vis) 28
Coral Eel

Creature
Coral Eel (8ed) 70
Galedrifter

Creature
Galedrifter // Waildrifter (mid) 55Galedrifter // Waildrifter (mid) 55
Hasran Ogress

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 3 damage to you unless you pay {2}.

Creature
Hasran Ogress (chr) 34
Narwhal

First strike, protection from red

Creature
Narwhal (hml) 35
Poisonbelly Ogre

Whenever another creature enters, its controller loses 1 life.

Creature
Poisonbelly Ogre (gpt) 57
Wishcoin Crab

Creature
Wishcoin Crab (plst) GRN-60

Creature

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Evasion

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Chariot of Victory

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. Equip {1}

Artifact
Chariot of Victory (jou) 159
Cloak of the Bat

Equipped creature has flying and haste. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Cloak of the Bat (clb) 307

Evasion

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Mill

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Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107

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Recursion

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Aquatic Alchemist

Creature
Aquatic Alchemist // Bubble Up (woe) 40
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

Recursion

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Tutor

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Cruel Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Cruel Tutor (plst) POR-87
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Instant
Insidious Dreams (tor) 66
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Tutor

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Anthem

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Cairn Wanderer

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As long as a creature card with flying is in a graveyard, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud, and vigilance.

Creature
Cairn Wanderer (plst) LRW-105

Anthem

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Discard

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Black Cat

When this creature dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Creature
Black Cat (j22) 377
Cackling Fiend

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Cackling Fiend (dmr) 76

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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
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
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
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh2) 484
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (pip) 296
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh2) 485
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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Protection

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Amoeboid Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Creature
Amoeboid Changeling (j22) 269
Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity. Equip commander {3} Equip {5}

Artifact
Commander's Plate (cmr) 305
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
Dissipation Field

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dissipation Field (clb) 718
Evil Eye of Urborg

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

Creature
Evil Eye of Urborg (plst) TSP-107
Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible. Equip {4}

Artifact
Hammer of Nazahn (cmm) 388
Kaldra Compleat

Living weapon Indestructible Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, trample, indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature." Equip {7}

Artifact
Kaldra Compleat (cmm) 958
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (drc) 55
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85

Protection

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Removal

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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 (drc) 70
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 (dsc) 241
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Cresting Mosasaurus

Emerge {6}{U} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When this creature enters, if you cast it, return each non-Dinosaur creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Cresting Mosasaurus (rex) 2
Giant Oyster

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. {T}: For as long as this creature remains tapped, target tapped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step, and at the beginning of each of your draw steps, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, remove all -1/-1 counters from the creature.

Creature
Giant Oyster (hml) 28
It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
It That Betrays (cmm) 805
Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

Artifact
Quietus Spike (ncc) 377

Removal

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Untap

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Horseshoe Crab

{U}: Untap this creature.

Creature
Horseshoe Crab (dmr) 55

Untap

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Copy

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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. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (mb2) 96

Copy

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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
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208

Drain

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Landfall

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Calcite Snapper

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Creature
Calcite Snapper (wwk) 25

Landfall

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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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Stax

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Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344

Stax

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Counters

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Mortician Beetle

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Mortician Beetle (mm3) 78

Counters

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Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (mb2) 39
Bonded Fetch

Defender, haste {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Bonded Fetch (tsr) 54
Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (clb) 717
Infiltration Lens

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Infiltration Lens (j22) 777
Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mask of Memory (onc) 136
Master of the Feast

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Creature Enchantment
Master of the Feast (jou) 75
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371

Draw

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Lifegain

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Diamond Mare

As this creature enters, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Diamond Mare (plst) M19-231

Lifegain

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Bronze Walrus

When this creature enters, 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.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Bronze Walrus (clb) 302
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (mb2) 177
Copy Artifact

You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Copy Artifact (3ed) 53
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56

Ramp

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Tokens

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Ancient Stone Idol

Flash This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature. Trample When this creature dies, create a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample.

Creature Artifact
Ancient Stone Idol (mkc) 222

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Maybeboard

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Acquisition Octopus

Whenever this creature or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Acquisition Octopus (neo) 44
Andradite Leech

Black spells you cast cost {B} more to cast. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Andradite Leech (inv) 93
Anurid Murkdiver

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Creature
Anurid Murkdiver (ons) 124
Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (dmr) 39
Arm-Mounted Anchor

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a Pirate card. Equip {2}. This ability costs {2} less to activate if you have one or fewer cards in hand.

Artifact
Arm-Mounted Anchor (lcc) 99
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Basal Thrull

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B}.

Creature
Basal Thrull (fem) 34d
Benthic Giant

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature
Benthic Giant (plst) BBD-113
Blade of Shared Souls

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.) Whenever this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, for as long as this Equipment remains attached to it, you may have that creature become a copy of another target creature you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Blade of Shared Souls (one) 42
Brawler's Plate

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Brawler's Plate (ori) 224
Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (fdn) 170
Cackling Witch

{X}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Cackling Witch (plst) MMQ-119
Canyon Crab

{1}{U}: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, if you haven't cast a spell from your hand this turn, draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Canyon Crab (otj) 40
Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Cemetery Reaper (drc) 87
Clinging Anemones

Defender Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Clinging Anemones (gtc) 31
Clockwork Gnomes

{3}, {T}: Regenerate target artifact creature.

Creature Artifact
Clockwork Gnomes (hml) 102
Cloud Pirates

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Creature
Cloud Pirates (por) 46d
Colossal Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Creature
Colossal Whale (ltc) 186
Cursed Monstrosity

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it unless you discard a land card.

Creature
Cursed Monstrosity (ody) 126
Dakmor Ghoul

When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dakmor Ghoul (s99) 70
Darksteel Plate

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Artifact
Darksteel Plate (2x2) 304
Diplomatic Immunity

Enchant creature Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Enchanted creature has shroud.

Enchantment
Diplomatic Immunity (mmq) 75
Doc Ock, Evil Inventor

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target noncreature artifact you control becomes an 8/8 Robot Villain artifact creature in addition to its other types.

Creature
Doc Ock, Evil Inventor (spe) 24
Dune Beetle

Creature
Dune Beetle (j22) 407
Exchange of Words

When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as this enchantment remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment
Exchange of Words (unf) 45
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (dsc) 78
Grid Monitor

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Grid Monitor (mrd) 183
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (inr) 117
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
Leech Gauntlet

Lifelink Equipped creature has lifelink. Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Leech Gauntlet (neo) 106
Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

Artifact
Loxodon Warhammer (onc) 135
Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 95
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
Resurrection Orb

Equipped creature has lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Resurrection Orb (40k) 165
Rhystic Tutor

Unless any player pays {2}, search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rhystic Tutor (pcy) 77
Rust Elemental

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another artifact. If you can't, tap this creature and you lose 4 life.

Creature Artifact
Rust Elemental (mrd) 234
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (moc) 384
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

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0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
30 pips - 22 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
35 pips - 25 cards
29 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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