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Captain N'ghathrod
Horrors you control have menace.
Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Horror Pirate
Captain N'ghathrod (clb) 646

Commander

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (blc) 162
Eagle Vision
Freerunning
(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Eagle Vision (acr) 17
Enduring Curiosity
Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Cat Glimmer
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 51
Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
When one or more of your opponents are dealt combat damage during your turn, draw two cards. If your library has no cards in it, you win the game. Fblthp's owner shuffles him into their library. (If you draw from an empty library this way, you still win the game.)
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Fblthp, Impossibly Lost (fra) 213
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Horror
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (clb) 723
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(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
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 420
Notion Thief
Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.
Creature - Human Rogue
Notion Thief (znc) 96
Silent Hallcreeper
This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• Draw a card.
• This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Silent Hallcreeper (dsk) 72
Struggle for Project Purity
As this enchantment enters, choose Brotherhood or Enclave.
• Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way.
• Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.
Enchantment
Struggle for Project Purity (pip) 39
The Theorist, Jace Beleren
At the beginning of each opponent's draw step, you draw a card.
+1: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token.
−2: For each opponent, return up to one target artifact or creature that player controls to its owner's hand.
−6: Draw three cards. Then put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
The Theorist, Jace Beleren (fra) 43

Card Advantage

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Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Impulse
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
Impulse (plst) BBD-119
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 (plst) RAV-60
Portent
Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Sorcery
Portent (c18) 97
Shimmer of Possibility
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 a random order.
Sorcery
Shimmer of Possibility (rna) 51

Card Selection

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Auton Soldier
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Creature Artifact - Soldier Alien
Auton Soldier (who) 36
Irenicus's Vile Duplication
Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.
Sorcery
Irenicus's Vile Duplication (clb) 78
Mockingbird
Flying
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield with mana value less than or equal to the amount of mana spent to cast this creature, except it's a Bird in addition to its other types and it has flying.
Creature - Bird Bard
Mockingbird (blb) 61
Quantum Misalignment
Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it isn't legendary.
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
Quantum Misalignment (who) 52
Rite of Replication
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
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 (tdc) 165
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Spark Double (rvr) 62

Clone

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Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
Creature - Horror
Consuming Aberration (clb) 840
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 (clb) 724
Hunted Horror
Trample
When this creature enters, target opponent creates two 3/3 green Centaur creature tokens with protection from black.
Creature - Horror
Hunted Horror (clb) 758
Nighthowler
Bestow
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Nighthowler (clb) 764
Sewer Nemesis
As this creature enters, choose a player.
Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard.
Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.
Creature - Horror
Sewer Nemesis (clb) 771
Zellix, Sanity Flayer
Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token.
,
: Target player mills three cards.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Horror
Zellix, Sanity Flayer (clb) 652

Creature

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Brotherhood Regalia
Equipped creature has ward
, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature

Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Brotherhood Regalia (acr) 71
Cloak of Mists
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Enchantment - Aura
Cloak of Mists (plst) GS1-13
Cover of Darkness
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Enchantment
Cover of Darkness (acr) 89
Vashta Nerada
Indestructible
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Horror Alien
Vashta Nerada (who) 73

Grant or have evasion

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Ash Barrens
: Add
.
Basic landcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Land
Ash Barrens (clb) 880
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.
: Add
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (clb) 886
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Creeping Tar Pit
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature. It's still a land. It can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Creeping Tar Pit (clb) 888
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (clb) 891
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (clb) 893
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (clb) 456
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture (fin) 284
Nephalia Drownyard
: Add
.
,
: Target player mills three cards.
Land
Nephalia Drownyard (clb) 905
Otawara, Soaring City
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 414
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (clb) 907
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (clb) 913
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (fra) 189
Soulstone Sanctuary
: Add
.
: This land becomes a 3/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types. It's still a land.
Land
Soulstone Sanctuary (fdn) 133
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (clb) 918
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (clb) 462
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (clb) 920
Temple of Deceit
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (clb) 922

Land

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Leyline of Transformation
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Leyline of Transformation (dsk) 63
Maskwood Nexus
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
,
: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (drc) 132

Make Everything Horrors

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Singularity Rupture
Destroy all creatures, then any number of target players each mill half their library, rounded down.
Sorcery
Singularity Rupture (eoe) 228
Spellskite
: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Spellskite (clb) 873

Mass Disruption

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Bruvac the Grandiloquent
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Bruvac the Grandiloquent (rvr) 35
Fraying Sanity
Enchant player
At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Fraying Sanity (wot) 19
Maddening Cacophony
Kicker

Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.
Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
Mesmeric Orb
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Mindcrank
Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Psychic Corrosion
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.
Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (plst) M19-68
Riverchurn Monument
,
: Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Exhaust —
,
: Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Artifact
Riverchurn Monument (dft) 57
Ruin Crab
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Crab
Ruin Crab (plst) ZNR-75
Sphinx's Tutelage
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Enchantment
Sphinx's Tutelage (spg) 75
The Mindskinner
The Mindskinner can't be blocked.
If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Nightmare
The Mindskinner (dsk) 357

Mill

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Ancient Cellarspawn
Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 16
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (frc) 57
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Sapphire Medallion
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
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
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Sword of the Animist (fic) 362
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (clb) 877
The Water Crystal
Blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Artifact
The Water Crystal (fin) 85
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (clb) 879

Ramp

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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 (soa) 14

Removal

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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
Parasitic Impetus
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Enchantment - Aura
Parasitic Impetus (clb) 140
Shifting Grift
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Exchange control of two target creatures.
+
— Exchange control of two target artifacts.
+
— Exchange control of two target enchantments.
Sorcery
Shifting Grift (otj) 66
Supreme Will
Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
• 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 (j25) 370

Targeted Disruption

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Court of Cunning
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Enchantment
Court of Cunning (cmr) 63
Explorer's Scope
Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Explorer's Scope (cmm) 380
The Weaver King
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever The Weaver King deals combat damage to a player, they mill that many cards. Then for each opponent, put a creature card from that player's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Horror
The Weaver King (mbc) 56

Sideboard

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Call of the Nightwing
Create a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying.
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
Call of the Nightwing (plst) GK1-8
Clutch of the Undercity
Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life.
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
Clutch of the Undercity (rav) 197
Confounding Conundrum
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Confounding Conundrum (znr) 53
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
Drift of Phantasms
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
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.)
Creature - Spirit
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 42
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
Extravagant Replication
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of another target nonland permanent you control.
Enchantment
Extravagant Replication (fdn) 154
Fabricate
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Fabricate (hop) 9
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 (mom) 58
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 (clb) 752
Forger's Foundry
: Add
. When you spend this mana to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 3 or less, you may exile that spell instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves.
,
: You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled with this artifact without paying their mana costs. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Forger's Foundry (otc) 14
Frightcrawler
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.
Creature - Horror
Frightcrawler (ody) 138
Ghoulcaller's Bell
: Each player mills a card.
Artifact
Ghoulcaller's Bell (isd) 224
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
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Helm of the Host (blc) 276
Imperious Mindbreaker
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."
Creature - Human Wizard
Imperious Mindbreaker (voc) 33
Into the Story
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.
Instant
Into the Story (eld) 50
Kitsune's Technique
Sneak
(You may cast this spell for
if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.)
Target opponent mills half their library, rounded up.
Instant
Kitsune's Technique (tmt) 42
Mindwrack Harpy
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player mills three cards.
Creature Enchantment - Harpy
Mindwrack Harpy (cmm) 869
Nanogene Conversion
Choose target creature you control. Each other creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn, except it isn't legendary.
Sorcery
Nanogene Conversion (who) 49
Night Dealings
Whenever a source you control deals damage to another player, put that many theft counters on this enchantment.
, Remove X theft counters from this enchantment: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Enchantment
Night Dealings (chk) 132
One Ring to Rule Them All
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.
Enchantment - Saga
One Ring to Rule Them All (ltr) 102
Phenax, God of Deception
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature.
Creatures you control have "
: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Phenax, God of Deception (plst) BNG-152
Prism Ring
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Prism Ring (ori) 235
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (cmr) 89
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
Sakashima's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target opponent chooses a creature they control. You gain control of it.
• Choose a creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.
Sorcery
Sakashima's Will (cmr) 91
Sepulchral Primordial
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Avatar
Sepulchral Primordial (scd) 106
Sword of Body and Mind
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token and that player mills ten cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Sword of Body and Mind (2xm) 295
Thada Adel, Acquisitor
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Thada Adel, Acquisitor (wwk) 40
The Key to the Vault
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
The Key to the Vault (otj) 54
The Master of Lake-town
Deathtouch
Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
When The Master of Lake-town dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
The Master of Lake-town (hob) 77
Thought Collapse
Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.
Instant
Thought Collapse (plst) RNA-57
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 (otj) 75
Traumatize
Target player mills half their library, rounded down.
Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77
Umbris, Fear Manifest
Umbris gets +1/+1 for each card your opponents own in exile.
Whenever Umbris or another Nightmare or Horror you control enters, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a land card.
Legendary Creature - Horror Nightmare
Umbris, Fear Manifest (voc) 38
Vision Charm
Choose one —
• Target player mills four cards.
• Choose a land type and a basic land type. Each land of the first chosen type becomes the second chosen type until end of turn.
• Target artifact phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Instant
Vision Charm (vis) 49

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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 is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Memory Erosion
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.
Enchantment
Memory Erosion (plst) CM2-45
Roaming Throne
Ward

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Roaming Throne (lci) 258

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Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (tdc) 157
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
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 (tdc) 161
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2.
Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112

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