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Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. Until end of turn, that player can't cast spells, you may look at the top card of their library any time, you may play the top card of their library, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells this way.
Legendary Creature - Beholder
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin (sld) 1785

Commander

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Aboleth Spawn
Flash
Ward

Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Creature - Horror Fish
Aboleth Spawn (clb) 662
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) 371
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Hexproof
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind (gk1) 16
Twincast
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Instant
Twincast (m10) 78

Copy

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Last Word
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Last Word (dst) 23
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

Counters

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Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost
less to cast.
Whenever one or more opponents lose life, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Do this only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Elder
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat (fic) 81

Creature

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92

Drain

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Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (plst) PCA-82
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (sld) 1162
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Deathtouch
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Aetherborn
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (cmm) 162
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

Draw

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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 (ori) 61

Enchantment

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Worst Fears
You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)
Sorcery
Worst Fears (mb2) 52

Finisher

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Clearwater Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (who) 264
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (mkc) 257
Detection Tower
: Add
.
,
: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
Land
Detection Tower (m19) 249
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (2x2) 404
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tsp) 289
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (shm) 287
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (kld) 254
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (thb) 251
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (jmp) 50
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (znr) 269
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (znr) 270
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (znr) 271
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (one) 263
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (one) 268
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (lci) 395
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (fdn) 284
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (eoe) 263
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (eoe) 270
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (ltc) 335
Sunken Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sunken Ruins (fic) 430
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (10e) 374
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (kld) 258
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sld) 557
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (dmu) 279
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (one) 269
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (pss4) 3
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mh3) 306
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (fin) 300
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (fin) 301
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (fin) 302
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303
Vesuva
You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.
Land
Vesuva (m3c) 404

Land

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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 290

Lifegain

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Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
+2: Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library.
−X: Put a creature card with mana value X exiled with Ashiok onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a Nightmare in addition to its other types.
−10: Exile all cards from all opponents' hands and graveyards.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver (ths) 188
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for
as a sorcery.)
When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Demon Kraken
Gyruda, Doom of Depths (mul) 172

Mill

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Dark Dabbling
Regenerate target creature. Draw a card. (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.
Instant
Dark Dabbling (ori) 89
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 - Wizard Faerie
High Fae Trickster (fdn) 40
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (tle) 317

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (fic) 332

Rainbow Artifact

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Cunning Nightbonder
Flash
Spells with flash you cast cost
less to cast and can't be countered.
Creature - Human Rogue
Cunning Nightbonder (iko) 219
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mmq) 129
Decanter of Endless Water
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (rav) 260
Doubling Cube
,
: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.
Artifact
Doubling Cube (plst) 10E-321
Drain Power
Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.
Sorcery
Drain Power (5ed) 82
Reset
Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn after their upkeep step.
Untap all lands you control.
Instant
Reset (mb2) 170
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313
Wizards of Thay
Myriad (Whenever this creature 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.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Creature - Human Wizard
Wizards of Thay (clb) 105

Ramp

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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 (uma) 71
Will of the Abzan
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Will of the Abzan (tdc) 31

Recursion

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Come Back Wrong
Destroy target creature. If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
Sorcery
Come Back Wrong (dsk) 86
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
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 (ima) 48
Delay
Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
Instant
Delay (sld) 1788
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
Disallow
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
Fell
Destroy target creature.
Sorcery
Fell (blb) 95
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 (j16) 2
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 (tdc) 92
Rewind
Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.
Instant
Rewind (9ed) 94
Royal Assassin
: Destroy target tapped creature.
Creature - Human Assassin
Royal Assassin (acr) 93
Sorin Markov
+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
Sorin Markov (plst) M12-109
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
Stifle
Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Instant
Stifle (sld) 1787

Removal

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Opposition Agent
Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.
Creature - Human Rogue
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141

Stax

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Extract Brain
Target opponent chooses X cards from their hand. Look at those cards. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Extract Brain (afc) 46
Gríma, Saruman's Footman
Gríma can't be blocked.
Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Gríma, Saruman's Footman (ltc) 464
Intellect Devourer
Devour Intellect — When this creature enters, each opponent exiles a card from their hand until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Body Thief — You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Creature - Horror
Intellect Devourer (clb) 132
Memory Plunder
You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Memory Plunder (clb) 849
Mnemonic Betrayal
Exile all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards.
Exile Mnemonic Betrayal.
Sorcery
Mnemonic Betrayal (grn) 189
Nightveil Specter
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature.
Creature - Specter
Nightveil Specter (gtc) 222
Outrageous Robbery
Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast it.
Instant
Outrageous Robbery (mkm) 97
Psychic Intrusion
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Sorcery
Psychic Intrusion (ths) 200
Siphon Insight
Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Flashback
Instant
Siphon Insight (dbl) 241
Tinybones, the Pickpocket
Deathtouch
Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Tinybones, the Pickpocket (potj) 109p

Theft

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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) DDC-49
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (m10) 91
Liliana Vess
+1: Target player discards a card.
−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Liliana Vess (m15) 103
Praetor's Grasp
Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Sorcery
Praetor's Grasp (sld) 1861

Tutor

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Dramatic Reversal
Untap all nonland permanents you control.
Instant
Dramatic Reversal (p30a) 24

Untap

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Deck Info

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