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Use Zaxara's mana to fuel even larger subsequent spells."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Execution:"},{"insert":" Close the game by casting a massive "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exsanguinate"}},{"insert":" to drain the table, or use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Overwhelming Stampede"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Herald of Secret Streams"}},{"insert":" to make your massive Hydras unblockable for lethal combat damage."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mulligan Priorities:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Keep:"},{"insert":" Hands with at least 3 lands and 1-2 pieces of early ramp (CMC 2 or less) to ensure a Turn 3 Zaxara."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Avoid:"},{"insert":" Hands with multiple high-CMC X-spells but no early ramp, or hands lacking Blue/Green mana sources."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Key Tips:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Zaxara's Trigger:"},{"insert":" Remember that Zaxara triggers on "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"casting"},{"insert":" the spell. 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Commander

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Zaxara, the Exemplary
Deathtouch
: Add two mana of any one color.
Whenever you cast a spell with
in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Creature - Nightmare Hydra
Zaxara, the Exemplary (dmc) 176

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Counters

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Branching Evolution
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.
Enchantment
Branching Evolution (pip) 468
Corpsejack Menace
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Creature - Fungus
Corpsejack Menace (c16) 190
Hungering Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)
Creature - Hydra
Hungering Hydra (m19) 189
Ochre Jelly
Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Split — When this creature dies, if it had two or more +1/+1 counters on it, create a token that's a copy of it at the beginning of the next end step. The token enters with half that many +1/+1 counters on it, rounded down.
Creature - Ooze
Ochre Jelly (afr) 330
Owlin Spiralmancer
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you cast your first spell with
in its mana cost each turn, you may copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Creature - Wizard Bird
Owlin Spiralmancer (soc) 22
Primo, the Unbounded
Trample
Primo enters with twice X +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more creatures you control with base power 0 deal combat damage to a player, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the damage dealt.
Legendary Creature - Wolf Fractal
Primo, the Unbounded (soc) 6
Primordial Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Hydra
Primordial Hydra (soc) 284
Simic Ascendancy
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.
Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (rna) 207
Stonecoil Serpent
Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature Artifact - Snake
Stonecoil Serpent (soc) 356
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
The first spell you cast with
in its mana cost each turn costs
less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Zimone.
Whenever you cast your first spell with
in its mana cost each turn, put two +1/+1 counters on Zimone.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Zimone, Infinite Analyst (soc) 10

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Draw

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Finale of Revelation
Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.
Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (fdn) 589
Garruk's Uprising
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (fdn) 220
Genesis Hydra
When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Plant Hydra
Genesis Hydra (otc) 193
Geometer's Arthropod
Whenever you cast a spell with
in its mana cost, look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature - Crab Fractal
Geometer's Arthropod (sos) 191
Greater Good
Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.
Enchantment
Greater Good (afc) 160
Hydroid Krasis
When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Beast Jellyfish Hydra
Hydroid Krasis (m3c) 266
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
−1: Untap target permanent.
Legendary Planeswalker - Kiora
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (war) 232
Lifeblood Hydra
Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.
Creature - Hydra
Lifeblood Hydra (soc) 274
Mind into Matter
Draw X cards. Then you may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Mind into Matter (sos) 202
Return of the Wildspeaker
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (eld) 172
Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (soa) 34
Terrasymbiosis
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, you may draw that many cards. Do this only once each turn.
Enchantment
Terrasymbiosis (eoe) 210
The Goose Mother
Flying
The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up.
Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Bird Hydra
The Goose Mother (soc) 312

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Finisher

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Combine Chrysalis
Creature tokens you control have flying.
,
, Sacrifice a token: Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Combine Chrysalis (plst) MH2-191
Duskshell Crawler
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Creature - Insect
Duskshell Crawler (j22) 650
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
Herald of Secret Streams
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.
Creature - Warrior Merfolk
Herald of Secret Streams (plst) XLN-59
Intruder Alarm
Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.
Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (tle) 15
Nev, the Practical Dean
Creatures you control with counters on them have trample.
Whenever you cast your first spell with
in its mana cost each turn, put X +1/+1 counters on Nev.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Nev, the Practical Dean (soc) 41
Open into Wonder
X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
Sorcery
Open into Wonder (akh) 64
Unbound Flourishing
Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains
, double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains
, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Enchantment
Unbound Flourishing (soc) 126
Unnatural Growth
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (mid) 206

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge
: Add
.
,
: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Alchemist's Refuge (soc) 360
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (c17) 238
Bonders' Enclave
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Land
Bonders' Enclave (fic) 376
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (sos) 254
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mkm) 285
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (tmc) 69
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (j25) 85
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (soc) 383
Necroblossom Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Necroblossom Snarl (soc) 389
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 (otc) 310
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (c14) 308
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (c19) 270
Secret Tunnel
This land can't be blocked.
: Add
.
,
: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can't be blocked this turn.
Land - Cave
Secret Tunnel (tla) 278
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (dmc) 235
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (eoe) 271
Vineglimmer Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (fic) 440
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (m15) 249

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Protection

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Revitalizing Repast
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
Silkguard
Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control.
Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Instant
Silkguard (soc) 286
Snakeskin Veil
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Snakeskin Veil (tdm) 159
Tyvar's Stand
Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Tyvar's Stand (soc) 291

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Brass Infiniscope
: Add
. When you next cast a spell with
in its mana cost this turn, you draw a card and gain half X life, rounded down.
Artifact
Brass Infiniscope (soc) 51
Devoted Druid
: Add
.
Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.
Creature - Elf Druid
Devoted Druid (plst) SHM-110
Elementalist's Palette
Whenever you cast a spell with
in its mana cost, put two charge counters on this artifact.
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add
for each charge counter on this artifact. Spend this mana only on costs that contain
.
Artifact
Elementalist's Palette (soc) 346
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
Goldvein Hydra
Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.
Creature - Hydra
Goldvein Hydra (soc) 270
Growth Spiral
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Growth Spiral (c20) 216
Gyre Sage
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.)
: Add
for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Elf Druid
Gyre Sage (fic) 306
Incubation Druid
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead.
: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)
Creature - Elf Druid
Incubation Druid (fic) 309
Mana Bloom
This enchantment enters with X charge counters on it.
Remove a charge counter from this enchantment: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has no charge counters on it, return it to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Mana Bloom (rtr) 130
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (ddd) 17
Open the Way
X can't be greater than the number of players in the game.
Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Sorcery
Open the Way (soc) 280
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (dds) 48
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (m3c) 243
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
,
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (m3c) 246
Shared Roots
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Lesson
Shared Roots (soa) 58
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (onc) 140
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (soc) 289

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Removal

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Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (bbd) 190
Kinetic Ooze
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, you draw a card. If X is 10 or more, double the number of +1/+1 counters on any number of other target creatures.
Creature - Ooze
Kinetic Ooze (soc) 39
March of Wretched Sorrow
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs
less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.
Instant
March of Wretched Sorrow (neo) 111
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Profane Command
Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sorcery
Profane Command (hop) 38
Quandrix Charm
Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Target creature has base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.
Instant
Quandrix Charm (sos) 365
Quandrix Command
Choose two —
• Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Instant
Quandrix Command (soc) 325
Rampaging Yao Guai
Vigilance, trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature enters, destroy any number of target artifacts and/or enchantments with total mana value X or less.
Creature - Bear Mutant
Rampaging Yao Guai (pip) 82
Retribution of the Ancients
, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Enchantment
Retribution of the Ancients (ktk) 85
Voracious Hydra
Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• This creature fights target creature you don't control.
Creature - Hydra
Voracious Hydra (tmc) 54

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Altered Ego
This spell can't be countered.
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Altered Ego (inr) 228
Animist's Awakening
Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.
Sorcery
Animist's Awakening (soc) 261
Biomass Mutation
Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.
Instant
Biomass Mutation (plst) GTC-213
Black Sun's Zenith
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Blue Sun's Zenith
Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (mbs) 20
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (plst) C18-138
Curse of the Swine
Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.
Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (soc) 192
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (voc) 126
Decisive Denial
Choose one —
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Decisive Denial (otp) 42
Disciple of Freyalise
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Creature - Elf Druid
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Eureka Moment
Draw two cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Eureka Moment (stx) 184
Even the Score
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent has drawn four or more cards this turn.
Draw X cards.
Instant
Even the Score (snc) 42
Evolution Witness
: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Elf Shaman Mutant
Evolution Witness (mh3) 151
Explore
You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Explore (ncc) 289
Fanatic of Rhonas
: Add
.
Ferocious —
: Add
. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Druid Snake
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
Final Act
Choose one or more —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
• Destroy all battles.
• Exile all graveyards.
• Each opponent loses all counters.
Sorcery
Final Act (m3c) 104
Forgotten Ancient
Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.
Creature - Elemental
Forgotten Ancient (moc) 297
Fractal Harness
When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it and attach this Equipment to it.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Fractal Harness (soc) 268
Gadwick, the Wizened
When Gadwick enters, draw X cards.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gadwick, the Wizened (peld) 48p
Hunter's Insight
Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.
Instant
Hunter's Insight (cmm) 296
Kalonian Hydra
Trample
This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Creature - Hydra
Kalonian Hydra (blc) 226
Kami of Whispered Hopes
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Spirit
Kami of Whispered Hopes (soc) 273
Kruphix, God of Horizons
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green and blue is less than seven, Kruphix isn't a creature.
You have no maximum hand size.
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Kruphix, God of Horizons (jou) 152
Lattice Library
This enchantment enters with X study counters on it.
When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast your first spell with
in its mana cost each turn, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of study counters on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Lattice Library (soc) 40
Loxodon Warhammer
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Loxodon Warhammer (c16) 261
Mana Reflection
If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces twice as much of that mana instead.
Enchantment
Mana Reflection (m3c) 237
Mass Manipulation
Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.
Sorcery
Mass Manipulation (rna) 42
Mathemagics
Target player draws 2ˣ cards. (2⁰ = 1, 2¹ = 2, 2² = 4, 2³ = 8, 2⁴ = 16, 2⁵ = 32, and so on.)
Sorcery
Mathemagics (sos) 58
Mists of Lórien
Replicate
(When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Return target nonland permanent and each other nonland permanent with the same mana value as that permanent to their owners' hands.
Sorcery
Mists of Lórien (ltc) 501
Momentous Fall
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.
Instant
Momentous Fall (jmp) 411
Nexos
Strategic Coordinator — Basic lands you control have "
: Add
. Spend this mana only on costs that contain
."
Creature - Human Advisor Tyranid
Nexos (40k) 95
O'aka, Traveling Merchant
, Remove a counter from a nonland permanent you control: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Citizen
O'aka, Traveling Merchant (fic) 39
Overwhelming Stampede
Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (c14) 208
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Legendary Artifact
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire (soc) 281
Pridemalkin
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Creature - Cat
Pridemalkin (j25) 700
Pull from Tomorrow
Draw X cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (blc) 172
Rishkar's Expertise
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (aer) 123
Runadi, Behemoth Caller
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, that creature enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its mana value minus 4.
Creatures you control with three or more +1/+1 counters on them have haste.
: Add
.
Legendary Creature - Shaman Cat
Runadi, Behemoth Caller (j22) 44
Slip Out the Back
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Instant
Slip Out the Back (clu) 99
Sphere Grid
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
Unlock Ability — Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have reach and trample.
Enchantment
Sphere Grid (fic) 123
Steelbane Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Hydra Turtle
Steelbane Hydra (tmc) 52
Stroke of Genius
Target player draws X cards.
Instant
Stroke of Genius (c15) 108
Thassa's Intervention
Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice
.
Instant
Thassa's Intervention (pthb) 72p
Tuskguard Captain
Outlast
(
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.
Creature - Human Warrior
Tuskguard Captain (cmm) 328
Villainous Wealth
Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.
Sorcery
Villainous Wealth (otc) 249
Vorel of the Hull Clade
,
: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.
Legendary Creature - Human Merfolk
Vorel of the Hull Clade (dgm) 115
Wave Goodbye
Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.
Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (tmc) 46
Wildest Dreams
Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Wildest Dreams.
Sorcery
Wildest Dreams (kld) 174
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control.
,
: Double the number of each kind of counter on up to two target creatures and/or artifacts you control.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor (pfdn) 126p
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus
Reach
At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.
, Sacrifice two other creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Zopandrel. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus (pone) 195p

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