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Engines"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mesmeric Orb"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"One of the strongest cards in the deck.\nNormally Orb mills everyone equally.\nIn this deck:\nIt fills your graveyard for Body Double."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"It fuels future recursion."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"It pressures opponents."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"It works with Retreat to Coralhelm untap loops."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The longer Orb remains in play, the more dangerous your board becomes.\nPlanetarium of Wan Shi Tong"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Provides long-game card advantage while fitting perfectly into the deck's \"strange value engine\" identity.\nNautiloid Ship"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Functions as both graveyard hate and theft.\nSince many 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Mixture"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Clone"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Value Hand"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Island"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Island"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Island"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rhystic Study"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Wayfarer's Bauble"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Fabricate"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mirror Image"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mill Hand"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Island"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Island"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Hedron Crab"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Terrain Generator"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Retreat to Coralhelm"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Dizzy Spell"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Swan Song"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nHow the Deck Actually Wins"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nMost games follow this pattern:\nEarly Game"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ramp, draw cards, and appear harmless.\nMid Game"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Start creating Moons and assembling Crab engines.\nLate Game"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"One of three things happens:\nMultiple Moon Crabs mill everyone out."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Bruvac + Maddening Cacophony ends the game instantly."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Hullbreaker Horror and overwhelming value bury the table while your land engines continue growing."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":"The deck thrives on confusion. Opponents spend most of the game trying to figure out what your lands are doing. By the time they understand, their libraries are usually disappearing.\n"}]}
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Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand. If this spell was kicked, put two of those cards into your hand instead. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand. If this spell was kicked, put two of those cards into your hand instead. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant
Jace Reawakened
You can't cast Jace Reawakened during your first, second, or third turns of the game.
+1: Draw a card, then discard a card.
+1: You may exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your hand. If you do, it becomes plotted.
−6: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+1: Draw a card, then discard a card.
+1: You may exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your hand. If you do, it becomes plotted.
−6: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Draw
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Mill
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Arbiter of the Ideal
Flying
Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.
Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.
Creature - Sphinx
Defiler of Dreams
Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Mystic Reflection
Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature.
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.)
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.)
Instant
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 .
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Enchantment
Naga Fleshcrafter
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.
Renew — , Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Renew — , Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Shapeshifter Snake
Nezahal, Primal Tide
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Omni-Changeling
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Creature - Shapeshifter
River Kelpie
Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Creature - Beast
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.)
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'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.
• 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
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
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
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