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Commander

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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 (sch) 20

Commander

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"Counterspell"

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Commandeer
You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)
Instant
Commandeer (cmm) 80
Commit
Put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top.
Instant
Commit // Memory (lcc) 147
Divert
Change the target of target spell with a single target unless that spell's controller pays
.
Instant
Divert (ody) 82
Divide by Zero
Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Instant
Divide by Zero (stx) 41
Gale's Redirection
Exile target spell, then roll a d20 and add that spell's mana value.
1—14 | You may cast 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.
15+ | You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled.
Instant
Gale's Redirection (clb) 73
Insidious Will
Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• You may choose new targets for target spell.
• Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Instant
Insidious Will (kld) 52
Mindbreak Trap
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.
Instant - Trap
Mindbreak Trap (zen) 57
Misdirection
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
Instant
Misdirection (ddt) 15
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
Press the Enemy
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Press the Enemy (ltr) 65
Redirect
You may choose new targets for target spell.
Instant
Redirect (m13) 64
Sink into Stupor
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Sudden Setback
The owner of target spell or nonland permanent puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Instant
Sudden Setback (mkm) 72
Sudden Substitution
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.
Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Summary Dismissal
Exile all other spells and counter all abilities.
Instant
Summary Dismissal (inr) 88
Time Stop
End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities, including this spell. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage heals and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
Instant
Time Stop (fdn) 166
Unsubstantiate
Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.
Instant
Unsubstantiate (pemn) 79

"Counterspell"

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Basics

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Island
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.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (ecl) 275

Basics

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Creature

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Hydroelectric Specimen
Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.
Creature - Weird
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Murktide Regent
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each instant and sorcery card exiled with it.
Whenever an instant or sorcery card leaves your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Dragon
Murktide Regent (mh2) 52

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Draw

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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
Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (mb2) 25
Curate
Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Curate (mkc) 99
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Dig Through Time (soc) 195
Fact or Fiction
Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (cmm) 91
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (sld) 1576
Laboratory Drudge
At the beginning of each end step, draw a card if you've cast a spell from a graveyard or activated an ability of a card in a graveyard this turn.
Creature - Horror Zombie
Laboratory Drudge (cmr) 78
Neerdiv, Devious Diver
Whenever Neerdiv becomes tapped, target player mills cards equal to its power.
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard or activate an ability of a card in your graveyard, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Neerdiv.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Neerdiv, Devious Diver (j25) 36
Plunder the Trollshaws
Draw a card. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, draw two cards instead.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Plunder the Trollshaws (hob) 51
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.)
Creature - Beast
River Kelpie (tdc) 166
Secrets of the Dead
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (c19) 95
Surge of Brilliance
Paradox — Draw a card for each spell you've cast this turn from anywhere other than your hand.
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
Surge of Brilliance (who) 57

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Exile-Cheating

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Bilbo, Luckwearer
Bilbo can't be blocked.
Whenever Bilbo deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot (hob) 218
Brazen Borrower
Flash
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft (sld) 234
Dirgur Island Dragon
Flying
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature - Dragon
Dirgur Island Dragon // Skimming Strike (tdm) 40
Hypnotic Sprite
Flying
Creature - Faerie
Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare (eld) 49
Inspiring Refrain
Draw two cards. Exile Inspiring Refrain with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Inspiring Refrain (c21) 27
Marang River Regent
Flying
When this creature enters, return up to two other target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Creature - Dragon
Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch (tdm) 51
Merfolk Secretkeeper
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper (eld) 284
Most Decrepit Old Bird
Flying
Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Bird
Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets (hob) 49
Picklock Prankster
Flying, vigilance
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae (woe) 64
Reality Strobe
Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Reality Strobe with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Reality Strobe (fut) 43
Taigam, Master Opportunist
Flurry — Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, then exile the spell you cast with four time counters on it. 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.)
Legendary Creature - Human Monk
Taigam, Master Opportunist (tdm) 60

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Land

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Agna Qel'a
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Land
Agna Qel'a (tla) 387
Cephalid Coliseum
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cephalid Coliseum (tdc) 349
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture (fin) 311
Sunken Palace
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add
. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)
Land - Cave
Sunken Palace (m3c) 81

Land

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Mill

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Brain Freeze
Target player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Instant
Brain Freeze (scg) 29
Drowned Secrets
Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player mills two cards.
Enchantment
Drowned Secrets (grn) 39
Mesmeric Orb
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Otherworldly Gaze
Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (dsc) 122
Search for Azcanta
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Legendary Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74
Shadow Kin
Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
Thought Scour
Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.
Instant
Thought Scour (2x2) 65

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Planeswalker

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Chandra, Chill of Compliance
+1: Surveil 1. If you put a noncreature, nonland card into your graveyard this way, put that card into your hand.
+1: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell.
−X: Tap target artifact or creature. Put X stun counters on it.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, draw a card."
Legendary Planeswalker - Chandra
Chandra, Chill of Compliance (fra) 297

Planeswalker

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (drc) 55
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
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 (mbc) 77

Protection

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Ramp

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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
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Bilbo, Thief in the Night
Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost
less to cast.
Whenever Bilbo attacks, you may cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If an instant or sorcery spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Bilbo, Thief in the Night (hob) 219
Deranged Assistant
, Mill a card: Add
. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Deranged Assistant (2x2) 45
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs
(or
) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Fish
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea (blb) 288
Patrician Geist
Flying
Other Spirits you control get +1/+1.
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost
less to cast.
Creature - Knight Spirit
Patrician Geist (mid) 69
Sage of the Beyond
Flying
Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost
less to cast.
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.)
Creature - Spirit Giant
Sage of the Beyond (otc) 111
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pf26) 1

Ramp

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Recursion

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Demilich
This spell costs
less to cast for each instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn.
Whenever this creature attacks, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.
You may cast this card from your graveyard by exiling four instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard in addition to paying its other costs.
Creature - Wizard Skeleton
Demilich (afr) 53
Mission Briefing
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Instant
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Reenact the Crime
Exile target nonland card in a graveyard that was put there from anywhere this turn. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Reenact the Crime (mkm) 297
Skyway Robber
Flying
Escape—
, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell from among cards exiled with this creature without paying its mana cost."
Creature - Bird Rogue
Skyway Robber (ncc) 31
Spellweaver Volute
Enchant instant card in a graveyard
Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach this Aura to another instant card in a graveyard.
Enchantment - Aura
Spellweaver Volute (fut) 59

Recursion

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Removal

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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

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Sorcery

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Mnemonic Deluge
Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.
Sorcery
Mnemonic Deluge (cmr) 82
See the Truth
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.
Sorcery
See the Truth (m21) 69
Set Adrift
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.
Sorcery
Set Adrift (ktk) 54
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (soc) 205

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Tokens

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Grandmother Goby
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell. Create a number of 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Grandmother Goby (mbc) 9
Ominous Roost
When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and "This token can block only creatures with flying."
Enchantment
Ominous Roost (dbl) 65

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Maybeboard

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Abhorrent Oculus
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard.
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Creature - Eye
Abhorrent Oculus (dsk) 42
Back from the Brink
Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Enchantment
Back from the Brink (isd) 44
Conspiracy Unraveler
Flying
You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.)
Creature - Sphinx Detective
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
Discontinuity
During your turn, this spell costs
less to cast.
End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
Instant
Discontinuity (m21) 48
Dream Eater
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Creature - Nightmare Sphinx
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
Drown in Dreams
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target player draws X cards.
• Target player mills twice X cards.
Instant
Drown in Dreams (mic) 13
Emeritus of Ideation
Flying, ward

This creature enters prepared.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile eight cards from your graveyard. If you do, this creature becomes prepared.
Creature - Human Wizard
Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall (sos) 45
Ertai's Meddling
X can't be 0.
Target spell's controller exiles it with X delay counters on it.
At the beginning of each of that player's upkeeps, if that card is exiled, remove a delay counter from it. If the card has no delay counters on it, the player puts it onto the stack as a copy of the original spell.
Instant
Ertai's Meddling (tmp) 61
Ethereal Forager
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Elemental Whale
Ethereal Forager (c20) 34
High Tide
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Horned Loch-Whale
Flash
Ward

This creature enters tapped unless it's your turn.
Creature - Whale
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Hurkyl's Final Meditation
During turns other than yours, this spell costs
more to cast.
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
Instant
Hurkyl's Final Meditation (bro) 52
Meddle
If target spell has only one target and that target is a creature, change that spell's target to another creature.
Instant
Meddle (ons) 92
Osgood, Operation Double
When you cast this spell, create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary.
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact.
Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legendary Creature - Human Shapeshifter Alien
Osgood, Operation Double (who) 191
Retraced Image
Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.
Sorcery
Retraced Image (tor) 46
Temporal Trespass
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.
Sorcery
Temporal Trespass (frf) 55
Venser, Shaper Savant
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Venser, Shaper Savant (2x2) 66

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Tokens & Extras

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Bird
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
Creature Token - Bird
Bird (tmid) 3
Merfolk
Creature Token - Merfolk
Merfolk (tlcc) 3
Treasure
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact Token - Treasure
Treasure (thob) 12

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