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.

Sphere of Annihilation

Sphere of Annihilation enters with X void counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile Sphere of Annihilation, all creatures and planeswalkers with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it, and all creature and planeswalker cards in graveyards with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it.

Astral Cornucopia

Astral Cornucopia enters with X charge counters on it.
{T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on Astral Cornucopia.

Part Water

X target creatures gain islandwalk until end of turn. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Change of Plans

Each of X target creatures you control connive. You may have any number of them phase out. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Gridlock

Mind Shatter

Target player discards X cards at random.

Commander's Insight

Target player draws X cards plus an additional card for each time they've cast a commander from the command zone this game.

Battle at the Bridge

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

Disembowel

Destroy target creature with mana value X.

Chimeric Mass

Chimeric Mass enters with X charge counters on it.
{1}: Until end of turn, Chimeric Mass becomes a Construct artifact creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of charge counters on it."

Belbe's Armor

{X}, {T}: Target creature gets -X/+X until end of turn.

Heroes' Podium

Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other legendary creature you control.
{X}, {T}: Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Increasing Confusion

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.
Flashback {X}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Halo Forager

Flying
When Halo Forager enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value X from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Transmute Artifact

Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay {X}, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.

War Tax

{X}{U}: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays {X} for each attacking creature they control.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Briber's Purse

Briber's Purse enters with X gem counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove a gem counter from Briber's Purse: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Runed Arch

Runed Arch enters tapped.
{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Runed Arch: X target creatures with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Even the Score

This spell costs {U}{U}{U} less to cast if an opponent has drawn four or more cards this turn.
Draw X cards.

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Stroke of Genius

Isareth the Awakener

Deathtouch
Whenever Isareth the Awakener attacks, you may pay {X}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Silver Scrutiny

You may cast Silver Scrutiny as though it had flash if X is 3 or less.
Draw X cards.

The Mana Rig

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
{X}{X}{X}, {T}: 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.

Spell Burst

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell with mana value X.

Snake Basket

{X}, Sacrifice Snake Basket: Create X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Activate only as a sorcery.

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Prototype Portal

Imprint — When Prototype Portal enters, you may exile an artifact card from your hand.
{X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Hollow Specter

Flying
Whenever Hollow Specter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {X}. If you do, that player reveals X cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Talon of Pain

Whenever a source you control other than Talon of Pain deals damage to an opponent, put a charge counter on Talon of Pain.
{X}, {T}, Remove X charge counters from Talon of Pain: It deals X damage to any target.

Entrancing Melody

Gain control of target creature with mana value X.

Abandon Hope

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Look at target opponent's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

Dominate

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less.

Orochi Hatchery

Orochi Hatchery enters with X charge counters on it.
{5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each charge counter on Orochi Hatchery.

Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

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.

Empty the Pits

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Puffer Extract

{X}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Sigil of Distinction

Sigil of Distinction enters with X charge counters on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.
Equip—Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

Spell Blast

Counter target spell with mana value X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is {3}{U}{U}, X is 5.)

Synod Artificer

{X}, {T}: Tap X target noncreature artifacts.
{X}, {T}: Untap X target noncreature artifacts.

Mishra's Helix

Spoils of War

X is the number of artifact and/or creature cards in an opponent's graveyard as you cast this spell.
Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

Death Wind

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Recall

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Maga, Traitor to Mortals

Maga, Traitor to Mortals enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Maga enters, target player loses life equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Confront the Past

Choose one —
• Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Treasure Vault: Create X Treasure tokens.

Nebuchadnezzar

{X}, {T}: Choose a card name. Target opponent reveals X cards at random from their hand. Then that player discards all cards with that name revealed this way. Activate only during your turn.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Bane of the Living

Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Bane of the Living is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Clockwork Swarm

Clockwork Swarm enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
Clockwork Swarm can't be blocked by Walls.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Swarm attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Swarm. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Swarm to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.

Plant Tadpoles

Tap X target creatures. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Illithid Harvester

Ceremorphosis — When Illithid Harvester enters, turn any number of target tapped nontoken creatures face down. They're 2/2 Horror creatures.

Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles

Prosperity

Sands of Delirium

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

Transcendent Message

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw X cards.

Olag, Ludevic's Hubris

As this creature transforms into Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, it becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with it, except its name is Olag, Ludevic's Hubris, it's 4/4, and it's a legendary blue and black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Olag equal to the number of creature cards exiled with it.

Ludevic, Necrogenius

Whenever Ludevic, Necrogenius enters or attacks, mill a card.
{X}{U}{U}{B}{B}, Exile X creature cards from your graveyard: Transform Ludevic. X can't be 0. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ludevic, Necrogenius // Olag, Ludevic's Hubris

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Elite Arcanist

When Elite Arcanist enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.
{X}, {T}: Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Ghost-Lit Drifter

Flying
{2}{U}: Another target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Channel — {X}{U}, Discard Ghost-Lit Drifter: X target creatures gain flying until end of turn.

Terisiare's Devastation

You lose X life and create X tapped Powerstone tokens. Then all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control. (The tokens are artifacts with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Steel Hellkite

Flying
{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Sickening Shoal

You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Extraordinary Journey

When Extraordinary Journey enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Elementalist's Palette

Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, put two charge counters on Elementalist's Palette.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Elementalist's Palette. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Empty the Laboratory

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When Thieving Skydiver enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.

Soul Burn

Spend only black and/or red mana on X.
Soul Burn deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more than the amount of {B} spent on X, the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Bargaining Table

{X}, {T}: Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Ventifact Bottle

{X}{1}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle. Activate only as a sorcery.
At the beginning of your first main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add {C} for each charge counter removed this way.

Malicious Advice

Tap X target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. You lose X life.

Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn.
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Fascination

Choose one —
• Each player draws X cards.
• Each player mills X cards.

Greel, Mind Raker

{X}{B}, {T}, Discard two cards: Target player discards X cards at random.

Entrancing Lyre

You may choose not to untap Entrancing Lyre during your untap step.
{X}, {T}: Tap target creature with power X or less. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Entrancing Lyre remains tapped.

Clown Car

When Clown Car enters, roll X six-sided dice. For each odd result, create a 1/1 white Clown Robot artifact creature token. For each even result, put a +1/+1 counter on Clown Car.
Crew 2

Word of Binding

Banshee

{X}, {T}: Banshee deals half X damage, rounded down, to any target, and half X damage, rounded up, to you.

Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. 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.)

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.

Faerie Fencing

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. That creature gets an additional -3/-3 until end of turn if you controlled a Faerie as you cast this spell.

Helm of Obedience

{X}, {T}: Target opponent mills a card, then repeats this process until a creature card or X cards have been put into their graveyard this way, whichever comes first. If one or more creature cards were put into that graveyard this way, sacrifice Helm of Obedience and put one of them onto the battlefield under your control. X can't be 0.

Diviner's Portent

Roll a d20 and add the number of cards in your hand.
1—14 | Draw X cards.
15+ | Scry X, then draw X cards.

Aladdin's Lamp

{X}, {T}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size.
{X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards.
{2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Linessa, Zephyr Mage

{X}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target creature with mana value X to its owner's hand.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Linessa, Zephyr Mage: Target player returns a creature they control to its owner's hand, then repeats this process for an artifact, an enchantment, and a land.

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 {X}.

Frankenstein's Monster

As Frankenstein's Monster enters, exile X creature cards from your graveyard. If you can't, put Frankenstein's Monster into its owner's graveyard instead of onto the battlefield. For each creature card exiled this way, Frankenstein's Monster enters with a +2/+0, +1/+1, or +0/+2 counter on it.

Selective Snare

Return X target creatures of the creature type of your choice to their owner's hand.

Clockwork Avian

Flying
Clockwork Avian enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.

Multiple Choice

If X is 1, scry 1, then draw a card.
If X is 2, you may choose a player. They return a creature they control to its owner's hand.
If X is 3, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
If X is 4 or more, do all of the above.

Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Engineered Explosives

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
{2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.