Arcane Encyclopedia

The Biblioplex

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.

Geist of the Archives

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Barrin, Tolarian Archmage

When Barrin enters, return up to one other target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent was put into your hand from the battlefield this turn, draw a card.

Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Cogwork Librarian

Draft this card face up.
As you draft a card, you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put this card into that booster pack.

Learn from the Past

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.

Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher

Vigilance
{T}: Add an amount of {C} equal to Vhal's toughness. This mana can't be spent to cast spells from your hand.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Living Lectern

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Create a Sorcerer Role token attached to up to one other target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")

Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Flash of Insight

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 any order.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)

Soldevi Sage

{T}, Sacrifice two lands: Draw three cards, then discard one of them.

Augury Owl

Flying
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Arcane Investigator

Search the Room — {5}{U}: Roll a d20.
1—9 | Draw a card.
10—20 | Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Spellbook

Rousing Read

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Tunnel Vision

Choose a card name. Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until a card with that name is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into their graveyard and puts the card with the chosen name on top of their library. Otherwise, the player shuffles.

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.

Candlekeep Sage

Commander creatures you own have "When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, draw a card."

Archive Haunt

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
If Archive Haunt would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Overwhelmed Archivist

When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Disturb {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt

Vantress Visions

Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Virtue of Knowledge

If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Automatic Librarian

When this creature enters, 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.)

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam

{1}{U}: Return target artifact you control to its owner's hand.
{3}, {T}: Copy target artifact spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Vexing Puzzlebox

Whenever you roll one or more dice, put a number of charge counters on this artifact equal to the result.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Roll a d20.
{T}, Remove 100 charge counters from this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Secrets of the Key

Investigate. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, investigate twice instead. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Flashback {3}{U}

Archivist

Sage of Lat-Nam

Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact.
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Hard Cover

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has "{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card."

Academy Loremaster

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost {2} more to cast.

Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Soldevi Machinist

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifacts.

Lore Seeker

Reveal this card as you draft it. After you draft this card, you may add a booster pack to the draft. (Your next pick is from that booster pack. Pass it to the next player and it's drafted this draft round.)

Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Wizard's Spellbook

{T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery.
1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy.
10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost.
20 | Copy each card exiled with this artifact. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Book of Rass

Galvanic Key

Hapless Researcher

Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Ancestral Memories

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
{T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Mystery Key

When equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice this Equipment. If you do, draw three cards.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Pieces of the Puzzle

Reveal the top five cards of your library. Put up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Firmament Sage

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, draw a card.

Voltaic Key

Inspiration

Skeleton Key

Equipped creature has skulk. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {2}

Arcane Endeavor

Roll two d8 and choose one result. Draw cards equal to that result. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the other result from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Flash Counter

Index

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Emmessi Tome

{5}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Hermetic Study

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

Island

Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Furtive Analyst

Vigilance
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Careful Study

Divination

Moonfolk Puzzlemaker

Flying
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, scry 1.

Latch Seeker

Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Petty Theft

Return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Brazen Borrower

Flash
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft

Sage Owl

Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

+1: Scry 1, then draw a card.
−2: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."

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.)

Voracious Reader

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Curious Homunculus

{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform this creature.

Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Catalog

Occult Epiphany

Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card type among cards discarded this way.

Alaundo the Seer

{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand and put a number of time counters on it equal to its mana value. It gains "When the last time counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you cast a creature spell this way, it gains haste until end of turn." Then remove a time counter from each other card you own in exile.

Bury in Books

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.

Cogwork Archivist

Reach
{2}, {T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Archive Dragon

Flying
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
When this creature enters, scry 2.

Ancestral Knowledge

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.)
When this enchantment enters, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.

Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Focus Beam — At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a d4. Scry X, where X is the result.
Perfect Illumination — Whenever you roll a die's highest natural result, draw a card.

Keeper of Keys

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're the monarch, creatures you control can't be blocked this turn.

Artificer's Assistant

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Archivist of Gondor

When your commander deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card.

Call to Mind

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Glassblower's Puzzleknot

When this artifact enters, scry 2, then you get {E}{E}. (You get two energy counters. To 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.)
{2}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Scry 2, then you get {E}{E}.

Chronomaton

{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Pore Over the Pages

Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Jalum Tome

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Investigator's Journal

This artifact enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls.
{2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.