MeganeSensei
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Commander
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Commander
Commander
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Counters
Counters
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Doubler
Jaya's Phoenix
Flying, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, copy the next loyalty ability you activate this turn when you activate it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Whenever you cast a planeswalker spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, copy the next loyalty ability you activate this turn when you activate it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Whenever you cast a planeswalker spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Phoenix
The Chain Veil
At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life.
, : For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.
, : For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.
Legendary Artifact
Urza Assembles the Titans
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Scry 4, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a planeswalker card is revealed this way, put it into your hand.
II — You may put a planeswalker card with mana value 6 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
III — You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice this turn rather than only once.
I — Scry 4, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a planeswalker card is revealed this way, put it into your hand.
II — You may put a planeswalker card with mana value 6 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
III — You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice this turn rather than only once.
Enchantment - Saga
Doubler
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Draw
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Ketramose, the New Dawn
Menace, lifelink, indestructible
Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Ketramose can't attack or block unless there are seven or more cards in exile.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from graveyards and/or the battlefield during your turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - God
Plunge into Darkness
Choose one —
• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
• Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
• Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Instant
Preacher of the Schism
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Sin Prodder
Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
Creature - Devil
Twilight Prophet
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Draw
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Evasion
Detective's Phoenix
Bestow—, Collect evidence 6. (To pay this bestow cost, pay and exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Flying, haste
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste.
You may cast this card from your graveyard using its bestow ability.
Flying, haste
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste.
You may cast this card from your graveyard using its bestow ability.
Creature Enchantment - Phoenix
Evasion
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Exile
Aurelia's Vindicator
Flying, lifelink, ward
Disguise
When this creature is turned face up, exile up to X other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.
Disguise
When this creature is turned face up, exile up to X other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.
Creature - Angel
Exile
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Land
Voldaren Estate
: Add .
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Vampire spell.
, : Create a Blood token. This ability costs less to activate for each Vampire you control. (It's an artifact with ", , Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Vampire spell.
, : Create a Blood token. This ability costs less to activate for each Vampire you control. (It's an artifact with ", , Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Land
Land
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Lifegain
Bronzebeak Foragers
When this creature enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.
: Put target card with mana value X exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard. You gain X life.
: Put target card with mana value X exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard. You gain X life.
Creature - Dinosaur
Lifegain
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Pay Life
Bolas's Citadel
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Glass-Cast Heart
Whenever one or more Vampires you control attack, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with ", , Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, , Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
, , Sacrifice this artifact and thirteen Blood tokens: Each opponent loses 13 life and you gain 13 life.
, , Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
, , Sacrifice this artifact and thirteen Blood tokens: Each opponent loses 13 life and you gain 13 life.
Artifact
Pay Life
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Protection
Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Removal
Archangel of Wrath
Kicker and/or (You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)
Flying, lifelink
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, it deals 2 damage to any target.
When this creature enters, if it was kicked twice, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Flying, lifelink
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, it deals 2 damage to any target.
When this creature enters, if it was kicked twice, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Creature - Angel
Transforming Flourish
Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.)
Destroy target artifact or creature you don't control. If that permanent is destroyed this way, its controller exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then they may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Destroy target artifact or creature you don't control. If that permanent is destroyed this way, its controller exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then they may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Removal
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Tutor
Tutor
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Wincon
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator
If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok
Wincon
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Maybeboard
Deadly Cover-Up
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.
Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
Sorcery
Dihada, Binder of Wills
+2: Up to one target legendary creature gains vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible until your next turn.
−3: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your graveyard this way.
−11: Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
Dihada, Binder of Wills can be your commander.
−3: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your graveyard this way.
−11: Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
Dihada, Binder of Wills can be your commander.
Legendary Planeswalker - Dihada
Elenda, Saint of Dusk
Lifelink, hexproof from instants
As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.
As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.
Legendary Creature - Knight Vampire
Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast
+1: Exile the top three cards of your library. Creature cards exiled this way gain "You may cast this card from exile as long as you control a Lukka planeswalker."
−2: Exile target creature you control, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card with greater mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−7: Each creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
−2: Exile target creature you control, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card with greater mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−7: Each creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
Legendary Planeswalker - Lukka
Survey Mechan
Flying
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to any target. Target player draws three cards and gains 3 life. This ability costs less to activate, where X is the number of differently named lands you control.
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to any target. Target player draws three cards and gains 3 life. This ability costs less to activate, where X is the number of differently named lands you control.
Creature Artifact - Robot
Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine
When Yggdrasil enters, exile all creature cards from your graveyard.
: Exile the top three cards of your library.
, : Put a creature card exiled with Yggdrasil onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
: Exile the top three cards of your library.
, : Put a creature card exiled with Yggdrasil onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact
Maybeboard
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