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Genius the Grizzled Way
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Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius

Spells you cast from your graveyard or from exile cost {2} less to cast. Plotting cards from your hand costs {2} less.

Creature
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius (otj) 201

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Mirrorhall Mimic

Creature
Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry (vow) 68Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry (vow) 68
Visage Bandit

You may have Visage Bandit enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types. Plot {2}{U} (You may pay {2}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Visage Bandit (otj) 76

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (mm3) 32
Croaking Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog. Flashback {3}{G}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Croaking Counterpart (mid) 215
Lucky Clover

Whenever you cast an Adventure instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Lucky Clover (eld) 226
Virtue of Knowledge

Enchantment
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions (woe) 76

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Counters

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C.A.M.P.

Whenever fortified land is tapped for mana, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. If that creature shares a color with the mana that land produced, create a Junk token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.") Fortify {3} ({3}: Attach to target land you control. Fortify only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
C.A.M.P. (pip) 129
Railway Brawler

Reach, trample Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Railway Brawler (otj) 175
Sisterhood of Karn

Sisterhood of Karn enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, double the number of +1/+1 counters on Sisterhood of Karn.

Creature
Sisterhood of Karn (who) 109
The Thirteenth Doctor

Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Team TARDIS — At the beginning of your end step, untap each creature you control with a counter on it.

Creature
The Thirteenth Doctor (who) 4

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Aloe Alchemist

Trample When Aloe Alchemist becomes plotted, target creature gets +3/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Plot {1}{G} (You may pay {1}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Aloe Alchemist (otj) 152
Djinn of Fool's Fall

Flying Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Djinn of Fool's Fall (otj) 43
Freestrider Commando

Freestrider Commando enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if it wasn't cast or no mana was spent to cast it. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Freestrider Commando (otj) 162
Spinewoods Paladin

Trample When Spinewoods Paladin enters, you gain 3 life. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Spinewoods Paladin (otj) 183

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Battle Mammoth

Trample Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card. Foretell {2}{G}{G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Battle Mammoth (clb) 818
Beastbond Outcaster

When Beastbond Outcaster enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Plot {1}{G} (You may pay {1}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Beastbond Outcaster (otj) 154
Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Behold the Multiverse (khm) 46
Durnan of the Yawning Portal

Whenever Durnan attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may cast it. That spell has undaunted. (It costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Durnan of the Yawning Portal (clb) 657
Edgewall Innkeeper

Whenever you cast a creature spell that has an Adventure, draw a card. (It doesn't need to have gone on the adventure first.)

Creature
Edgewall Innkeeper (eld) 151
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Ward {2} You may look at the top card of your library any time. The top card of your library has plot. The plot cost is equal to its mana cost. You may plot nonland cards from the top of your library.

Creature
Fblthp, Lost on the Range (otj) 48
Grolnok, the Omnivore

Whenever a Frog you control attacks, mill three cards. Whenever a permanent card is put into your graveyard from your library, exile it with a croak counter on it. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards you own in exile with croak counters on them.

Creature
Grolnok, the Omnivore (vow) 238
Loan Shark

When Loan Shark enters, if you've cast two or more spells this turn, draw a card. Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Loan Shark (otj) 55
Make Your Own Luck

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. If you do, it becomes plotted. Put the rest into your hand. (You may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Make Your Own Luck (otj) 218
Oracle's Vault

{2}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. Put a brick counter on Oracle's Vault. {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Oracle's Vault.

Artifact
Oracle's Vault (ncc) 374
Primordial Mist

At the beginning of your end step, you may manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Enchantment
Primordial Mist (c18) 12
River Kelpie

Whenever River Kelpie 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
River Kelpie (c19) 93
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 {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} 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
Tempest Hart

Creature
Tempest Hart // Scan the Clouds (woe) 238
The Key to the Vault

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. Equip {2}{U}

Artifact
The Key to the Vault (otj) 54
Think Twice

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

Instant
Think Twice (otc) 119
Young Blue Dragon

Creature
Young Blue Dragon // Sand Augury (clb) 106

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Land

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Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312

Land

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
Moment's Peace

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Moment's Peace (ody) 251

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Beanstalk Wurm

Creature
Beanstalk Wurm // Plant Beans (woe) 161
Bramble Familiar

Creature
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 164
Catalyst Stone

Flashback costs you pay cost {2} less. Flashback costs your opponents pay cost {2} more.

Artifact
Catalyst Stone (ody) 297
Cosmos Charger

Flash Flying Foretelling cards from your hand costs {1} less and can be done on any player's turn. Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Cosmos Charger (khm) 51
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (lcc) 235
Osgood, Operation Double

When you cast this spell, create a token that's a copy of it, except it isn't legendary. {T}: Add {C}. 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 "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Creature
Osgood, Operation Double (who) 191
Rootcoil Creeper

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast spells from your graveyard. {G}{U}, {T}, Exile Rootcoil Creeper: Return target card with flashback you own from exile to your hand.

Creature
Rootcoil Creeper (mid) 238
Rosethorn Acolyte

Creature
Rosethorn Acolyte // Seasonal Ritual (eld) 174
Sage of the Beyond

Flying Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {2} less to cast. Foretell {4}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Sage of the Beyond (otc) 111
Savvy Trader

When Savvy Trader enters, exile target permanent card from your graveyard. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Savvy Trader (otc) 33
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Sword of Forge and Frontier

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from green. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. You may play an additional land this turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Forge and Frontier (one) 244
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

When Uro enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Uro enters or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath (thb) 229
Virtue of Strength

Enchantment
Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth (woe) 197

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Recursion

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Archmage's Newt

Whenever Archmage's Newt deals combat damage to a player, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. That card gains flashback {0} until end of turn instead if Archmage's Newt is saddled. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) Saddle 3

Creature
Archmage's Newt (otj) 39
Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Eternal Scourge

You may cast Eternal Scourge from exile. When Eternal Scourge becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, exile Eternal Scourge.

Creature
Eternal Scourge (emn) 7
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy (clb) 72
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.

Creature
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (mid) 59
Skyway Robber

Flying Escape—{3}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) Skyway Robber escapes with "Whenever Skyway Robber deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell from among cards exiled with Skyway Robber without paying its mana cost."

Creature
Skyway Robber (ncc) 31
Slickshot Lockpicker

When Slickshot Lockpicker enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) Plot {2}{U} (You may pay {2}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Slickshot Lockpicker (otj) 67
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (uma) 71
Tlincalli Hunter

Creature
Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey (clb) 682

Recursion

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Removal

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Brazen Borrower

Creature
Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft (eld) 39
Break Down

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Create a Junk token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Break Down (pip) 74
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Emerald Dragon

Creature
Emerald Dragon // Dissonant Wave (clb) 229
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
Green Slime

Flash When Green Slime enters, counter target activated or triggered ability from an artifact or enchantment source. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, destroy that permanent. Foretell {G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Green Slime (clb) 680
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (clb) 724
Illithid Harvester

Creature
Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles (clb) 76
Malevolent Hermit

Creature
Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist (mid) 61Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist (mid) 61
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 {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Sapphire Dragon

Creature
Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse (clb) 94
Saw It Coming

Counter target spell. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Saw It Coming (khm) 76
Sword Coast Serpent

Creature
Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave (clb) 99
The Foretold Soldier

The Foretold Soldier must be blocked if able. The Foretold Soldier can't be blocked by more than one creature. Whenever The Foretold Soldier deals damage, exile it face down. It becomes foretold. Foretell {1}{G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
The Foretold Soldier (who) 102

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Stax

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Uba Mask

If a player would draw a card, that player exiles that card face up instead. Each player may play lands and cast spells from among cards they exiled with Uba Mask this turn.

Artifact
Uba Mask (chk) 272

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Theft

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Dream-Thief's Bandana

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of their library, then exile it face down. For as long as it remains exiled, you may play it, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. Equip {1}

Artifact
Dream-Thief's Bandana (otc) 38

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Tokens

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Alrund's Epiphany

Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany. Foretell {4}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Alrund's Epiphany (khm) 41
Outlaw Stitcher

When Outlaw Stitcher enters, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token, then put two +1/+1 counters on that token for each spell you've cast this turn other than the first. Plot {4}{U} (You may pay {4}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Outlaw Stitcher (otj) 59
Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (otc) 116

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