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Anasazi

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Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $720.45Salt sum: 33.73

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It can play with its value engine + politics to stay relevant, but the lack of a one (or two) card win condition does mean closing out will be difficult. 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(Mana Maze shuts down storm and spell slinger, Out of Time can act as a board wipe that also locks out in-play commanders.)\nThe Slide+Sundial combo does exile commander cards permanently if the opponents don't choose to put their commander into the command zone when it is exiled because there is no state change when the return triggers are removed from the stack. YOU SHOULD CLEARLY EXPLAIN THIS INTERACTION TO YOUR PLAYGROUP IF YOU INTEND TO KEEP TO THE EXACT RULES IN THIS SITUATION.\n"}]}

Commander

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Ephara, God of the Polis
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Ephara, God of the Polis (sld) 72

Commander

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_Hidden Commander

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Astral Drift
Whenever you cycle this card or cycle another card while this enchantment is on the battlefield, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Astral Drift (mh1) 3
Astral Slide
Whenever a player cycles a card, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Enchantment
Astral Slide (ons) 4
Escape Protocol
Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay
. When you do, exile target artifact or creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Enchantment
Escape Protocol (iko) 48
Fluctuator
Cycling abilities you activate cost
less to activate.
Artifact
Fluctuator (c20) 241

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Copy

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Clever Impersonator
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Clever Impersonator (pktk) 34p
Estrid's Invocation
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of an enchantment you control, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile this enchantment. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."
Enchantment
Estrid's Invocation (mh3) 269

Copy

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Cycling Permanent

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Angel of the Ruins
Flying
When this creature enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Plainscycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature Artifact - Angel
Angel of the Ruins (mh3) 262
Ash Barrens
: Add
.
Basic landcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Land
Ash Barrens (brc) 174
Blasted Landscape
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Blasted Landscape (usg) 319
Capital City
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Town
Capital City (fin) 274
Curator of Mysteries
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Sphinx
Curator of Mysteries (akh) 49
Desert of the Mindful
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Desert
Desert of the Mindful (hou) 173
Desert of the True
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Desert
Desert of the True (hou) 174
Drifting Meadow
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Drifting Meadow (usg) 320
Eagles of the North
Flying
When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.
Plainscycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Soldier Bird
Eagles of the North (ltr) 7
Eternal Dragon
Flying
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
Plainscycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Dragon Spirit
Eternal Dragon (scg) 12
Irrigated Farmland
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island
Irrigated Farmland (pakh) 245s
Lay Claim
Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment - Aura
Lay Claim (akh) 61
Lingering Mirage
Enchant land
Enchanted land is an Island.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment - Aura
Lingering Mirage (usg) 84
Lonely Sandbar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Lonely Sandbar (ons) 320
Oketra's Attendant
Flying
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Embalm
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Bird Soldier with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Soldier Bird
Oketra's Attendant (akh) 22
Remote Isle
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Remote Isle (usg) 324
Secluded Steppe
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Secluded Steppe (ons) 324
Shardless Outlander
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Basic landcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature Artifact - Scout Construct
Shardless Outlander (j25) 28
Timeless Dragon
Flying
Plainscycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Eternalize
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Dragon
Timeless Dragon (mh2) 388
Waxen Shapethief
Flash
You may have this creature enter as a copy of an artifact or creature you control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Shapeshifter
Waxen Shapethief (dft) 74
Wreck Remover
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. You gain 1 life.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Wreck Remover (dft) 247

Cycling Permanent

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Cycling Spell

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Akroma's Blessing
Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Akroma's Blessing (ons) 1
Angelsong
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Angelsong (ala) 4
Aura Extraction
Put target enchantment on top of its owner's library.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Aura Extraction (ons) 5
Countervailing Winds
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
for each card in your graveyard.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Countervailing Winds (hou) 32
Forsake the Worldly
Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Forsake the Worldly (akh) 13
Lórien Revealed
Draw three cards.
Islandcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Sorcery
Lórien Revealed (ltr) 60
Miscalculation
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Miscalculation (ulg) 36
Neutralize
Counter target spell.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Neutralize (iko) 59
Spectacular Pileup
All creatures and Vehicles lose indestructible until end of turn, then destroy all creatures and Vehicles.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Spectacular Pileup (dft) 378

Cycling Spell

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End Game

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Azor, the Lawbringer
Flying
When Azor enters, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay
. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Azor, the Lawbringer (rix) 154
Lavinia of the Tenth
Protection from red
When Lavinia enters, detain each nonland permanent your opponents control with mana value 4 or less. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Lavinia of the Tenth (dgm) 80
Monstrosity of the Lake
When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay
. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Islandcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Legendary Creature - Kraken
Monstrosity of the Lake (ltc) 22

End Game

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Engine Payoff

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Dour Port-Mage
Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying, draw a card.
,
: Return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wizard Frog
Dour Port-Mage (blb) 47
Monument to Endurance
Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.
Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 394
Ominous Seas
Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Ominous Seas (iko) 61
Sundial of the Infinite
,
: End the turn. Activate only during your turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack. Discard down to your maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
Artifact
Sundial of the Infinite (plst) M12-218

Engine Payoff

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ETB Multiplier

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Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
Vigilance
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (one) 10
Virtue of Knowledge
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Enchantment
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions (woe) 279

ETB Multiplier

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Land

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Adagia, Windswept Bastion
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |
,
: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Adagia, Windswept Bastion (eoe) 277
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (blc) 291
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Demolition Field
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Demolition Field (m3c) 335
Deserted Beach
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deserted Beach (inr) 276
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 353
Geier Reach Sanitarium
: Add
.
,
: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.
Legendary Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (dmc) 213
Hall of Heliod's Generosity
: Add
.
,
: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (h1r) 39
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 404
Hengegate Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mir) 338
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (usg) 336
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (usg) 338
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mystic Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (usg) 331
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (usg) 332
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (usg) 333
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (hou) 182
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (brc) 201
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (brc) 132
Currency Converter
Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard.
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
: Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.
Artifact
Currency Converter (ncc) 81
Matzalantli, the Great Door
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
,
: Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)
Legendary Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160

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Recursion

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Herald of the Forgotten
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it, return any number of target permanent cards with cycling abilities from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Beast Cat
Herald of the Forgotten (c20) 27
Restoration Seminar
Return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Restoration Seminar (sos) 30
Tameshi, Reality Architect
Whenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Moonfolk
Tameshi, Reality Architect (neo) 82

Recursion

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Removal

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Out of Time
When this enchantment enters, untap all creatures, then those creatures phase out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Put a time counter on this enchantment for each creature that phased out this way.
Vanishing (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from this enchantment. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Enchantment
Out of Time (mh2) 383
Time Wipe
Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.
Sorcery
Time Wipe (pwar) 223

Removal

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Stax

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Mana Maze
Players can't cast spells that share a color with the spell most recently cast this turn.
Enchantment
Mana Maze (inv) 59

Stax

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Tutor

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Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 263
Idyllic Tutor
Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24
Moon-Blessed Cleric
Divine Intervention — When this creature enters, you may search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Creature - Human Cleric Elf
Moon-Blessed Cleric (afr) 26
Muddle the Mixture
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 315
Recruiter of the Guard
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with toughness 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Soldier
Recruiter of the Guard (mh3) 266
Step Through
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.
Wizardcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Sorcery
Step Through (mh2) 392
Tribute Mage
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Tribute Mage (h1r) 10
Trinket Mage
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Trinket Mage (ddf) 49
Vedalken Aethermage
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When this creature enters, return target Sliver to its owner's hand.
Wizardcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Wizard Vedalken
Vedalken Aethermage (fut) 61

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Maybeboard

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Aerial Extortionist
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it.
Whenever another player casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Creature - Soldier Bird
Aerial Extortionist (mkc) 54
Airbender Ascension
When this enchantment enters, airbend up to one target creature.
Whenever a creature you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your end step, if this enchantment has four or more quest counters on it, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Enchantment
Airbender Ascension (tla) 6
Akroma's Vengeance
Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Akroma's Vengeance (cmd) 3
All-Seeing Arbiter
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Whenever you discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-0 until your next turn, where X is the number of different mana values among cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Avatar
All-Seeing Arbiter (snc) 34
Archaeomancer
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archaeomancer (m14) 43
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (brc) 133
Bag of Holding
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all cards exiled with this artifact to their owner's hand.
Artifact
Bag of Holding (j22) 756
Cast Out
Flash
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Cast Out (dsc) 98
Complicate
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Complicate (ons) 76
Copy Enchantment
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Copy Enchantment (rvr) 312
Damping Sphere
If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces
instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs
more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.
Artifact
Damping Sphere (dmr) 219
Deafening Silence
Each player can't cast more than one noncreature spell each turn.
Enchantment
Deafening Silence (eld) 10
Don't Blink
Until end of turn, if one or more creatures would enter from exile or after being cast from exile, their owners shuffle them into their libraries instead.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Don't Blink (who) 40
Dragon Wings
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Dragon Wings (scg) 34
Drift of Phantasms
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Spirit
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 42
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (eoc) 60
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (brc) 141
Insight
Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.
Enchantment
Insight (tmp) 68
Island Sanctuary
If you would draw a card during your draw step, instead you may skip that draw. If you do, until your next turn, you can't be attacked except by creatures with flying and/or islandwalk.
Enchantment
Island Sanctuary (5ed) 39
Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Creature - Human Wizard
Laboratory Maniac (inr) 71
Mage's Guile
Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Mage's Guile (ons) 91
Meteor Golem
When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Meteor Golem (moc) 363
Meticulous Archive
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Island
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Mirrormade
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact or enchantment on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Mirrormade (eld) 55
Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (mir) 80
New Perspectives
When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
As long as you have seven or more cards in hand, you may pay
rather than pay cycling costs.
Enchantment
New Perspectives (c20) 119
Oracle of Tragedy
When this creature enters or dies, choose one —
• Draw a card, then discard a card.
• Shuffle up to four target cards with mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard into your library.
Creature - Human Wizard
Oracle of Tragedy (mom) 71
Overlord of the Floodpits
Impending 4—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Flying
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Overlord of the Floodpits (dsk) 68
Overlord of the Mistmoors
Impending 4—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create two 2/1 white Insect creature tokens with flying.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Overlord of the Mistmoors (dsk) 23
Panharmonicon
If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Artifact
Panharmonicon (tsr) 399
Peregrine Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Creature - Drake
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
Quantum Riddler
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, if you would draw one or more cards, you draw that many cards plus one instead.
Warp
Creature - Sphinx
Quantum Riddler (eoe) 72
Riptide Gearhulk
Double strike
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, put up to one target nonland permanent that player controls into its owner's library third from the top.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Riptide Gearhulk (dft) 219
Rune of Protection: Artifacts
: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Rune of Protection: Artifacts (usg) 35
Rune of Protection: Black
: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Rune of Protection: Black (usg) 36
Rune of Protection: Blue
: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Rune of Protection: Blue (usg) 37
Rune of Protection: Green
: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Rune of Protection: Green (usg) 38
Rune of Protection: Red
: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Rune of Protection: Red (usg) 40
Rune of Protection: White
: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Enchantment
Rune of Protection: White (usg) 41
Selfless Squire
Flash
When this creature enters, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Whenever damage that would be dealt to you is prevented, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Human Soldier
Selfless Squire (mkc) 82
Sevinne's Reclamation
Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (mh3) 267
Smothering Tithe
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay
. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 31
Soulherder
Whenever a creature is exiled from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile another target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Creature - Spirit
Soulherder (h1r) 30
Split Up
Choose one —
• Destroy all tapped creatures.
• Destroy all untapped creatures.
Sorcery
Split Up (dsk) 32
Stall Out
Tap target creature or Vehicle, then put three stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Stall Out (dft) 66
Subtlety
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Subtlety (h2r) 6
Summon: Yojimbo
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Exile target artifact, enchantment, or tapped creature an opponent controls.
II, III — Until your next turn, creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each of those creatures.
IV — Create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of opponents who control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Vigilance
Creature Enchantment - Saga Samurai
Summon: Yojimbo (fic) 28
Sun Titan
Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Giant
Sun Titan (woc) 77
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (ltc) 286
Terminus
Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
Miracle
(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sorcery
Terminus (avr) 38
Thalia's Lancers
First strike
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a legendary card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Knight
Thalia's Lancers (emn) 47
The Watcher in the Water
The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.
Legendary Creature - Kraken
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 765
Trophy Mage
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Trophy Mage (aer) 48
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "
: Add
."
II — This Saga gains "
,
: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost
or
, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
Urza's Saga (mh2) 380
Valgavoth's Lair
Hexproof
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Land Enchantment
Valgavoth's Lair (dsk) 271
Venser, the Sojourner
+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
−1: Creatures can't be blocked this turn.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."
Legendary Planeswalker - Venser
Venser, the Sojourner (som) 135
White Orchid Phantom
Flying, first strike
When this creature enters, destroy up to one target nonbasic land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Knight Spirit
White Orchid Phantom (mh3) 396
Wipe Clean
Exile target enchantment.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Wipe Clean (scg) 26

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Bird
Flying
Creature Token - Bird
Bird (tmh2) 1
Kraken
Creature Token - Kraken
Kraken (tiko) 6
Oketra's Attendant
Flying
Creature Token - Soldier Bird Zombie
Oketra's Attendant (takh) 9
Rogue
Creature Token - Rogue
Rogue (tsoc) 10
Timeless Dragon
Flying
Creature Token - Dragon Zombie
Timeless Dragon (tmh2) 4

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22 mana - 20 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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