Arcane Encyclopedia

Helm of Awakening

Genesis Hydra

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library.
Genesis Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Molder

Destroy target artifact or enchantment with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. You gain X life.

Villainous Wealth

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

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.

Blue Sun's Twilight

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Traverse the Outlands

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Panharmonicon

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

Biomass Mutation

Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.

Awakened Awareness

Enchant artifact or creature
When Awakened Awareness enters, put X +1/+1 counters on enchanted permanent.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has base power and toughness 1/1.

Unbound Flourishing

Whenever you cast a permanent spell with a mana cost that contains {X}, double the value of X.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell or activate an ability, if that spell's mana cost or that ability's activation cost contains {X}, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Arashi, the Sky Asunder

{X}{G}, {T}: Arashi, the Sky Asunder deals X damage to target creature with flying.
Channel — {X}{G}{G}, Discard Arashi: Arashi deals X damage to each creature with flying.

Cursecatcher

Sacrifice Cursecatcher: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Cloud Key

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

Broodlord

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Brood Telepathy — When Broodlord enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures you control.

Insectile Aberration

Delver of Secrets

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

The Crowd Goes Wild

Assist (Another player can pay up to {X} of this spell's cost. You choose the value of X.)
Support X. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures.)
Each creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains trample until end of turn.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Swamp

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.

Aberrant

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Trample
Heavy Power Hammer — Whenever Aberrant deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

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.

Breakthrough

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

Contortionist Troupe

Contortionist Troupe enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Coven — At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Manaplasm

Whenever you cast a spell, Manaplasm gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that spell's mana value.

Animist's Awakening

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Mana Bloom

Mana Bloom enters with X charge counters on it.
Remove a charge counter from Mana Bloom: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Mana Bloom has no charge counters on it, return it to its owner's hand.

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Cryptic Trilobite

Cryptic Trilobite enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Cryptic Trilobite: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cryptic Trilobite.

Nexos

Strategic Coordinator — Basic lands you control have "{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}."

Mind Unbound

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a lore counter on Mind Unbound, then draw a card for each lore counter on Mind Unbound.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Forest

Sol Ring

Exponential Growth

Until end of turn, double target creature's power X times.

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform Thaumatic Compass.

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.)

Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Benevolent Hydra

Benevolent Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
{T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Benevolent Hydra: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.

Boreal Druid

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash
When Tishana's Tidebinder enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

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.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Case of the Ransacked Lab

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
To solve — You've cast four or more instant and sorcery spells this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Temple Bell

Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
Hydroid Krasis enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered.
You may have Altered Ego enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Thunderclap Drake

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{U}, Sacrifice Thunderclap Drake: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Zaxara, the Exemplary

Deathtouch
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.

Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Gelatinous Genesis

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.

Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Armored Scrapgorger

Armored Scrapgorger gets +3/+0 as long as it has three or more oil counters on it.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever Armored Scrapgorger becomes tapped, exile target card from a graveyard and put an oil counter on Armored Scrapgorger.

Arcane Signet

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

Island

Endless One

Endless One enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Grove's Bounty

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Elusive Otter

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Creatures with power less than Elusive Otter's power can't block it.

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
{G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Hangarback Walker

Hangarback Walker enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Hangarback Walker dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.

Druidic Satchel

{2}, {T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. If it's a land card, put that card onto the battlefield under your control. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you gain 2 life.

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.