Practical Research

Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.

Mountain

Rootha, Mercurial Artist

{2}, Return Rootha, Mercurial Artist to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Frostboil Snarl

As Frostboil Snarl enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Frostboil Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Barrin, Tolarian Archmage

When Barrin, Tolarian Archmage 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.

Creative Outburst

Creative Outburst deals 5 damage to any target. Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Creative Outburst: Create a Treasure token.

Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Storm-Kiln Artist

Storm-Kiln Artist gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Birgi, God of Storytelling

Whenever you cast a spell, add {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once.

Harnfel, Horn of Bounty

Discard a card: Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty

Strategic Planning

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

Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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.

Prophetic Bolt

Prophetic Bolt deals 4 damage to any target. Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Twinning Staff

If you would copy a spell one or more times, instead copy it that many times plus an additional time. You may choose new targets for the additional copy.
{7}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Archaeomancer

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

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Gadwick, the Wizened

When Gadwick, the Wizened enters, draw X cards.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Jace's Sanctum

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

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tribute Mage

When Tribute Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Finale of Promise

You may cast up to one target instant card and/or up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard each with mana value X or less without paying their mana costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If X is 10 or more, copy each of those spells twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Electrodominance

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Expansion

Copy target instant or sorcery spell with mana value 4 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Explosion

Explosion deals X damage to any target. Target player draws X cards.

Expansion // Explosion

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Ionize

Counter target spell. Ionize deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Anger of the Gods

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}{U}, Exile Metallurgic Summonings: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Insidious Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• You may choose new targets for target spell.
• Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Baral's Expertise

Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.
You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sweltering Suns

Sweltering Suns deals 3 damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

Counterspell

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Sol Ring

Spell Satchel

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on Spell Satchel.
{T}, Remove a book counter from Spell Satchel: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Remove three book counters from Spell Satchel: Draw a card.

Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Arcane Signet

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

Dualcaster Mage

Flash
When Dualcaster Mage enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Izzet Signet

Repeated Reverberation

When you next cast an instant spell, cast a sorcery spell, or activate a loyalty ability this turn, copy that spell or ability twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Talisman of Creativity deals 1 damage to you.

Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral, Storm Conduit deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Twinflame

Strive — This spell costs {2}{R} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it has haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

Star Compass

Star Compass enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Island

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.

Volatile Fjord

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Volatile Fjord enters tapped.

Evolving Wilds

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

Swiftwater Cliffs

Swiftwater Cliffs enters tapped.
When Swiftwater Cliffs enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{R}.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Command Tower

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Temple of Epiphany

Temple of Epiphany enters tapped.
When Temple of Epiphany enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Windfall

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

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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