Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Negate

Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Winds of Rebuke

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Pieces of the Puzzle

Reveal the top five cards of your library. Put up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Abstruse Interference

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. You create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Adverse Conditions

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step. Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Intellectual Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each draw three cards.
Choose an opponent. Untap all nonland permanents you control and all nonland permanents that player controls.

Taigam's Scheming

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Gigadrowse

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Tap target permanent.

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Mental Note

Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.

Flux

Each player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
Draw a card.

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Spellseeker

When Spellseeker enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Lazotep Plating

Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Bond of Insight

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Thought Sponge

Flash
Thought Sponge enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest number of cards an opponent has drawn this turn.
When Thought Sponge dies, draw cards equal to its power.

Gadwick, the Wizened

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

Merfolk Secretkeeper

Venture Deeper

Target player mills four cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper

Contingency Plan

Compelling Argument

Target player mills five cards.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Catalog

Thirst for Meaning

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card.

Sweet Oblivion

Target player mills four cards.
Escape—{3}{U}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Frantic Search

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

Rain of Revelation

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

Blinkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Blinkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.
{1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Rush of Knowledge

Draw cards equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When Thieving Skydiver enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

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.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

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.

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Strategic Planning

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

Windfall

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

Careful Consideration

Target player draws four cards, then discards three cards. If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead that player draws four cards, then discards two cards.

Tolaria West

Tolaria West enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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.

Archmage Emeritus

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

Theoretical Duplication

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters this turn, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Mind Stone

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

Sol Ring

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Sapphire Medallion

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

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.

Arcane Signet

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

Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Thirst for Discovery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.

Island

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Cephalid Constable

Whenever Cephalid Constable deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owner's hand.

Champion of Wits

When Champion of Wits enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards.
Eternalize {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever Ghostly Pilferer becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Discard a card: Ghostly Pilferer can't be blocked this turn.

God-Eternal Kefnet

Flying
You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, copy that card and you may cast the copy. That copy costs {2} less to cast.
When God-Eternal Kefnet dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Draw a card.

Careful Study

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever Looter il-Kor deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

Curate

Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Draw a card.

Serum Visions

Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Invisible Stalker can't be blocked.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Counterspell

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Slither Blade

Siren Stormtamer

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Pteramander

Flying
{7}{U}: Adapt 4. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Thought Vessel

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

Runechanter's Pike

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Equip {2}

Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

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