Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. Until end of turn, that player can't cast spells, you may look at the top card of their library any time, you may play the top card of their library, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells this way.

Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters tapped.
When Dismal Backwater enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Archmage Emeritus

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

Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or more.

Shortcut Seeker

Whenever Shortcut Seeker deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, Hall of Storm Giants enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{5}{U}: Until end of turn, Hall of Storm Giants becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Guild Thief

Whenever Guild Thief deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Cunning Action — {3}{U}: Guild Thief can't be blocked this turn.

Charmed Sleep

Enchant creature
When Charmed Sleep enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

You Come to a River

Choose one —
• Fight the Current — Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Find a Crossing — Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Baleful Beholder

When Baleful Beholder enters, choose one —
• Antimagic Cone — Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.
• Fear Ray — Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Whenever Krydle of Baldur's Gate deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1.
Whenever you attack, you may pay {2}. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Yuan-Ti Malison

Yuan-Ti Malison can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone.
Whenever Yuan-Ti Malison deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade

Deathtouch
Whenever Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Mordenkainen's Polymorph

Until end of turn, target creature becomes a Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 and gains flying. (It loses all other creature types.)

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon." (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Drider

Reach
Whenever Drider deals combat damage to a player, create a 2/1 black Spider creature token with menace and reach.

Fates' Reversal

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Wizard's Spellbook

{T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery.
1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy.
10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost.
20 | Copy each card exiled with Wizard's Spellbook. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Treasure Chest

{4}, Sacrifice Treasure Chest: Roll a d20.
1 | Trapped! — You lose 3 life.
2—9 | Create five Treasure tokens.
10—19 | You gain 3 life and draw three cards.
20 | Search your library for a card. If it's an artifact card, you may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle.

Lightfoot Rogue

Sneak Attack — Whenever Lightfoot Rogue attacks, roll a d20.
1—9 | Lightfoot Rogue gains deathtouch until end of turn.
10—19 | It gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
20 | It gets +3/+0 and gains first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

Rogue Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.
{1}{U}{B}: Level 2
Creatures you control have menace.
{2}{U}{B}: Level 3
You may play cards exiled with Rogue Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
{2}{U}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
{4}{U}: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}{B}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
{6}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Trickster's Talisman

Invoke Duplicity — Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice Trickster's Talisman. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature."
Equip {2}

Reaper's Talisman

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Soulknife Spy

Whenever Soulknife Spy deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Demogorgon's Clutches

Target opponent discards two cards, mills two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Check for Traps

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. If an instant card or a card with flash is exiled this way, they lose 1 life. Otherwise, you lose 1 life.

Mordenkainen

+2: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.
−2: Create a blue Dog Illusion creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of cards in your hand."
−10: Exchange your hand and library, then shuffle. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

True Polymorph

Target artifact or creature becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature.

Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When Mind Flayer enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control Mind Flayer.

Thieves' Tools

When Thieves' Tools enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Equipped creature can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Hoard Robber

Whenever Hoard Robber deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Grim Hireling

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens.
{B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ebony Fly

Ebony Fly enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}: Roll a d6. Until end of turn, you may have Ebony Fly become an X/X Insect artifact creature with flying, where X is the result.
Whenever Ebony Fly attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

Command Tower

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

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.)

Evolving Wilds

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

Demon of Loathing

Flying, trample
Whenever Demon of Loathing deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Elspeth's Nightmare

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with power 2 or less.
II — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
III — Exile target opponent's graveyard.

The Blackstaff of Waterdeep

You may choose not to untap The Blackstaff of Waterdeep during your untap step.
Animate Walking Statue — {1}{U}, {T}: Another target nontoken artifact you control becomes a 4/4 artifact creature for as long as The Blackstaff of Waterdeep remains tapped. Activate only as a sorcery.

Clever Conjurer

Mage Hand — {T}: Untap target permanent not named Clever Conjurer. Activate only as a sorcery.

Shielding Plax

({G/U} can be paid with either {G} or {U}.)
Enchant creature
When Shielding Plax enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.

Blood Fountain

When Blood Fountain enters, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{3}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Blood Fountain: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Cradle of Safety

Flash
Enchant creature you control
When Cradle of Safety enters, enchanted creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Consuming Tide

Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.

Spellkeeper Weird

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Spellkeeper Weird: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Savage Gorger

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Savage Gorger. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Heraldic Banner

As Heraldic Banner enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sea God's Scorn

Return up to three target creatures and/or enchantments to their owners' hands.

Aspect of Lamprey

Enchant creature you control
When Aspect of Lamprey enters, target opponent discards two cards.
Enchanted creature has lifelink.

Kaya, Bane of the Dead

Your opponents and permanents your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
−3: Exile target creature.

Funeral Rites

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Wormhole Serpent

{3}{U}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Lolth, Spider Queen

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth, Spider Queen.
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."

Sphere of Annihilation

Sphere of Annihilation enters with X void counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile Sphere of Annihilation, all creatures and planeswalkers with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it, and all creature and planeswalker cards in graveyards with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it.

Sudden Insight

Draw a card for each different mana value among nonland cards in your graveyard.

Grim Bounty

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Aberrant Mind Sorcerer

Psionic Spells — When Aberrant Mind Sorcerer enters, choose target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard, then roll a d20.
1—9 | You may put that card on top of your library.
10—20 | Return that card to your hand.

Temple of the Dragon Queen

As Temple of the Dragon Queen enters, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Temple of the Dragon Queen enters tapped unless you revealed a Dragon card this way or you control a Dragon.
As Temple of the Dragon Queen enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Diviner's Portent

Roll a d20 and add the number of cards in your hand.
1—14 | Draw X cards.
15+ | Scry X, then draw X cards.

Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Focus Beam — At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a d4. Scry X, where X is the result.
Perfect Illumination — Whenever you roll a die's highest natural result, draw a card.

Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.)
Equip {1}

Thriving Isle

Thriving Isle enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Moonsilver Spear

Equipped creature has first strike.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
Equip {4}

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip {2}

Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Cold-Eyed Selkie deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

Psychic Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you scry 2.

Eel Umbra

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Sol Ring

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Exotic Orchard

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

Mischievous Catgeist

Whenever Mischievous Catgeist deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Catlike Curiosity

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
If Catlike Curiosity would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity

Wedding Invitation

When Wedding Invitation enters, draw a card.
{T}, Sacrifice Wedding Invitation: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. If it's a Vampire, it also gains lifelink until end of turn.

Investigator's Journal

Investigator's Journal enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls.
{2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.
{2}, Sacrifice Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.

Honored Heirloom

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Undying Malice

Swamp

Island

Commence the Endgame

This spell can't be countered.
Draw two cards, then amass Zombies X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. (Put X +1/+1 counters 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.)

Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadir Kraken and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Protean Thaumaturge

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, you may have Protean Thaumaturge become a copy of another target creature, except it has this ability.

Faerie Vandal

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Faerie Vandal.

Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea

Callaphe's power is equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creatures and enchantments you control have "Spells your opponents cast that target this permanent cost {1} more to cast."

You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one —
• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.
• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Bag of Holding: Return all cards exiled with Bag of Holding to their owner's hand.

Djinni Windseer

Flying
When Djinni Windseer enters, roll a d20.
1—9 | Scry 1.
10—19 | Scry 2.
20 | Scry 3.

Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip {2}

Cyclone Summoner

When Cyclone Summoner enters, if you cast it from your hand, return all permanents to their owners' hands except for Giants, Wizards, and lands.

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