Unblinking Observer

{T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to pay a disturb cost or cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Cogwork Archivist

Reach
{2}, {T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

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.

Charmed Sleep

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

Words of Wind

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand instead.

Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Rousing Read

Enchant creature
When Rousing Read enters, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Soulknife Spy

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

Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters, you take the initiative.
{T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead.
{3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Spellbook

Novellamental

Flying
Novellamental can block only creatures with flying.

Emmessi Tome

{5}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Geist of the Archives

Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Hard Cover

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has "{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card."

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.

Jace's Archivist

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

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

+1: Scry 1, then draw a card.
−2: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."

Jace's Sanctum

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

Karn, Living Legacy

+1: Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
−1: Pay any amount of mana. Look at that many cards from the top of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−7: You get an emblem with "Tap an untapped artifact you control: This emblem deals 1 damage to any target."

Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Bury in Books

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.

Staff of the Mind Magus

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Stern Mentor

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Stern Mentor is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{T}: Target player mills two cards."

Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Increasing Confusion

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.
Flashback {X}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The Underworld Cookbook

{T}, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice The Underworld Cookbook: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on Ludevic's Test Subject. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

Ludevic's Abomination

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

Mazemind Tome

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card.
When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Animate Library

Enchant your library
Enchanted library is an artifact creature on the battlefield with power and toughness each equal to the number of cards in it. It's still a library.
If enchanted library would leave the battlefield, exile Animate Library instead.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Mysterious Tome

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Transform Mysterious Tome.

Chilling Chronicle

{1}, {T}: Tap target nonland permanent. Transform Chilling Chronicle.

Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle

Curious Homunculus

{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform Curious Homunculus.

Voracious Reader

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader

Mystic Redaction

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Otherworld Atlas

{T}: Put a charge counter on Otherworld Atlas.
{T}: Each player draws a card for each charge counter on Otherworld Atlas.

Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

Overwhelmed Archivist

When Overwhelmed Archivist enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Disturb {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Archive Haunt

Flying
Whenever Archive Haunt attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
If Archive Haunt would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt

Component Pouch

{T}, Remove a component counter from Component Pouch: Add two mana of different colors.
{T}: Roll a d20.
1—9 | Put a component counter on Component Pouch.
10—20 | Put two component counters on Component Pouch.

Trail of Evidence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Library of Lat-Nam

An opponent chooses one —
• You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
• You search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Academy Elite

Academy Elite enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in all graveyards.
{2}{U}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Academy Elite: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Storm of Forms

When you cast this spell, copy it for each kind of counter among permanents you control. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Overwhelmed Apprentice

When Overwhelmed Apprentice enters, each opponent mills two cards. Then you 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.)

Suspicious Bookcase

Defender
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

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.

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.
{3}{U}: Draw a card.

Campus Guide

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Academy Loremaster

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost {2} more to cast.

Candlekeep Sage

Commander creatures you own have "When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, draw a card."

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher

Vigilance
{T}: Add an amount of {C} equal to Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher's toughness. This mana can't be spent to cast spells from your hand.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Tome Raider

Flying
When Tome Raider enters, draw a card.

Reckless Scholar

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

Scroll Thief

Whenever Scroll Thief deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Skilled Animator

When Skilled Animator enters, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as Skilled Animator remains on the battlefield.

Island

Volo, Itinerant Scholar

When Volo enters, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for this artifact."
{2}, {T}: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal.
Choose a Background

Imoen, Mystic Trickster

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, draw a card. Draw another card if you've completed a dungeon.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Tome Anima

Tome Anima can't be blocked as long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn.

Micromancer

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 1, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Pore Over the Pages

Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.

Behold the Unspeakable

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Creatures you don't control get -2/-0 until your next turn.
II — If you have one or fewer cards in hand, draw four cards. Otherwise, scry 2, then draw two cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Vision of the Unspeakable

Flying, trample
Vision of the Unspeakable gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

Behold the Unspeakable // Vision of the Unspeakable

Aeon Chronicler

Aeon Chronicler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Suspend X—{X}{3}{U}. X can't be 0.
Whenever a time counter is removed from Aeon Chronicler while it's exiled, draw a card.

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When Mulldrifter enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Gadwick, the Wizened

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

Ormos, Archive Keeper

Flying
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos, Archive Keeper.
{1}{U}{U}, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

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

Rescue

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Combat Research

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Sky Diamond

Thought Vessel

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

Urza's Tome

{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you exile a historic card from your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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.

Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way.
Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Guardian Idol

Guardian Idol enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}: Guardian Idol becomes a 2/2 Golem artifact creature until end of turn.

Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size.
{X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards.
{2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Mind Stone

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

Field Research

Kicker {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Draw two cards. If this spell was kicked, draw three cards instead.

Skyscribing

Each player draws X cards.
Forecast — {2}{U}, Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Jalum Tome

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Arcane Encyclopedia

Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.

Automatic Librarian

When Automatic Librarian enters, 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.)

Solve the Equation

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

Spectral Searchlight

{T}: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color they choose.

Contact Other Plane

Roll a d20.
1—9 | Draw two cards.
10—19 | Scry 2, then draw two cards.
20 | Scry 3, then draw three cards.

Devious Cover-Up

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
{T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Jodah's Codex

Domain — {5}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each basic land type among lands you control.

Into the Story

This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.

Draconic Lore

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you control a Dragon.
Draw three cards.

Reliquary 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.

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