Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash
When Venser, Shaper Savant enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Target player draws three cards.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Brainstorm

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

Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Clever Impersonator

You may have Clever Impersonator enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Confiscate

Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.

Counsel of the Soratami

Counterspell

Cryptic Command

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

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Discontinuity

During your turn, this spell costs {2}{U}{U} less to cast.
End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Draining Whelk

Flash
Flying
When Draining Whelk enters, counter target spell. Put X +1/+1 counters on Draining Whelk, where X is that spell's mana value.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

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.

Foil

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

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.

Gather Specimens

If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters under your control instead.

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Oblivion Stone

{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Inscription of Insight

Kicker {2}{U}{U}
Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead.
• Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.
• Scry 2, then draw two cards.
• Target player creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

Island

Jace Beleren

+2: Each player draws a card.
−1: Target player draws a card.
−10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Jace, Mirror Mage

Kicker {2}
When Jace, Mirror Mage enters, if Jace was kicked, create a token that's a copy of Jace, Mirror Mage, except it's not legendary and its starting loyalty is 1.
+1: Scry 2.
0: Draw a card and reveal it. Remove a number of loyalty counters equal to that card's mana value from Jace, Mirror Mage.

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Kederekt Leviathan

When Kederekt Leviathan enters, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Unearth {6}{U} ({6}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Ponder

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

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.)

Lat-Nam's Legacy

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Mindbreak Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.

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.)

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sol Ring

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

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.

Take Possession

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Thwart

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Time Stop

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Vedalken Shackles

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Volition Reins

Enchant permanent
When Volition Reins enters, if enchanted permanent is tapped, untap it.
You control enchanted permanent.

Wipe Away

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Mocking Doppelganger

Flash
You may have Mocking Doppelganger enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Agent of Treachery

When Agent of Treachery enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Corrupted Conscience

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Blatant Thievery

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

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.

Aethersnatch

Gain control of target spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell becomes a permanent, it enters under your control.)

Spelljack

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Deadeye Navigator

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 Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When Torrential Gearhulk enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Sapphire Medallion

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

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Jace's Triumph

Draw two cards. If you control a Jace planeswalker, draw three cards instead.

Gale's Redirection

Exile target spell, then roll a d20 and add that spell's mana value.
1—14 | You may cast the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
15+ | You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled.

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