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

Sage of Fables

Each other Wizard creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
{2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Island

Swamp

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.

Suspend

Exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Ingenious Prodigy

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Ingenious Prodigy enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ingenious Prodigy has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, draw a card.

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}.

Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Nimble Obstructionist

Flash
Flying
Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Nimble Obstructionist, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying.
Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Archivist

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Thassa's Ire

{3}{U}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Sapphire Medallion

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

Vela the Night-Clad

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Other creatures you control have intimidate.
Whenever Vela the Night-Clad or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.

Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• You may tap or untap target creature.
• Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Lapis Lazuli Talisman

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, untap target permanent.

Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Fatestitcher

{T}: You may tap or untap another target permanent.
Unearth {U} ({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.)

Resculpt

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

Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Captain of the Mists

Whenever another Human you control enters, untap Captain of the Mists.
{1}{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target permanent.

Command Tower

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

Reliquary Tower

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

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1}{U} — Counter target spell.
+ {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+ {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Patron Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Spell Syphon

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each blue permanent you control.

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Venser, Shaper Savant

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

Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Frostwind Invoker

Flying
{8}: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Volo's Journal

Hexproof
Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for this artifact.

Stonybrook Banneret

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Fell the Profane

Fell Mire

As Fell Mire enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Smirking Spelljacker

Flash
Flying
When Smirking Spelljacker enters, exile target spell an opponent controls.
Whenever Smirking Spelljacker attacks, if a card is exiled with it, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Shadowmage Infiltrator

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Shadowmage Infiltrator deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

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.

Sigil Tracer

{1}{U}, Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.
{U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn.
{U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
{1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Port of Karfell

Port of Karfell enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Port of Karfell: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Umara Wizard

Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, Umara Wizard gains flying until end of turn.

Umara Skyfalls

Umara Skyfalls enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Soporific Springs

As Soporific Springs enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs

Stonework Packbeast

Stonework Packbeast is also a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.
{2}: Add one mana of any color.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Patchwork Banner

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

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Gloomlake Verge

{T}: Add {U}.
{T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Secret Passage

Secret Passage enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

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.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Talisman of Dominance

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

Arcanis the Omnipotent

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

Waterlogged Teachings

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

Inundated Archive

Inundated Archive enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive

Dimir Signet

Siren Stormtamer

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

Crab Umbra

Enchant creature
{2}{U}: Untap enchanted creature.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Nimbleclaw Adept

Bigby's Hand — {T}: Untap two other target permanents. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn.

Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Pit of Offerings

Pit of Offerings enters tapped.
When Pit of Offerings enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Mystic Archaeologist

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.)

Riptide Director

{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Draw a card for each Wizard you control.

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.

Sol Ring

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Magewright's Stone

{1}, {T}: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with {T} in its cost.

Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap Staff of Domination.
{2}, {T}: You gain 1 life.
{3}, {T}: Untap target creature.
{4}, {T}: Tap target creature.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
{1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Dimir Guildmage

({U/B} can be paid with either {U} or {B}.)
{3}{U}: Target player draws a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
{3}{B}: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Arcane Signet

Beguiler of Wills

{T}: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of creatures you control.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Abstergo Entertainment

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{3}, {T}, Exile Abstergo Entertainment: Return up to one target historic card from your graveyard to your hand, then exile all graveyards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Azure Mage

Titan of Littjara

As Titan of Littjara enters, choose a creature type.
Titan of Littjara is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Whenever Titan of Littjara enters or attacks, you may draw a card for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it. If you do, discard a card.

Cover of Darkness

As Cover of Darkness enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Galecaster Colossus

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.

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