Stern Lesson

Draw two cards, then discard a card. Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

The Phasing of Zhalfir

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control The Phasing of Zhalfir.
III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.

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}.)

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Strip Mine

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

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

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

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Reliquary Tower

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

Rogue's Passage

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

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.

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Scavenger Grounds

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

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
{1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Tribute Mage

When Tribute Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.)

Minamo Sightbender

{X}, {T}: Target creature with power X or less can't be blocked this turn.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Lu Xun, Scholar General

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Whenever Lu Xun, Scholar General deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Deadeye Quartermaster

When Deadeye Quartermaster enters, you may search your library for an Equipment or Vehicle card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Deep-Sea Kraken

Deep-Sea Kraken can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine 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. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Deep-Sea Kraken is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Swiftfoot Boots

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

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}

Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Sapphire Medallion

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

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {2}

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Cathar's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

Accorder's Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Fellwar Stone

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

Thought Vessel

Tome of Legends

Tome of Legends enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on Tome of Legends.
{1}, {T}, Remove a page counter from Tome of Legends: Draw a card.

Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.
Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one —
• Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
Equip {2}

Aqueous Form

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Writ of Passage

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, if its power is 2 or less, it can't be blocked this turn.
Forecast — {1}{U}, Reveal Writ of Passage from your hand: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Monastery Siege

As Monastery Siege enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card, then discard a card.
• Dragons — Spells your opponents cast that target you or a permanent you control cost {2} more to cast.

Aether Tunnel

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.

Back to Basics

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

Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Pongify

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

Counterspell

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.)

Rapid Hybridization

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

Disallow

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

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Pull from Tomorrow

Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

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.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

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.

Passwall Adept

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

Serpent of Yawning Depths

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

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.")

Keep Safe

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.
Draw a card.

Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Flow of Ideas

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Whelming Wave

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

Argivian Restoration

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Distortion Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost {2} more to cast.
{3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Venser, Shaper Savant

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

Island

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform Thaumatic Compass.

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

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