Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Draw a card.

Contingency Plan

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Divide by Zero

Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

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.

Taigam's Scheming

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

Mental Note

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sky Diamond

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.

Sapphire Medallion

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

Counterspell

Sol Ring

Cephalid Constable

Whenever Cephalid Constable deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owner's hand.

Clear the Mind

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.

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.

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.

Millikin

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Golden Guardian

Defender
{2}: Golden Guardian fights another target creature you control. When Golden Guardian dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Gold-Forge Garrison

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.
{4}, {T}: Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

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.

Perplexing Test

Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Artful Dodge

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback {U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Maximize Altitude

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Leap

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Draw a card.

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.

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Equipped creature has defender and "{2}, {T}: Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."
Equip {3}

Sphinx-Bone Wand

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Mist of Stagnation

Permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses a permanent for each card in their graveyard, then untaps those permanents.

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Blighted Agent

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Blighted Agent can't be blocked.

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When Thieving Skydiver enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.

Deranged Assistant

Ornithopter

Spectral Sailor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
{3}{U}: Draw a card.

Ornithopter of Paradise

Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever Ghostly Pilferer becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Discard a card: Ghostly Pilferer can't be blocked this turn.

Silver Myr

Siren Stormtamer

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

Slither Blade

Mist-Cloaked Herald

Triton Shorestalker

Ledger Shredder

Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, Ledger Shredder connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Pteramander

Flying
{7}{U}: Adapt 4. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Archaeomancer

When Archaeomancer enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Docent of Perfection

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token. Then if you control three or more Wizards, transform Docent of Perfection.

Final Iteration

Flying
Wizards you control get +2/+1 and have flying.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token.

Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration

Deekah, Fractal Theorist

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.

Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Invisible Stalker can't be blocked.

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

The Reality Chip

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

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.

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever Looter il-Kor deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}{U}, Exile Metallurgic Summonings: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

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