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

Blood Moon

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Bonecrusher Giant

Whenever Bonecrusher Giant becomes the target of a spell, Bonecrusher Giant deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.

Stomp

Damage can't be prevented this turn. Stomp deals 2 damage to any target.

Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp

Brainstorm

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

Brazen Borrower

Flash
Flying
Brazen Borrower can block only creatures with flying.

Petty Theft

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

Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

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.

Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

Ancestral Recall

Arc Trail

Arc Trail deals 2 damage to any target and 1 damage to another target.

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Brotherhood's End

Choose one —
• Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.
• Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.

Cascade Bluffs

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

Castle Vantress

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

Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Counterspell

Crackling Drake

Flying
Crackling Drake's power is equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
When Crackling Drake enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Dack Fayden

+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.
−2: Gain control of target artifact.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Dragon's Rage Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, Dragon's Rage Channeler gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.

Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Create a 2/2 red Goblin Shaman creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token."
II — You may discard up to two cards. If you do, draw that many cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

{1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Fiery Islet: Draw a card.

Fire

Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

Fire // Ice

Flame Slash

Flame Slash deals 4 damage to target creature.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

Fury

Double strike
When Fury enters the battlefield, it deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers.
Evoke—Exile a red card from your hand.

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Gush

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Draw two cards.

Hullbreacher

Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Island

Izzet Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Jace, Telepath Unbound

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn.
−3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent mills five cards."

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

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.)

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Lose Focus

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Magmatic Sinkhole

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Magmatic Sinkhole deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Magus of the Moon

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mountain

Murktide Regent

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Flying
Murktide Regent enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each instant and sorcery card exiled with it.
Whenever an instant or sorcery card leaves your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Murktide Regent.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Whenever Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card.
Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Scalding Tarn

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

Serum Visions

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}

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.

Smoldering Egg

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a number of ember counters on Smoldering Egg equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. Then if Smoldering Egg has seven or more ember counters on it, remove them and transform Smoldering Egg.

Ashmouth Dragon

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Ashmouth Dragon deals 2 damage to any target.

Smoldering Egg // Ashmouth Dragon

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, 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.)

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Spell Snare

Spirebluff Canal

Spirebluff Canal enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Stifle

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

Sulfur Falls

Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters the battlefield with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

True-Name Nemesis

As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player.
True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player.

Unholy Heat

Unholy Heat deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Delirium — Unholy Heat deals 6 damage instead if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Vendilion Clique

Flash
Flying
When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.

Volcanic Island

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Wooded Foothills: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

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