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.

Counterspell

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Saw It Coming

Counter target spell.
Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Mental Misstep

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

Negate

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.

Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

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.

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}.

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.

Cryptic Command

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

Reverse the Polarity

Choose one —
• Counter all other spells.
• Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
• Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Out of Air

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a creature spell.
Counter target spell.

Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Guile

Guile can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
If a spell or ability you control would counter a spell, instead exile that spell and you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
When Guile is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

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.

Haughty Djinn

Flying
Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

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.

Malevolent Hermit

{U}, Sacrifice Malevolent Hermit: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Benevolent Geist

Flying
Noncreature spells you control can't be countered.
If Benevolent Geist would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist

Naiad of Hidden Coves

During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Mocking Sprite

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Island

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.)

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

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Gadwick, the Wizened

When Gadwick, the Wizened enters, draw X cards.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Curious Homunculus

{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform Curious Homunculus.

Voracious Reader

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader

Archaeomancer

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

Niblis of Frost

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

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

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Insidious Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• You may choose new targets for target spell.
• Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Change the Equation

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value 2 or less.
• Counter target red or green spell with mana value 6 or less.

Dismiss

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Minor Misstep

Counter target spell with mana value 1 or less.

Sol Ring

Sapphire Medallion

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

The Magic Mirror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

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.

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

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.

Cancel

Saruman's Trickery

Counter target spell.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Disciple of the Ring

{1}, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.
• Disciple of the Ring gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
• Tap target creature.
• Untap target creature.

Riptide Laboratory

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

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