Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Volo, Itinerant Scholar

When Volo enters the battlefield, 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

Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
Hydroid Krasis enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Prowling Serpopard

This spell can't be countered.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Body of Research

Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards in your library.

Sharktocrab

{2}{G}{U}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Sharktocrab, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Tempest Hart

Trample
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Tempest Hart.

Scan the Clouds

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Tempest Hart // Scan the Clouds

Maraleaf Pixie

Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Spitting Image

Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Rimewood Falls

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Rimewood Falls enters the battlefield tapped.

Bounty of the Luxa

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all flood counters from Bounty of the Luxa. If no counters were removed this way, put a flood counter on Bounty of the Luxa and draw a card. Otherwise, add {C}{G}{U}.

Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2}
Channel — {2}{G}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Channel — {1}{U}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Breeding Pool

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

Restless Vinestalk

Restless Vinestalk enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, Restless Vinestalk becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Vinestalk attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Elusive Otter

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Creatures with power less than Elusive Otter's power can't block it.

Grove's Bounty

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
Tangled Islet enters the battlefield tapped.

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.)

Riptide Laboratory

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

Simic Signet

Skyrider Patrol

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay {G}{U}. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control, and that creature gains flying until end of turn.

Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Gruff Triplets

Trample
When Gruff Triplets enters the battlefield, if it isn't a token, create two tokens that are copies of it.
When Gruff Triplets dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to its power on each creature you control named Gruff Triplets.

Sweet-Gum Recluse

Flash
Cascade
Reach
When Sweet-Gum Recluse enters the battlefield, put three +1/+1 counters on each of any number of target creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.

Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch
When Hornet Queen enters the battlefield, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Soul of Zendikar

Reach
{3}{G}{G}: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
{3}{G}{G}, Exile Soul of Zendikar from your graveyard: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When Peregrine Drake enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands.

Juvenile Mist Dragon

Flying
Confounding Clouds — When Juvenile Mist Dragon enters the battlefield, for each opponent, tap up to one target creature that player controls. Each of those creatures doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Frost Titan

Whenever Frost Titan becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}.
Whenever Frost Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Slither Blade

Toxic Scorpion

Deathtouch
When Toxic Scorpion enters the battlefield, another target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Troublemaker Ouphe

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
When Troublemaker Ouphe enters the battlefield, if it was bargained, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Sea Hag

When Sea Hag enters the battlefield, creatures your opponents control get -4/-0 until end of turn.

Aquatic Ingress

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Sea Hag // Aquatic Ingress

Benthic Infiltrator

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.)
Benthic Infiltrator can't be blocked.

Escaped Shapeshifter

As long as an opponent controls a creature with flying not named Escaped Shapeshifter, Escaped Shapeshifter has flying. The same is true for first strike, trample, and protection from any color.

Sigiled Starfish

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Oneirophage

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Oneirophage.

Carefree Swinemaster

Whenever Carefree Swinemaster attacks, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, create a 2/2 green Boar creature token that's tapped and attacking.

Moat Piranhas

Daggerback Basilisk

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Hermitic Nautilus

Vigilance
{1}{U}: Hermitic Nautilus gets +3/-3 until end of turn.

Biblioplex Kraken

When Biblioplex Kraken enters the battlefield, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Whenever Biblioplex Kraken attacks, you may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, Biblioplex Kraken can't be blocked this turn.

Djinn of Wishes

Flying
Djinn of Wishes enters the battlefield with three wish counters on it.
{2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from Djinn of Wishes: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Pursued Whale

When Pursued Whale enters the battlefield, each opponent creates a 1/1 red Pirate creature token with "This creature can't block" and "Creatures you control attack each combat if able."
Spells your opponents cast that target Pursued Whale cost {3} more to cast.

Bayou Groff

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}.

Scurrid Colony

Reach
Scurrid Colony gets +2/+2 as long as you control eight or more lands.

Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample
When Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Crocanura

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Saiba Cryptomancer

Flash
Backup 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Hexproof

Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Bronze Walrus

When Bronze Walrus enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.)
Whenever a token enters the battlefield under your control, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Academy Wall

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Mordenkainen's Polymorph

Until end of turn, target creature becomes a Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 and gains flying. (It loses all other creature types.)

Downsize

Target creature you don't control gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Overload {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Curse of the Swine

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

Carnage Tyrant

This spell can't be countered.
Trample, hexproof

Coati Scavenger

Descend 4 — When Coati Scavenger enters the battlefield, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Rapid Hybridization

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

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Sudden Spinnerets

Target creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn. Put a reach counter on it. Untap it.

Twisted Image

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Ovinize

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1.

Ichthyomorphosis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Fish with base power and toughness 0/1.

Frogify

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest
As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Kasmina's Transmutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.

Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature with power 3 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Island

Forest

Aspect of Hydra

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
{2}{U}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
{4}{U}: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Virtue of Knowledge

If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Vantress Visions

Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions

Thornwood Falls

Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield tapped.
When Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Full Flowering

Populate X times. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control. Do this X times.)

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