Elite Spellbinder

Flying
When Elite Spellbinder enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

Day of Judgment

Defend the Campus

Choose one —
• Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Defiant Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Shadrix Silverquill

Flying, double strike
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may choose two. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target player creates a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target player puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature they control.

Divine Gambit

Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment an opponent controls. That player may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Revitalize

Detention Vortex

Enchant nonland permanent
Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
{3}: Destroy Detention Vortex. Only your opponents may activate this ability and only as a sorcery.

Stonebinder's Familiar

Whenever one or more cards are put into exile during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Stonebinder's Familiar. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Gift of Estates

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Thunderous Orator

Vigilance
Whenever Thunderous Orator attacks, it gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, indestructible, lifelink, menace, and trample.

Pillardrop Rescuer

Flying
When Pillardrop Rescuer enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Show of Confidence

When you cast this spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains vigilance until end of turn.

Ageless Guardian

Beaming Defiance

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Study Break

Tap up to two target creatures.
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.)

Eager First-Year

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Eager First-Year gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Stonerise Spirit

Flying
{4}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Splicer's Skill

Create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.
Splice onto instant or sorcery {3}{W} (As you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Mavinda, Students' Advocate

Flying
{0}: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell doesn't target a creature you control, it costs {8} more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)

Combat Professor

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains vigilance until end of turn.

Secret Rendezvous

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Bloodied Ghost

Flying
Bloodied Ghost enters with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Expel

Pilgrim of the Ages

When Pilgrim of the Ages enters, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{6}: Return Pilgrim of the Ages from your graveyard to your hand.

Loyal Unicorn

Vigilance
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn. Other creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Grind

Put a -1/-1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.

Dust

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Exile any number of target creatures that have -1/-1 counters on them.

Grind // Dust

Silverquill Silencer

As Silverquill Silencer enters, choose a nonland card name.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell with the chosen name, they lose 3 life and you draw a card.

Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Vanishing Verse

Humiliate

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

Killian, Ink Duelist

Lifelink
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Spells you cast that target a creature cost {2} less to cast.

Shadewing Laureate

Flying
Whenever another creature you control with flying dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Inkling Summoning

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Academic Probation

Choose one —
• Choose a nonland card name. Opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name until your next turn.
• Choose target nonland permanent. Until your next turn, it can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Silverquill Pledgemage

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Silverquill Pledgemage gains your choice of flying or lifelink until end of turn.

Dramatic Finale

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Reduce to Memory

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

Hunt for Specimens

Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
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.)

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Closing Statement

This spell costs {2} less to cast during your end step.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker you don't control. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.

Owlin Shieldmage

Flying
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)

Rise of Extus

Exile target creature. Exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard.
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.)

Dark Ritual

Eyetwitch

Flying
When Eyetwitch dies, 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.)

Unwilling Ingredient

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{2}{B}, Exile Unwilling Ingredient from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Professor's Warning

Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Confront the Past

Choose one —
• Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

Lash of Malice

Target creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

Essence Infusion

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

Flunk

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is 7 minus the number of cards in that creature's controller's hand.

Eliminate

Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Go Blank

Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.

Poet's Quill

When Poet's Quill enters, 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.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip {1}{B}

Agonizing Remorse

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it or a card from their graveyard. Exile that card. You lose 1 life.

Arrogant Poet

Whenever Arrogant Poet attacks, you may pay 2 life. If you do, it gains flying until end of turn.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Necrotic Fumes

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Brackish Trudge

Brackish Trudge enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return Brackish Trudge from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you gained life this turn.

Umbral Juke

Choose one —
• Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
• Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Mage Hunters' Onslaught

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Whenever a creature blocks this turn, its controller loses 1 life.

Leech Fanatic

During your turn, Leech Fanatic has lifelink.

Callous Bloodmage

When Callous Bloodmage enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.

Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Novice Dissector

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Promising Duskmage

When Promising Duskmage dies, if it had a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card.

Specter of the Fens

Flying
{5}{B}: Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Tenured Inkcaster

When Tenured Inkcaster enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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