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.

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.)

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.")

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.

Bane's Contingency

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

Brainstorm

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

Case of the Ransacked Lab

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
To solve — You've cast four or more instant and sorcery spells this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

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.

Confounding Riddle

Choose one —
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Defabricate

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Disallow

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

Dissipate

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

Dissolve

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

Ertai's Scorn

This spell costs {U} less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.

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.

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

Merchant Scroll

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Misleading Signpost

Flash
When Misleading Signpost enters the battlefield during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.)
{T}: Add {U}.

Mocking Sprite

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

Murmuring Mystic

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

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.

Naiad of Hidden Coves

As long as it's not your turn, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Out of Air

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

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

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.

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Thought Vessel

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

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].

Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on Mindsplice Apparatus.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on Mindsplice Apparatus.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

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.

Negate

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Archmage Emeritus

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

Castle Vantress

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

Counterspell

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Dispel

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.

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.

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.

Island

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

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.)

Sol Ring

Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

Telepathy

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

Hour of Eternity

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Reenact the Crime

Exile target nonland card in a graveyard that was put there from anywhere this turn. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Quasiduplicate

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
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.)

See Double

This spell can't be copied.
Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both.
• Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant spell from your hand, it gains rebound. (Exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile without paying its mana cost.)
When Ojer Pakpatiq dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control with three time counters on it.

Temple of Cyclical Time

(Transforms from Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch.)
{T}: Add {U}. Remove a time counter from Temple of Cyclical Time.
{2}{U}, {T}: Transform Temple of Cyclical Time. Activate only if it has no time counters on it and only as a sorcery.

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time

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

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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.)

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Sapphire Medallion

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

Archaeomancer

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

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

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.

Palinchron

Flying
When Palinchron enters the battlefield, untap up to seven lands.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Palinchron to its owner's hand.

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When Torrential Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Lullmage Mentor

Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
Tap seven untapped Merfolk you control: Counter target spell.

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

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.

Fierce Guardianship

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

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.

Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Riptide Laboratory

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

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.

Radstorm

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Undead Alchemist

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player mills that many cards.
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their library, exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

Zombies you control have flying.
{U}, {T}, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Geralf, the Fleshwright

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token.
Whenever a Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

The Flood of Mars

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Water Always Wins — Whenever The Flood of Mars attacks, put a flood counter on another target creature or land. If it's a creature, it becomes a copy of The Flood of Mars. If it's a land, it becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

Poppet Stitcher

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more creature tokens, you may transform Poppet Stitcher.

Poppet Factory

Creature tokens you control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 3/3.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may transform Poppet Factory.

Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory

Repository Skaab

Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Repository Skaab exploits a creature, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Overcharged Amalgam

Flash
Flying
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Lazotep Plating

Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Curiosity Crafter

Flying
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Commence the Endgame

This spell can't be countered.
Draw two cards, then amass Zombies X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

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