Careful Study

Fierce Guardianship

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

Intuition

Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

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.")

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Cloak of Feathers

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Faerie Conclave

Faerie Conclave enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}: Faerie Conclave becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Gigadrowse

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.)
Tap target permanent.

Invasion of Segovia

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of Segovia enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 blue Kraken creature tokens with trample.

Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia

Noncreature spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a noncreature spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
At the beginning of your end step, untap up to four target creatures.

Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia

Ipnu Rivulet

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards.

Leap

Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards.
Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Mental Note

Mists of Lórien

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.)
Return target nonland permanent and each other nonland permanent with the same mana value as that permanent to their owners' hands.

Occult Epiphany

Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card type among cards discarded this way.

Ornithopter of Paradise

Gadwick, the Wizened

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

Cryptic Command

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

Blinkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Blinkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.
{1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Castle Vantress

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

Faerie Mastermind

Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
{3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Artful Dodge

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback {U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ray of Erasure

Target player mills a card.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Draw a card.

Silundi Vision

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Silundi Isle

Silundi Isle enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Spectral Deluge

Return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Foretell {1}{U}{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.)

Thirst for Discovery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever Looter il-Kor deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

Windrider Wizard

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Rhystic Study

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

You Come to a River

Choose one —
• Fight the Current — Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Find a Crossing — Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Peek

Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Merchant Scroll

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

Dream Twist

Target player mills three cards.
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.

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.

Thirst for Meaning

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card.

Mercurial Spelldancer

Mercurial Spelldancer can't be blocked.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Mercurial Spelldancer.
Whenever Mercurial Spelldancer deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadir Kraken and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

The Reality Chip

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When Thieving Skydiver enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.

Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Intrude on the Mind

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Create a 0/0 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying, then put a +1/+1 counter on it for each card put into your graveyard this way.

Murmuring Mystic

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

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.

Curse of the Swine

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

Sapphire Medallion

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

Duelist of the Mind

Flying, vigilance
Duelist of the Mind's power is equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: 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 any order.

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Swan Song

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

Unauthorized Exit

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Retraced Image

Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sea Gate, Reborn

As Sea Gate, Reborn enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Cephalid Constable

Whenever Cephalid Constable deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owner's hand.

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.")

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.

Archmage Emeritus

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

Quiet Speculation

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.

Updraft

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

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

Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Defy Gravity

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Flashback {U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Brainstorm

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

Consider

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

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Portent

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

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.

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

Flash
Flying
Whenever Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.

Ponder

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

Wavebreak Hippocamp

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

Rapid Hybridization

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

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Psionic Blast

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

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

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.)

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.)

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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.

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.

Island

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.
When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

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