Test of Talents

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Uvilda, Dean of Perfection

{T}: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three hone counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a hone counter from it" and "When the last hone counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it. It costs {4} less to cast this way."

Nassari, Dean of Expression

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on Nassari, Dean of Expression.

Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression

Ingenious Mastery

You may pay {2}{U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{U} cost was paid, you draw three cards, then an opponent creates two Treasure tokens and they scry 2. If that cost wasn't paid, you draw X cards.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Reinterpret

Counter target spell. You may cast a spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. If that spell's mana value is 5 or greater, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. If that spell's mana value is 10 or greater, Zaffai, Thunder Conductor deals 10 damage to an opponent chosen at random.

Island

Practical Research

Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.

Prismari Apprentice

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Prismari Apprentice can't be blocked this turn. If that spell has mana value 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Prismari Apprentice.

Oggyar Battle-Seer

Storm-Kiln Artist

Storm-Kiln Artist gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Elemental Summoning

Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Elemental Expressionist

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, it gains "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else" and "When this creature is put into exile, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token." (Each instance of that ability triggers separately.)

Culmination of Studies

Exile the top X cards of your library. For each land card exiled this way, create a Treasure token. For each blue card exiled this way, draw a card. For each red card exiled this way, Culmination of Studies deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Prismari Pledgemage

Defender
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Prismari Pledgemage can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Prismari Campus

Prismari Campus enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Twinscroll Shaman

Spell Satchel

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on Spell Satchel.
{T}, Remove a book counter from Spell Satchel: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Remove three book counters from Spell Satchel: Draw a card.

Rowan, Scholar of Sparks

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
+1: Rowan, Scholar of Sparks deals 1 damage to each opponent. If you've drawn three or more cards this turn, she deals 3 damage to each opponent instead.
−4: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy."

Will, Scholar of Frost

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
+1: Up to one target creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until your next turn.
−3: Draw two cards.
−7: Exile up to five target permanents. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // Will, Scholar of Frost

Elemental Masterpiece

Create two 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature tokens.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Elemental Masterpiece: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Explosive Welcome

Explosive Welcome deals 5 damage to any target and 3 damage to any other target. Add {R}{R}{R}.

Creative Outburst

Creative Outburst deals 5 damage to any target. Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Creative Outburst: Create a Treasure token.

Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Maelstrom Muse

Flying
Whenever Maelstrom Muse attacks, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is Maelstrom Muse's power as this ability resolves.

Magma Opus

Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Magma Opus: Create a Treasure token.

Pop Quiz

Draw a card.
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.)

Reject

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell unless its controller pays {3}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Sudden Breakthrough

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Waterfall Aerialist

Flying
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Mountain

Mascot Exhibition

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

First Day of Class

Whenever a creature you control enters this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste until end of turn.
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.)

Prismari Command

Choose two —
• Prismari Command deals 2 damage to any target.
• Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.
• Target player creates a Treasure token.
• Destroy target artifact.

Frostboil Snarl

As Frostboil Snarl enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Frostboil Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Teach by Example

({U/R} can be paid with either {U} or {R}.)
When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Torrent Sculptor

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
When Torrent Sculptor enters, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Torrent Sculptor equal to half that card's mana value, rounded up.

Flamethrower Sonata

Discard a card, then draw a card. When you discard an instant or sorcery card this way, Flamethrower Sonata deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Torrent Sculptor // Flamethrower Sonata

The Biblioplex

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.

Resculpt

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

Rootha, Mercurial Artist

{2}, Return Rootha, Mercurial Artist to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Spectacle Mage

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast.

Start from Scratch

Choose one —
• Start from Scratch deals 1 damage to any target.
• Destroy target artifact.

Snow Day

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Igneous Inspiration

Igneous Inspiration deals 3 damage to any target.
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.)

Pigment Storm

Pigment Storm deals 5 damage to target creature. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Mentor's Guidance

When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard.
Scry 1, then draw a card.

Mascot Interception

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature token.
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Grinning Ignus

{R}, Return Grinning Ignus to its owner's hand: Add {C}{C}{R}. Activate only as a sorcery.

Archway Commons

Archway Commons enters tapped.
When Archway Commons enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Letter of Acceptance

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Letter of Acceptance: Draw a card.

Sol Ring

Soothsayer Adept

{1}{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Mercurial Transformation

Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes your choice of a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1 or a blue Octopus creature with base power and toughness 4/4.

Frost Trickster

Flying
When Frost Trickster enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Multiple Choice

If X is 1, scry 1, then draw a card.
If X is 2, you may choose a player. They return a creature they control to its owner's hand.
If X is 3, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
If X is 4 or more, do all of the above.

Eroded Canyon

Eroded Canyon enters tapped.
When Eroded Canyon enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Efreet Flamepainter

Double strike
Whenever Efreet Flamepainter deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Draconic Intervention

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard.
Draconic Intervention deals X damage to each non-Dragon creature, where X is the exiled card's mana value. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Exile Draconic Intervention.

Dream Strix

Flying
When Dream Strix becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it.
When Dream Strix 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.)

Command Tower

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

Izzet Guildgate

Izzet Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Ferrous Lake

Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{R}.

Highland Lake

Highland Lake enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Study Hall

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Reliquary Tower

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

Mirage Mesa

Mirage Mesa enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Molten Tributary

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Molten Tributary enters tapped.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Swiftwater Cliffs

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Sky Diamond

Izzet Signet

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Firemind's Foresight

Search your library for an instant card with mana value 3, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then repeat this process for instant cards with mana values 2 and 1. Then shuffle.

Alpha Brawl

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to each other creature that player controls, then each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Arcane Melee

Instant and sorcery spells cost {2} less to cast.

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.

Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Goblin Electromancer

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

Divination

Arc Lightning

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

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.

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

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