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.

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.)

Stern Dismissal

Return target creature or enchantment an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Peek

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

Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards.

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

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.

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.

Clutch of Currents

Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Awaken 3—{4}{U} (If you cast this spell for {4}{U}, also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Snapback

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Tolarian Terror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Hard Evidence

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Sailors' Bane

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card you own in exile and in your graveyard that's an instant card, a sorcery card, or a card that has an Adventure.
Ward {4} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.)

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.)

Ghostform

Up to two target creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Cryptic Command

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

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

True-Name Nemesis

As True-Name Nemesis enters, choose a player.
True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player.

Tale's End

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

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.

Serum Visions

Stern Scolding

Counter target creature spell with power or toughness 2 or less.

Compelling Argument

Target player mills five cards.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Quench

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Island

Tome Scour

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.)

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.)

Contingency Plan

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Ponder

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

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Send to Sleep

Tap up to two target creatures.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

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.

Remove Soul

Merfolk Secretkeeper

Venture Deeper

Target player mills four cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper

Brainstorm

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

Careful Study

Razzle-Dazzler

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Razzle-Dazzler. It can't be blocked this turn.

Ideas Unbound

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Consider

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

Tolarian Winds

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

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.)

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Snap

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

Revolutionary Rebuff

Counter target nonartifact spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Essence Scatter

Chart a Course

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

Faerie Conclave

Faerie Conclave enters 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.

Cryptic Serpent

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Negate

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.)

Counterspell

Fading Hope

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If its mana value was 3 or less, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Picklock Prankster

Free the Fae

Mill four cards. Then put an instant, sorcery, or Faerie card from among the milled cards into your hand.

Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae

Winds of Rebuke

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

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

Dispel

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Disperse

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Vapor Snag

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

Cactus Preserve

Cactus Preserve enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
{3}: Until end of turn, Cactus Preserve becomes an X/X green Plant creature with reach, where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders. It's still a land.

Early Frost

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Soporific Springs

As Soporific Springs enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs

Pteramander

Flying
{7}{U}: Adapt 4. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Lose Focus

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.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

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.

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