Snow-Covered Island

Take the Fall

Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn. It gets -4/-0 until end of turn instead if you control an outlaw. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
Draw a card.

Sol Ring

Chilling Trap

Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn. If you control a Wizard, draw a card.

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.

Whim of Volrath

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Fleeting Distraction

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

Shadow Rift

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

Cerulean Wisps

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature.
Draw a card.

Dream's Grip

Choose one —
• Tap target permanent.
• Untap target permanent.
Entwine {1} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Retraction Helix

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

Rapid Hybridization

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

Twisted Image

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Retraced Image

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

Dizzy Spell

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Into the Flood Maw

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Pongify

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

Stream of Unconsciousness

Leap

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

Suspend

Exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Banishing Knack

Mystical Tutor

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

Alter Reality

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Artisan of Forms

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Artisan of Forms, you may have Artisan of Forms become a copy of target creature, except it has this ability.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Volatile Stormdrake

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities
When Volatile Stormdrake enters, exchange control of Volatile Stormdrake and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get {E}{E}{E}{E}, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of {E} equal to its mana value.

Gilded Drake

Flying
When Gilded Drake enters, exchange control of Gilded Drake and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice Gilded Drake. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Snap

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

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.")

Sapphire Medallion

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

Thought Vessel

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

Resculpt

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

Arcane Signet

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

Glamerdye

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Harbinger of the Seas

Spellseeker

When Spellseeker enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Vedalken Shackles

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Spectral Arcanist

Flying
When Spectral Arcanist enters, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of Spirits you control from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Archmage Emeritus

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

Jace, the Perfected Mind

Compleated ({U/P} can be paid with {U} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0.
−2: Target player mills three cards. Then if a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, you draw three cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
−X: Target player mills three times X cards.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When Mulldrifter enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Agent of Treachery

When Agent of Treachery enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters, 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.

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.

Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When Thought Monitor enters, draw two cards.

Tidespout Tyrant

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Energy Tap

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature's mana value.

Merchant Scroll

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

Twiddle

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Vesuvan Duplimancy

Whenever you cast a spell that targets only a single artifact or creature you control, create a token that's a copy of that artifact or creature, except it's not legendary.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Counterspell

Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent.
Counter target spell.

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.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Amphin Mutineer

When Amphin Mutineer enters, exile up to one target non-Salamander creature. That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token.
Encore {4}{U}{U} ({4}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Archaeomancer

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

Orvar, the All-Form

Changeling
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets one or more other permanents you control, create a token that's a copy of one of those permanents.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create a token that's a copy of target permanent.

Forger's Foundry

{T}: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 3 or less, you may exile that spell instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves.
{3}{U}{U}, {T}: You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled with Forger's Foundry without paying their mana costs. Activate only as a sorcery.

Repository Skaab

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

Synthesis Pod

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
{1}{U/P}, {T}, Exile a spell you control: Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card with mana value equal to 1 plus the exiled spell's mana value. Exile that card, then that player shuffles. You may cast that exiled card without paying its mana cost.

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