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Commander

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Dina, Soul Steeper
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Druid Dryad
Dina, Soul Steeper (mul) 102
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Creature

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Bogwater Lumaret
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Spirit Frog
Bogwater Lumaret (sos) 177
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South Wind Avatar
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Avatar Spirit Snake
South Wind Avatar (tmt) 78
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Teacher's Pest
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton Pest
Teacher's Pest (sos) 238
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Drain

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Dogged Pursuit
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Dogged Pursuit (khm) 85
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Epicure of Blood
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Epicure of Blood (j25) 435
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Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
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Sinister Monolith
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Sinister Monolith (blb) 113
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Starscape Cleric
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
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Draw

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Ambition's Cost
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
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Diresight
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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.)
Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
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Foreboding Fruit
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sorcery
Foreboding Fruit (eld) 88
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Harmonize
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Harmonize (dsc) 182
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Mosswood Dreadknight
Trample
When this creature dies, you may cast it from your graveyard as an Adventure until the end of your next turn.
Creature - Human Knight
Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers (woe) 292
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Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
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Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
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Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
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Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
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Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
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Draw

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Instant

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Dissection Practice
Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Up to one target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Instant
Dissection Practice (sos) 79
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Land

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Adventurer's Inn
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Adventurer's Inn (fin) 271
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Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
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Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (eoc) 158
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Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (eoc) 159
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Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (eoe) 276
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Jungle Hollow
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jungle Hollow (tdm) 258
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Maestros Theater
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Maestros Theater (eoc) 167
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Obscura Storefront
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
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Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
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Riveteers Overlook
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Riveteers Overlook (eoc) 172
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Sapseep Forest
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.
Land - Forest
Sapseep Forest (c21) 313
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Swamp
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ecl) 271
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Landfall

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Eumidian Terrabotanist
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Druid Insect
Eumidian Terrabotanist (eoe) 180
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Jaddi Offshoot
Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Plant
Jaddi Offshoot (tdc) 260
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Kazandu Nectarpot
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Insect
Kazandu Nectarpot (j25) 679
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Retreat to Hagra
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Retreat to Hagra (c18) 116
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Retreat to Kazandu
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• You gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Retreat to Kazandu (j25) 707
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Lifegain

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Beledros Witherbloom
Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247
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Creeping Bloodsucker
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Creature - Vampire
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
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Deathgreeter
Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Shaman
Deathgreeter (plst) DDD-33
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Essence Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Essence Warden (ltc) 242
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Lifegift
Whenever a land enters, you may gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Lifegift (bok) 132
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Prosperous Innkeeper
When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Citizen Halfling
Prosperous Innkeeper (blc) 121
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Scavenging Ooze
: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Ooze
Scavenging Ooze (fdn) 232
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Social Climber
Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Druid
Social Climber (snc) 157
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Sun Droplet
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from this artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Sun Droplet (c21) 268
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Tablet of the Guilds
As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235
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Witherbloom Apprentice
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Druid
Witherbloom Apprentice (stx) 247
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Lifegain

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Protection

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Infuse with Vitality
Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
You gain 2 life.
Instant
Infuse with Vitality (stx) 194
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Revenge of Ravens
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207
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Tamiyo's Safekeeping
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
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Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
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Courser of Kruphix
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature Enchantment - Centaur
Courser of Kruphix (cmm) 888
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Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (m11) 168
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Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (mma) 151
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Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (brr) 43
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Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tdc) 265
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Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (tdc) 266
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Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
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Ramp

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Recursion

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Urborg Repossession
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life. If this spell was kicked, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Urborg Repossession (dmu) 114
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Veinwitch Coven
Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151
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Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152
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Recursion

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Removal

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Breathe Your Last
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.
Instant
Breathe Your Last (mh3) 82
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Culling Ritual
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add
or
for each permanent destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Culling Ritual (dsc) 85
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Essence Pulse
You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 39
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Haywire Mite
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Haywire Mite (dsc) 247
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Mortality Spear
This spell costs
less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
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Natural End
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.
Instant
Natural End (m20) 183
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Nightmare's Thirst
You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Instant
Nightmare's Thirst (m19) 111
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Parasitic Grasp
Cleave
(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Parasitic Grasp deals 3 damage to target [Human] creature. You gain 3 life.
Instant
Parasitic Grasp (vow) 123
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Pest Infestation
Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Sorcery
Pest Infestation (eoc) 103
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Tithing Blade
When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Craft with creature
(
, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Artifact
Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher (lci) 128Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher (lci) 128
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Removal

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Sorcery

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Grapple with Death
Destroy target artifact or creature. You gain 1 life.
Sorcery
Grapple with Death (sos) 192
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Oracle's Restoration
Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. You draw a card and gain 1 life.
Sorcery
Oracle's Restoration (sos) 156
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Sideboard

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (inr) 97
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Falkenrath Noble
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Noble
Falkenrath Noble (j25) 441
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Hex
Destroy six target creatures.
Sorcery
Hex (otc) 136
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Ill-Gotten Inheritance
At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.
Enchantment
Ill-Gotten Inheritance (rvr) 77
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Profane Memento
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Profane Memento (m15) 226
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Sanguine Syphoner
Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Sanguine Syphoner (fdn) 68
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Unearth
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
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