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Commander

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Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
Vigilance
At the beginning of each end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, you draw a card.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Cat Warlock
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed (fic) 207

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cost reduction

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Bolas's Citadel
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost
less to cast.
Whenever one or more opponents lose life, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Do this only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Elder
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat (fic) 170
Helm of Awakening
Spells cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Helm of Awakening (dmr) 224
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Lyse Hext
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Noncreature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
As long as you've cast two or more noncreature spells this turn, Lyse Hext has double strike.
Legendary Creature - Human Monk Rebel
Lyse Hext (fic) 88
Stormscape Familiar
Flying
White spells and black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Bird
Stormscape Familiar (pls) 36

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Counters

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Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
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.
Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
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.
Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Logic Knot
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Logic Knot (tsr) 73
Mental Misstep
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.
Instant
Mental Misstep (nph) 38

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Drain

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Ancient Cellarspawn
Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 16
Enduring Tenacity
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95

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Draw

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Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Curiosity
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
Enchantment - Aura
Curiosity (plst) A25-52
Deep Analysis
Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—
, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Deep Analysis (tdc) 150
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Dig Through Time (dsc) 115
Faithful Mending
You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Faithful Mending (mid) 221
Helm of the Ghastlord
Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Helm of the Ghastlord (shm) 166
Necropotence
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Ophidian Eye
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
Enchantment - Aura
Ophidian Eye (plst) TSP-70
Tandem Lookout
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."
Creature - Human Scout
Tandem Lookout (plst) MM3-53
Transpose
Draw a card, then discard a card. You lose 1 life. If this spell was cast from your hand, create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Instant
Transpose (fic) 52
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (tdc) 169
Welcome the Dead
Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature tokens, where X is the number of cards that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library this turn.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Welcome the Dead (tdc) 30

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Beseech the Mirror
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 24
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Gush
You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Gush (mmq) 82
Lethal Scheme
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Instant
Lethal Scheme (fic) 277
Sickening Shoal
You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Instant - Arcane
Sickening Shoal (bok) 82
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (mb2) 187

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Gain+drain

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Papalymo Totolymo
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Papalymo Totolymo deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
,
, Sacrifice Papalymo Totolymo: Each opponent who lost life this turn sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Dwarf
Papalymo Totolymo (fic) 90

Gain+drain

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Infect

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Glistening Oil
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.
Enchantment - Aura
Glistening Oil (nph) 62

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Land

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Bloodstained Mire
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
Boseiju, Who Shelters All
Boseiju enters tapped.
, Pay 2 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (chk) 273
Dakmor Salvage
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Land
Dakmor Salvage (eoc) 156
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Glacial Chasm
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When this land enters, sacrifice a land.
Creatures you control can't attack.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (eoe) 254
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (ecl) 265
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tla) 283
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Meticulous Archive
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Island
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Mistrise Village
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
: Add
.
,
: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Land
Mistrise Village (tdm) 261
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (mkc) 277
Otawara, Soaring City
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tle) 298
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
Scalding Tarn
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Shadowy Backstreet
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Silent Clearing
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (eoe) 261
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Lifegain

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Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink.
,
: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

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Mill

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Darkblast
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Instant
Darkblast (plst) GK1-51
Golgari Thug
When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Human Warrior
Golgari Thug (rvr) 76
Stinkweed Imp
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Imp
Stinkweed Imp (plst) GK1-53

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Ramp\Ritual

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
Cabal Ritual
Add
.
Threshold — Add
instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
Chrome Mox
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mir) 116
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Lotus Bloom
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Lotus Bloom (tsr) 411
Lotus Petal
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Lotus Petal (mb2) 226
Mana Vault
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add
.
Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Mox Amber
: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.
Legendary Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Mox Opal
Metalcraft —
: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Legendary Artifact
Mox Opal (2xm) 275
Relic of Legends
: Add one mana of any color.
Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
Skyclave Relic
Kicker

Indestructible
When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Skyclave Relic (moc) 380
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (tdc) 331
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (tdc) 333
Tataru Taru
When Tataru Taru enters, you draw a card and target opponent may draw a card.
Scions' Secretary — Whenever an opponent draws a card, if it isn't that player's turn, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Advisor Dwarf
Tataru Taru (fic) 138

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Recursion

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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.)
Instant
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Snapcaster Mage
Flash
When this creature enters, 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.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Snapcaster Mage (plst) ISD-78
Tameshi, Reality Architect
Whenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Moonfolk
Tameshi, Reality Architect (neo) 82
Yawgmoth's Will
Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.
Sorcery
Yawgmoth's Will (usg) 171

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (tdc) 279
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Loran of the Third Path
Vigilance
When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
: You and target opponent each draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Loran of the Third Path (blc) 143
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Witch Enchanter
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

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Tokens

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Notorious Throng
Prowl
(You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)
Create X 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn. If this spell's prowl cost was paid, take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery Kindred - Rogue
Notorious Throng (znc) 33

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

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bracket 3 upgrade

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Call of the Ring
At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 79
Contagion
You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.
Instant
Contagion (all) 45
Coveted Jewel
When this artifact enters, draw three cards.
: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.
Artifact
Coveted Jewel (blc) 268
Dancer's Chakrams
Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has lifelink and "Other commanders you control get +2/+2 and have lifelink," and is a Performer in addition to its other types.
Krishna — Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Dancer's Chakrams (fic) 17
Dark Petition
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add
.
Sorcery
Dark Petition (ori) 90
Debt to the Deathless
Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (rvr) 364
Flare of Malice
You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 408
Force of Despair
If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.
Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
Gilded Lotus
: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Gilded Lotus (blc) 271
Kaya's Guile
Choose two —
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Exile all opponents' graveyards.
• Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.
• You gain 4 life.
Entwine
(Choose all if you pay the entwine cost.)
Instant
Kaya's Guile (mh1) 205
Lim-Dûl's Vault
Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.
Instant
Lim-Dûl's Vault (mb2) 87
Needlebite Trap
If an opponent gained life this turn, you may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.
Instant - Trap
Needlebite Trap (zen) 105
Nightmare Void
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Sorcery
Nightmare Void (ddj) 73
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Soul Spike
You may exile two black cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Soul Spike deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
Instant
Soul Spike (csp) 70
Spinning Darkness
You may exile the top three black cards of your graveyard rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Spinning Darkness deals 3 damage to target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.
Instant
Spinning Darkness (wth) 81
Syphon Life
Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
Sorcery
Syphon Life (mma) 100
The Darkness Crystal
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
,
: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96
The Wind Crystal
White spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
,
: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Artifact
The Wind Crystal (fin) 43
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j25) 71

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Bloodchief Ascension
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
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
.
Instant
Daze (plst) DD2-23
Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays
, where X is this creature's power.
Creature Artifact - Human Soldier
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Gitaxian Probe
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (mb2) 28
Insatiable Avarice
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+
— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.
Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Meathook Massacre II
When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Legendary Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 293
Mindbreak Trap
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.
Instant - Trap
Mindbreak Trap (mb2) 168
Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Phyresis
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Enchantment - Aura
Phyresis (plst) MBS-49
Ravenous Trap
If an opponent had three or more cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile target player's graveyard.
Instant - Trap
Ravenous Trap (plst) ZEN-109
Sensei's Divining Top
: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (mb2) 231
Solitary Confinement
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you discard a card.
Skip your draw step.
You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
Enchantment
Solitary Confinement (mh2) 265
Windfall
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

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Abolish
You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Abolish (plst) PCY-1
Afterlife from the Loam
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
For each player, choose up to one target creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're Zombies in addition to their other types.
Sorcery
Afterlife from the Loam (tdc) 25
Beseech the Queen
(
can be paid with any two mana or with
. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
Circle of Power
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Wizards you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn.
Sorcery
Circle of Power (fin) 92
Dead Drop
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Target player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Dead Drop (ktk) 67
Death Rattle
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Destroy target nongreen creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Death Rattle (mma) 78
Emet-Selch, Unsundered
Vigilance
Whenever Emet-Selch enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fourteen or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Emet-Selch.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Elder
Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld (fin) 483Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld (fin) 483
Final Showdown
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn.
+
— Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
+
— Destroy all creatures.
Instant
Final Showdown (otj) 11
Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff (ltr) 370
Murderous Cut
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Murderous Cut (plst) KTK-81
Norn's Annex
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays
for each of those creatures.
Artifact
Norn's Annex (cmm) 829
Nowhere to Run
Flash
When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.
Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
Oona's Grace
Target player draws a card.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
Instant
Oona's Grace (c19) 91
Press the Enemy
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Press the Enemy (ltr) 65
Raffine's Tower
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Swamp
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Sigil of Sleep
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.
Enchantment - Aura
Sigil of Sleep (ddi) 25
Slaughter
Buyback—Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Slaughter (exo) 74
Submerge
If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
Instant
Submerge (plst) NEM-48
Tendrils of Agony
Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (scg) 75
Unspeakable Symbol
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (plst) SCG-79

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Angelic Favor
If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Cast this spell only during combat.
Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Angelic Favor (plst) NEM-1
Authority of the Consuls
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (fdn) 137
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Basilisk Collar (dsc) 241
Batwing Brume
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if
was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if
was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if
was spent.)
Instant
Batwing Brume (plst) EVE-81
Black Sun's Zenith
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Blasphemous Edict
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Cephalid Coliseum
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cephalid Coliseum (tdc) 349
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Instant
Countersquall (plst) DDH-59
Demolition Field
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: 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.
Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Drown in the Loch
Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Farewell
Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.
Sorcery
Farewell (mkc) 64
Flare of Fortitude
You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.
Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 26
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Hall of Heliod's Generosity
: Add
.
,
: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (dsc) 283
Island Sanctuary
If you would draw a card during your draw step, instead you may skip that draw. If you do, until your next turn, you can't be attacked except by creatures with flying and/or islandwalk.
Enchantment
Island Sanctuary (5ed) 39
Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (2x2) 237
Misdirection
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
Instant
Misdirection (plst) DDT-15
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Psionic Blast
Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.
Instant
Psionic Blast (tsb) 30
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
Restore the Peace
Return each creature that dealt damage this turn to its owner's hand.
Instant
Restore the Peace (dgm) 97
Risky Shortcut
Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Risky Shortcut (dft) 103
Robe of Stars
Equipped creature gets +0/+3.
Astral Projection —
: Equipped creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Robe of Stars (afc) 11
Shadowspear
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236
Spellweaver Volute
Enchant instant card in a graveyard
Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach this Aura to another instant card in a graveyard.
Enchantment - Aura
Spellweaver Volute (plst) FUT-59
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tdc) 398
Tasigur's Cruelty
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Each opponent discards two cards.
Sorcery
Tasigur's Cruelty (frf) 88
Teferi, Time Raveler
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi
Teferi, Time Raveler (rvr) 232
Temporal Trespass
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.
Sorcery
Temporal Trespass (acr) 86
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

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