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Commander

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Codie, Vociferous Codex
You can't cast permanent spells.
,
: Add
. When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Construct Book
Codie, Vociferous Codex (stx) 357

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Anthem

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Blade Historian
Attacking creatures you control have double strike.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blade Historian (stx) 165

Anthem

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Artifact

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Diary of Dreams
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a page counter on this artifact.
,
: Draw a card. This ability costs
less to activate for each page counter on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Diary of Dreams (sos) 248
Staff of the Letter Magus
As this artifact enters, choose a consonant other than N, R, S, or T.
Whenever a player casts a spell, you gain 1 life for each time the chosen letter appears in that spell's name.
Artifact
Staff of the Letter Magus (ust) 159

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Bounce

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Biblioplex Kraken
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Kraken
Biblioplex Kraken (j22) 10
Rescue
Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Instant
Rescue (dom) 63
Words of Wind
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand instead.
Enchantment
Words of Wind (ons) 122

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Burn

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Goblin Game
Each player hides at least one item, then all players reveal them simultaneously. Each player loses life equal to the number of items they revealed. The player who revealed the fewest items then loses half their life, rounded up. If two or more players are tied for fewest, each loses half their life, rounded up.
Sorcery
Goblin Game (pls) 61
Mindsparker
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Whenever an opponent casts a white or blue instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Creature - Elemental
Mindsparker (fdn) 628
Price of Knowledge
Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this enchantment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
Enchantment
Price of Knowledge (c13) 89

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Copy

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Replication Technique
Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.)
Create a token that's a copy of target permanent you control.
Sorcery
Replication Technique (soc) 200
Virtue of Knowledge
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Enchantment
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions (woe) 76
Volo, Guide to Monsters
Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

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Counters

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Barbara Wright
History Teacher — Sagas you control have read ahead. (As a Saga enters, choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Skipped chapters don't trigger.)
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Barbara Wright (who) 14
Erudite Wizard
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Erudite Wizard (fdn) 37
Flash Counter
Counter target instant spell.
Instant
Flash Counter (8ed) 78
Icatian Moneychanger
This creature enters with three credit counters on it.
When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to you.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on this creature.
Sacrifice this creature: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.
Creature - Human
Icatian Moneychanger (fem) 10b
Lat-Nam Adept
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Lat-Nam Adept (bro) 56
Miscast
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Miscast (m21) 57
Storyweave
Choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
• Put two lore counters on target Saga you control. The next time one or more enchantment creatures you control enter this turn, each enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Instant
Storyweave (neo) 209

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Creature

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Academy Researchers
When this creature enters, you may put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield attached to this creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Academy Researchers (10e) 63
Augusta, Order Returned
Flying, vigilance
Whenever Augusta attacks, each player exiles a card from their graveyard. When one or more nonland cards are exiled this way, put that many +1/+1 counters on target attacking creature.
Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor
Augusta, Order Returned (soc) 11
Biblioplex Tomekeeper
When this creature enters, choose up to one —
• Target creature becomes prepared. (Only creatures with prepare spells can become prepared.)
• Target creature becomes unprepared.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Biblioplex Tomekeeper (sos) 247
Blazing Firesinger
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Dwarf Bard
Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song (sos) 109
Burrog Banemaker
Deathtouch
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Frog Warlock
Burrog Banemaker (sos) 75
Eternal Student
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying.
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Eternal Student (sos) 82
Fleeting Image
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Illusion
Fleeting Image (ulg) 31
Frazzled Editor
Protection from wordy (Something is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)
Creature - Human Bureaucrat
Frazzled Editor (unh) 77
Grandmother Sengir
,
: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Grandmother Sengir (hml) 50
Miracle Worker
: Destroy target Aura attached to a creature you control.
Creature - Human Cleric
Miracle Worker (drk) 13
Novellamental
Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
Creature - Elemental
Novellamental (ust) 41a
Ogre Savant
When this creature enters, if
was spent to cast it, return target creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wizard Ogre
Ogre Savant (ddj) 9
Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental
Art rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, it gets +2/+2 for each creature in the blocker's art beyond the first.)
Creature - Elemental
Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental (unh) 107
Page, Loose Leaf
: Add
.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Page, Loose Leaf: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an instant or sorcery card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Construct
Page, Loose Leaf (sos) 250
Phyrexian Librarian
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library and balance it on your body.
When a balanced card falls or touches another balanced card, sacrifice this creature.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Phyrexian Librarian (unh) 62
Skullknocker Ogre
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random. If the player does, they draw a card.
Creature - Ogre
Skullknocker Ogre (eld) 142
Spellbook Seeker
Flying
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Wizard Bird
Spellbook Seeker // Careful Study (sos) 68
Stet, Draconic Proofreader
Flying
Whenever Stet attacks, you may exile a card from your graveyard. When you do, Stet deals 4 damage to any target whose name begins with the same letter as the exiled card.
: Delete the first letter of target permanent or player's name until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Bureaucrat
Stet, Draconic Proofreader (und) 57
Textbook Tabulator
Increment (Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana you spent is greater than this creature's power or toughness, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
When this creature enters, 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.)
Creature - Wizard Frog
Textbook Tabulator (sos) 70
Tolarian Scholar
Creature - Human Wizard
Tolarian Scholar (m19) 80
Tome Shredder
Haste
, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Wolf
Tome Shredder (stx) 117

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Discard

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Discordant Dirge
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment. That player discards those cards.
Enchantment
Discordant Dirge (usg) 131
Insidious Bookworms
When this creature dies, you may pay
. If you do, target player discards a card at random.
Creature - Worm
Insidious Bookworms (all) 51a
Kitchen Imp
Flying, haste
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Imp
Kitchen Imp (mh2) 343
Nicol Bolas
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay
.
Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Nicol Bolas (tsb) 98
Ravenous Rats
When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.
Creature - Rat
Ravenous Rats (ddj) 49
The Underworld Cookbook
, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Artifact - Book
The Underworld Cookbook (mh2) 240
Vessel of Malignity
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Target opponent exiles two cards from their hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
Enchantment
Vessel of Malignity (soi) 144
Words of Waste
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each opponent discards a card instead.
Enchantment
Words of Waste (ons) 182

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Draw

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Academic Dispute
Target creature blocks this turn if able. You may have it gain reach 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.)
Instant
Academic Dispute (stx) 91
Academy Loremaster
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost
more to cast.
Creature - Human Wizard
Academy Loremaster (dmu) 40
Academy Loremaster
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost
more to cast.
Creature - Human Wizard
Academy Loremaster (dmu) 40
Accumulate Wisdom
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Put each of those cards into your hand instead if there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard.
Instant - Lesson
Accumulate Wisdom (tla) 44
Ad Nauseam
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Instant
Ad Nauseam (soa) 25
Aether Channeler
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
• Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Aether Channeler (dmu) 42
Aether Theorist
When this creature enters, you get
(three energy counters).
, Pay
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Rogue Vedalken
Aether Theorist (kld) 37
Alaundo the Seer
: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand and put a number of time counters on it equal to its mana value. It gains "When the last time counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you cast a creature spell this way, it gains haste until end of turn." Then remove a time counter from each other card you own in exile.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Alaundo the Seer (clb) 264
Ancestral Anger
Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ancestral Anger (sos) 106
Ancestral Knowledge
Cumulative upkeep
(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 enchantment enters, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.
Enchantment
Ancestral Knowledge (wth) 32
Ancestral Memories
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Ancestral Memories (por) 40
Ancient Craving
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ancient Craving (voc) 117
Arcane Encyclopedia
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Arcane Encyclopedia (clb) 297
Arcane Encyclopedia
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Arcane Encyclopedia (clb) 297
Arcane Endeavor
Roll two d8 and choose one result. Draw cards equal to that result. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the other result from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Arcane Endeavor (afc) 14
Arcane Epiphany
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Draw three cards.
Instant
Arcane Epiphany (fdn) 29
Arcane Investigator
Search the Room —
: Roll a d20.
1—9 | Draw a card.
10—20 | Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Creature - Wizard Elf
Arcane Investigator (afr) 46
Archive Dragon
Flying
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
When this creature enters, scry 2.
Creature - Wizard Dragon
Archive Dragon (woe) 41
Archivist
: Draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archivist (9ed) 60
Archivist of Gondor
When your commander deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card.
Creature - Human Advisor
Archivist of Gondor (ltc) 18
Archivist of Oghma
Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Halfling
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Artificer's Assistant
Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Bird
Artificer's Assistant (dom) 44
Audacious Reshapers
, Sacrifice an artifact: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an artifact card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This creature deals damage to you equal to the number of cards revealed this way.
Creature - Human Artificer
Audacious Reshapers (c21) 47
Autograph Book
This artifact enters with a page counter on it for each person who has signed it.
,
, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Autograph Book (unf) 183
Automatic Librarian
When this creature enters, 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.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Automatic Librarian (dmu) 229
Barrin's Codex
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on this artifact.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Barrin's Codex (usg) 286
Barrin's Codex
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on this artifact.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Barrin's Codex (usg) 286
Book Devourer
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.
Creature - Beast
Book Devourer (grn) 93
Book of Rass
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Book of Rass (chr) 95
Bookwurm
Trample
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card.
: Put this card from your graveyard into your library third from the top.
Creature - Wurm
Bookwurm (stx) 123
Brilliant Plan
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Brilliant Plan (gs1) 17
Browse
: Look at the top five cards of your library, put one of them into your hand, and exile the rest.
Enchantment
Browse (6ed) 59
Careful Study
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Sorcery
Careful Study (ody) 70
Catalog
Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Catalog (8ed) 65
Cephalid Sage
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature has "When this creature enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards."
Creature - Octopus
Cephalid Sage (ema) 41
Chart a Course
Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.
Sorcery
Chart a Course (fdn) 586
Chulane, Teller of Tales
Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
,
: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Druid
Chulane, Teller of Tales (mkc) 202
Combat Research
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward
. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Enchantment - Aura
Combat Research (dmu) 44
Compulsive Research
Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.
Sorcery
Compulsive Research (tdc) 147
Conspiracy Theorist
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay
and discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever you discard one or more nonland cards, you may exile one of them from your graveyard. If you do, you may cast it this turn.
Creature - Human Shaman
Conspiracy Theorist (soc) 240
Contact Other Plane
Roll a d20.
1—9 | Draw two cards.
10—19 | Scry 2, then draw two cards.
20 | Scry 3, then draw three cards.
Instant
Contact Other Plane (clb) 62
Crushing Disappointment
Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.
Instant
Crushing Disappointment (stx) 68
Dark Tutelage
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Demonic Lore
When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 2 life for each card in your hand.
Enchantment
Demonic Lore (cmr) 118
Dismissive Pyromancer
,
, Discard a card: Draw a card.
,
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 4 damage to target creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Dismissive Pyromancer (m19) 136
Emmessi Tome
,
: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Artifact - Book
Emmessi Tome (ema) 221
Faerie Miscreant
Flying
When this creature enters, if you control another creature named Faerie Miscreant, draw a card.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Faerie Miscreant (m20) 58
Faithless Looting
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Faithless Looting (soc) 244
Flash of Insight
Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Flashback—
, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)
Instant
Flash of Insight (jud) 40
Folio of Fancies
Players have no maximum hand size.
,
: Each player draws X cards.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Artifact - Book
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
Fool's Tome
,
: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.
Artifact - Book
Fool's Tome (tmp) 289
Forecasting Fortune Teller
When this creature enters, create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Creature - Human Advisor Ally
Forecasting Fortune Teller (tla) 51
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Geist of the Archives
Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Spirit
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Geth's Grimoire
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Geth's Grimoire (dst) 123
Goblin Lore
Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.
Sorcery
Goblin Lore (jmp) 328
Grim Haruspex
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Grim Haruspex (spg) 152
Hapless Researcher
Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Hapless Researcher (jud) 42
Hard Cover
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has "
: Draw a card, then discard a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Hard Cover (m20) 63
Heirloom Epic
,
: Draw a card. For each mana in this ability's activation cost, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay that mana. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact - Book
Heirloom Epic (blb) 246
Hypothesizzle
Draw two cards. Then you may discard a nonland card. When you do, Hypothesizzle deals 4 damage to target creature.
Instant
Hypothesizzle (otp) 48
Idle Thoughts
: Draw a card if you have no cards in hand.
Enchantment
Idle Thoughts (eve) 23
Illuminated Folio
,
, Reveal two cards from your hand that share a color: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Illuminated Folio (shm) 254
Index
Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Sorcery
Index (m13) 55
Into the Story
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.
Instant
Into the Story (eld) 50
Investigator's Journal
This artifact enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls.
,
, Remove a suspect counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact - Clue Book
Investigator's Journal (cmm) 956
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
+1: Scry 1, then draw a card.
−2: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets (inr) 70
Jace's Archivist
,
: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Creature - Wizard Vedalken
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
Jalum Tome
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Artifact - Book
Jalum Tome (dmr) 226
Jayemdae Tome
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Jayemdae Tome (ori) 231
Jodah's Codex
Domain —
,
: Draw a card. This ability costs
less to activate for each basic land type among lands you control.
Artifact - Book
Jodah's Codex (dmu) 233
Keen Duelist
At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Keen Duelist (sld) 828
Kyren Archive
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile the top card of your library face down.
, Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Put all cards exiled with this artifact into their owner's hand.
Artifact - Book
Kyren Archive (mmq) 302
Laquatus's Creativity
Target player draws cards equal to the number of cards in their hand, then discards that many cards.
Sorcery
Laquatus's Creativity (ody) 88
Ledger Shredder
Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Bird Advisor
Ledger Shredder (spg) 55
Library of Lat-Nam
An opponent chooses one —
• You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
• You search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Library of Lat-Nam (6ed) 78
Library of Leng
You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
Artifact
Library of Leng (5ed) 387
Living Lectern
, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card. Create a Sorcerer Role token attached to up to one other target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")
Creature Artifact - Construct
Living Lectern (woe) 59
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards.
You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire (dsk) 64
Mastermind Plum
Whenever Mastermind Plum attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If an artifact card was exiled this way, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Mastermind Plum (clu) 3
Matoya, Archon Elder
Whenever you scry or surveil, draw a card. (Draw after you scry or surveil.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Matoya, Archon Elder (fin) 62
Mazemind Tome
, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
,
, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card.
When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.
Artifact - Book
Mazemind Tome (fdn) 676
Mercadian Atlas
At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, you may draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Mercadian Atlas (mmq) 305
Mild-Mannered Librarian
: This creature becomes a Werewolf. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and you draw a card. Activate only once.
Creature - Human
Mild-Mannered Librarian (fdn) 228
Mishra's Research Desk
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Unearth
(
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Artifact
Mishra's Research Desk (bro) 162
My First Tome
,
: Say the flavor text on a card in your hand. Target opponent guesses that card's name. You may reveal that card. If you do and they guessed wrong, you draw a card.
Artifact - Book
My First Tome (unh) 125
Mysterious Tome
,
: Draw a card. Transform this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle (mid) 63Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle (mid) 63
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 420
Oath of Lim-Dûl
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, sacrifice a permanent other than this enchantment unless you discard a card. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.)
: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Oath of Lim-Dûl (ice) 156
Oblivious Bookworm
At the beginning of your end step, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card unless a permanent entered the battlefield face down under your control this turn or you turned a permanent face up this turn.
Creature - Human Wizard
Oblivious Bookworm (dsk) 225
Obsessive Search
Draw a card.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Obsessive Search (dmr) 61
Occult Epiphany
Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card type among cards discarded this way.
Instant
Occult Epiphany (voc) 14
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (otc) 104
Orcish Librarian
,
: Look at the top eight cards of your library. Exile four of them at random, then put the rest on top of your library in any order.
Creature - Orc
Orcish Librarian (tsb) 66
Otherworld Atlas
: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
: Each player draws a card for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Otherworld Atlas (avr) 219
Pedantic Learning
Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Enchantment
Pedantic Learning (ody) 90
Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (soc) 224
Pore Over the Pages
Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.
Sorcery
Pore Over the Pages (soi) 79
Practical Research
Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.
Instant
Practical Research (stx) 212
Priest of Ancient Lore
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Dwarf
Priest of Ancient Lore (clb) 704
Prosper, Tome-Bound
Deathtouch
Mystic Arcanum — At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Pact Boon — Whenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.
Legendary Creature - Warlock Tiefling
Prosper, Tome-Bound (afc) 2
Pull from Tomorrow
Draw X cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (soc) 116
Pursuit of Knowledge
If you would draw a card, you may put a study counter on this enchantment instead.
Remove three study counters from this enchantment, Sacrifice this enchantment: Draw seven cards.
Enchantment
Pursuit of Knowledge (sth) 10
Quick Study
Draw two cards.
Instant
Quick Study (fdn) 513
Resentful Revelation
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Resentful Revelation (fin) 114
Secrets of the Dead
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (sld) 7099
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Sorcerous Sight
Look at target opponent's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Sorcerous Sight (por) 68
Spellbook
You have no maximum hand size.
Artifact - Book
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
Storyteller Pixie
Flying
Whenever you cast an Adventure spell, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Faerie
Storyteller Pixie (woe) 313
Stroke of Genius
Target player draws X cards.
Instant
Stroke of Genius (soc) 203
Talas Researcher
: Draw a card. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Creature - Human Wizard Pirate
Talas Researcher (p02) 51
Tamiyo, Field Researcher
+1: Choose up to two target creatures. Until your next turn, whenever either of those creatures deals combat damage, you draw a card.
−2: Tap up to two target nonland permanents. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
−7: Draw three cards. You get an emblem with "You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs."
Legendary Planeswalker - Tamiyo
Tamiyo, Field Researcher (inr) 249
Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student
Flying
Whenever Tamiyo attacks, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
When you draw your third card in a turn, exile Tamiyo, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Moonfolk
Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (mh3) 242Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (mh3) 242
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."
Legendary Planeswalker - Tamiyo
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage (med) RA2
Tamiyo's Journal
At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Tamiyo's Journal (inr) 272
Tamiyo's Journal
At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Tamiyo's Journal (inr) 272
Tamiyo's Logbook
,
: Draw a card. This ability costs
less to activate for each other artifact you control.
Artifact - Book
Tamiyo's Logbook (one) 70
Tarrian's Journal
, Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
,
, Discard your hand: Transform Tarrian's Journal.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz (lci) 126Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz (lci) 126
The Second Doctor
Players have no maximum hand size.
How Civil of You — At the beginning of your end step, each player may draw a card. Each opponent who does can't attack you or permanents you control during their next turn.
Legendary Creature - Doctor Time Lord
The Second Doctor (who) 553
Think Twice
Draw a card.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Think Twice (tsr) 92
Thran Tome
,
: Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent chooses one of those cards. Put that card into your graveyard, then draw two cards.
Artifact - Book
Thran Tome (wth) 160
Thran Tome
,
: Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent chooses one of those cards. Put that card into your graveyard, then draw two cards.
Artifact - Book
Thran Tome (wth) 160
Tome of Legends
This artifact enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact.
,
, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Tome of Legends (mkc) 246
Tome of Legends
This artifact enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact.
,
, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Tome of Legends (fic) 369
Tome of the Guildpact
Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, draw a card.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact - Book
Tome of the Guildpact (rna) 242
Tome Raider
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Faerie
Tome Raider (eld) 68
Tomebound Lich
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Tomebound Lich (m20) 219
Trail of Evidence
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Enchantment
Trail of Evidence (soi) 93
Urza's Tome
,
: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you exile a historic card from your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Artifact - Book
Urza's Tome (dom) 235
Urza's Tome
,
: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you exile a historic card from your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Artifact - Book
Urza's Tome (dom) 235
Vivisection
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Vivisection (mid) 83
Volo, Itinerant Scholar
When Volo enters, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless Book artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for Volo's Journal."
,
: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal.
Choose a Background
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Volo, Itinerant Scholar (clb) 103
Voracious Tome-Skimmer
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Voracious Tome-Skimmer (ecl) 250
Worldly Counsel
Domain — Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Worldly Counsel (inv) 89

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Charm School
As this enchantment enters, choose a color and balance this enchantment on your head.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources of the chosen color.
When this enchantment falls off your head, sacrifice this enchantment.
Enchantment
Charm School (ugl) 1
Collective Inferno
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.)
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Double all damage that sources you control of the chosen type would deal.
Enchantment
Collective Inferno (ecl) 387
First Come, First Served
Each attacking or blocking creature with the lowest collector number among attacking or blocking creatures has first strike.
Enchantment
First Come, First Served (unh) 12
Forbidden Lore
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "
: Target creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn."
Enchantment - Aura
Forbidden Lore (ice) 236
Mine, Mine, Mine!
When this enchantment enters, each player puts their library into their hand.
Players have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for drawing from an empty library.
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library.
Enchantment
Mine, Mine, Mine! (ugl) 65

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Distracting Geist
Whenever this creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.
Disturb
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Creature - Spirit
Distracting Geist // Clever Distraction (vow) 9Distracting Geist // Clever Distraction (vow) 9
Faerie Vandal
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Faerie Vandal (znc) 26
Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar
Commanders you control have menace and deathtouch.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Cat Nightmare
Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar (cmr) 126
Hall Monitor
Haste
,
: Target creature can't block this turn.
Creature - Shaman Lizard
Hall Monitor (stx) 105
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (dsc) 95
Tome Anima
This creature can't be blocked as long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn.
Creature - Spirit
Tome Anima (m21) 81

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Animate Library
Enchant your library
Enchanted library is an artifact creature on the battlefield with power and toughness each equal to the number of cards in it. It's still a library.
If enchanted library would leave the battlefield, exile this Aura instead.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Library (ust) 26
Candlekeep Inspiration
Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.
Sorcery
Candlekeep Inspiration (clb) 59
Last Chance
Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.
Sorcery
Last Chance (dmr) 127
Rise and Shine
Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Rise and Shine (moc) 233
Time Stretch
Target player takes two extra turns after this one.
Sorcery
Time Stretch (dmr) 422

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Chase Inspiration
Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Chase Inspiration (sos) 41
Double Take
Choose another player. You draw two cards. At the beginning of the first upkeep in your next game with that player, you draw two cards.
Instant
Double Take (ugl) 23
Piety
Blocking creatures get +0/+3 until end of turn.
Instant
Piety (4ed) 41
Suspend Aggression
Exile target nonland permanent and the top card of your library. For each of those cards, its owner may play it until the end of their next turn.
Instant
Suspend Aggression (sos) 236

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Great Hall of the Biblioplex
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
: If this land isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/4 Wizard creature with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.
Land
Great Hall of the Biblioplex (sos) 257
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (jmp) 53
Library
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Land
Library (clu) 18
Study Hall
: Add
.
,
: 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.
Land
Study Hall (soc) 407
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sld) 1384
Tree of Tales
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (sld) 304

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Confessor
Whenever a player discards a card, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Confessor (ody) 15
Cram Session
You gain 4 life.
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.)
Sorcery
Cram Session (stx) 170
Cult Healer
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, this creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Creature - Human Doctor
Cult Healer (dsk) 2
Curse of Fool's Wisdom
Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Staff of the Mind Magus
Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Staff of the Mind Magus (m15) 234
Venser's Journal
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Artifact - Book
Venser's Journal (c21) 273
Words of Worship
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, you gain 5 life instead.
Enchantment
Words of Worship (ons) 61
Yawgmoth's Edict
Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Yawgmoth's Edict (7ed) 171

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Abhorrent Oculus
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard.
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Creature - Eye
Abhorrent Oculus (sch) 50
Archive Trap
If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
Instant - Trap
Archive Trap (zen) 41
Book Burning
Any player may have Book Burning deal 6 damage to them. If no one does, target player mills six cards.
Sorcery
Book Burning (jud) 80
Cephalid Vandal
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on this creature. Then mill a card for each shred counter on this creature.
Creature - Rogue Octopus
Cephalid Vandal (tor) 31
Chronic Flooding
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller mills three cards.
Enchantment - Aura
Chronic Flooding (rtr) 32
Codex Shredder
: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Curse of the Bloody Tome
Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Curse of the Bloody Tome (isd) 50
Increasing Confusion
Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Increasing Confusion (dka) 41
Ink Dissolver
Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with this creature, you may reveal it. If you do, each opponent mills three cards.
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Ink Dissolver (mor) 36
Minister of Inquiries
When this creature enters, you get
(two energy counters).
, Pay
: Target player mills three cards.
Creature - Advisor Vedalken
Minister of Inquiries (kld) 57
Morality Shift
Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.
Sorcery
Morality Shift (jud) 70
Mystic Redaction
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Enchantment
Mystic Redaction (mh2) 53
Overwhelmed Apprentice
When this creature enters, each opponent mills two cards. Then you 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.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Overwhelmed Apprentice (eld) 60
Persistent Petitioners
,
: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards.
A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners.
Creature - Human Advisor
Persistent Petitioners (sld) 596
Scrib Nibblers
: Exile the top card of target player's library. If it's a land card, you gain 1 life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may untap this creature.
Creature - Rat
Scrib Nibblers (wwk) 66
Tome Scour
Target player mills five cards.
Sorcery
Tome Scour (m14) 75
Tunnel Vision
Choose a card name. Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until a card with that name is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into their graveyard and puts the card with the chosen name on top of their library. Otherwise, the player shuffles.
Sorcery
Tunnel Vision (rav) 72

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Arcane Teachings
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Enchantment - Aura
Arcane Teachings (jud) 78
Hermetic Study
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Enchantment - Aura
Hermetic Study (usg) 78

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Apostle's Blessing
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Instant
Apostle's Blessing (mm2) 8
Benalish Missionary
,
: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target blocked creature this turn.
Creature - Human Cleric
Benalish Missionary (wth) 10
Dark Dabbling
Regenerate target creature. Draw a card. (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.
Instant
Dark Dabbling (uma) 91
Harsh Justice
Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
This turn, whenever an attacking creature deals combat damage to you, it deals that much damage to its controller.
Instant
Harsh Justice (por) 18
Living Conundrum
Hexproof
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, skip that draw instead.
As long as there are no cards in your library, this creature has base power and toughness 10/10 and has flying and vigilance.
Creature - Elemental
Living Conundrum (mkm) 63
Mother of Runes
: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Human Cleric
Mother of Runes (clb) 702

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Enthusiastic Study
Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample 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.)
Instant
Enthusiastic Study (stx) 99
Skilled Animator
When this creature enters, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
Creature - Human Artificer
Skilled Animator (cmr) 98

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Bard Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Legendary creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them.
: Level 2
Legendary spells you cast cost
less to cast. This effect reduces only the amount of colored mana you pay.
: Level 3
Whenever you cast a legendary spell, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn.
Enchantment - Class
Bard Class (afr) 217
Commodore Guff
At the beginning of your end step, put a loyalty counter on another target planeswalker you control.
+1: Create a 1/1 red Wizard creature token with "
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast a planeswalker spell."
−3: You draw X cards and Commodore Guff deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.
Commodore Guff can be your commander.
Legendary Planeswalker - Guff
Commodore Guff (cmm) 706
Creeping Peeper
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an enchantment spell, unlock a door, or turn a permanent face up.
Creature - Eye
Creeping Peeper (dsk) 46
Curious Homunculus
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform this creature.
Creature - Homunculus
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (itp) 19
Endless Horizons
When this enchantment enters, search your library for any number of Plains cards, exile them, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a card you own exiled with this enchantment into your hand.
Enchantment
Endless Horizons (eve) 4
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (blc) 119
Five Hundred Year Diary
Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped.
: Add
for each Clue you control.
, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.
Legendary Artifact - Clue Book
Five Hundred Year Diary (who) 42
Jace's Sanctum
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.
Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
Magus of the Library
: Add
.
: Draw a card. Activate only if you have exactly seven cards in hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Library (plc) 134
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Monster Manual
,
: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Artifact - Book
Monster Manual // Zoological Study (clb) 242
Oracle of the Alpha
Flying
When Oracle of the Alpha enters the battlefield, conjure the Power Nine into your library, then shuffle.
Whenever Oracle of the Alpha attacks, scry 1.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Oracle of the Alpha (mb2) 259
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat
Menace
At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143
Sarevok's Tome
When this artifact enters, you take the initiative.
: Add
. If you have the initiative, add
instead.
,
: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.
Artifact - Book
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
Sky Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 337
Spell Satchel
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on this artifact.
, Remove a book counter from this artifact: Add
.
,
, Remove three book counters from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Spell Satchel (stx) 258
Summoner's Grimoire
Job select
Equipped creature is a Shaman in addition to its other types and has "Whenever this creature attacks, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If that card is an enchantment card, it enters tapped and attacking."
Abraxas — Equip
Artifact - Equipment Book
Summoner's Grimoire (fin) 205
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mkc) 241
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (ltc) 287
Unblinking Observer
: Add
. Spend this mana only to pay a disturb cost or cast an instant or sorcery spell.
Creature - Homunculus
Unblinking Observer (mid) 82
Watcher of the Spheres
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Watcher of the Spheres (m21) 227

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Anarchist
When this creature enters, you may return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Anarchist (9ed) 173
Archaeomancer
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archaeomancer (sld) 283
Biblioplex Assistant
Flying
When this creature enters, put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Creature Artifact - Gargoyle
Biblioplex Assistant (stx) 251
Dutiful Knowledge Seeker
Whenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature - Spirit Fox
Dutiful Knowledge Seeker (tle) 92
Eternal Taskmaster
This creature enters tapped.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie
Eternal Taskmaster (j25) 117
Forgotten Lore
Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay
. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Forgotten Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.
Sorcery
Forgotten Lore (ice) 237
Grimoire of the Dead
,
, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Grimoire of the Dead (c19) 213
Izzet Chronarch
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Izzet Chronarch (c17) 175
Krile Baldesion
Lifelink
Trace Aether — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may return target creature card with mana value equal to that spell's mana value from your graveyard to your hand. Do this only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Dwarf
Krile Baldesion (fic) 86
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)
Legendary Creature - Vampire Detective
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2
Mystic Retrieval
Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Mystic Retrieval (inr) 77
Phyrexian Grimoire
,
: Target opponent chooses one of the top two cards of your graveyard. Exile that card and put the other one into your hand.
Artifact - Book
Phyrexian Grimoire (tmp) 301
Revolutionist
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Revolutionist (mh2) 139
Shrouded Lore
Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay
. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.
Sorcery
Shrouded Lore (plc) 91
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 314
Tenacious Tomeseeker
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was bargained, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Knight
Tenacious Tomeseeker (woe) 74
Wizard's Spellbook
: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery.
1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy.
10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying
rather than paying its mana cost.
20 | Copy each card exiled with this artifact. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.
Artifact - Book
Wizard's Spellbook (afr) 82

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Agent of Treachery
When this creature 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.
Creature - Human Rogue
Agent of Treachery (m20) 43
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 311
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
As long as you've discarded a card this turn, you may pay
to cast this spell.
When Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar enters, you may search your library for a card named The Underworld Cookbook, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sacrifice two Foods: Target creature deals 6 damage to itself.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar (mh2) 186
Blasphemous Act
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (40k) 204
Bury in Books
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.
Instant
Bury in Books (stx) 39
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (sld) 2497
Disruptive Student
: Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Creature - Human Wizard
Disruptive Student (usg) 69
Enchantment Alteration
Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.
Instant
Enchantment Alteration (usg) 72
Guardian Naga
Vigilance
During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature.
Creature - Snake
Guardian Naga // Banishing Coils (clb) 23
Guff Rewrites History
For each player, choose target nonenchantment, nonland permanent that player controls. Those permanents' owners shuffle them into their libraries. Each player who controlled one of those permanents exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player may cast the nonland card they exiled without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Guff Rewrites History (cmm) 737
Memory Lapse
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.
Instant
Memory Lapse (sta) 16
Nettling Imp
: Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That creature attacks this turn if able. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step if it didn't attack this turn. Activate only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.
Creature - Imp
Nettling Imp (sum) 119
Punctuate
Punctuate deals damage to target creature equal to half the number of punctuation marks in that creature's text box. (The punctuation marks are ! ? , ; : - — ( ) / " " ' ' & .)
Instant
Punctuate (unh) 84
Rescind
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Rescind (usg) 92
Vanquish the Horde
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Destroy all creatures.
Sorcery
Vanquish the Horde (sld) 1353
Words of War
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target instead.
Enchantment
Words of War (ons) 244
You Find the Villains' Lair
Choose one —
• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.
• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Instant
You Find the Villains' Lair (afr) 84

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Daydream
Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Daydream (sos) 9
Eye Spy
Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into their graveyard.
Sorcery
Eye Spy (s99) 38
Mind Roots
Target player discards two cards. Put up to one land card discarded this way onto the battlefield tapped under your control.
Sorcery
Mind Roots (sos) 203
Tome Blast
Tome Blast deals 2 damage to any target.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Tome Blast (sos) 135

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Blind Obedience
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Blind Obedience (sld) 1030
Energy Flux
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay
."
Enchantment
Energy Flux (mmq) 78

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River Song's Diary
Imprint — Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell from their hand, exile it instead of putting it into a graveyard as it resolves.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more cards exiled with this artifact, choose one of them at random. You may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Artifact - Book
River Song's Diary (who) 182

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Book of Mazarbul
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
II — Amass Orcs 2.
III — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain menace until end of turn.
Enchantment - Saga
Book of Mazarbul (ltr) 116
Combat Calligrapher
Flying
Inklings can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.
Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying that's attacking that opponent.
Creature - Cleric Bird
Combat Calligrapher (soc) 141
Copy Catchers
Flying
Whenever you surveil, you may pay
. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Creature - Faerie
Copy Catchers (mkc) 20
Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII
As this artifact enters, choose white Citizen, blue Camarid, black Thrull, red Goblin, or green Saproling.
,
: Create a 1/1 creature token of the chosen color and type.
Artifact - Book
Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII (tsp) 263
Spellbook Vendor
Vigilance
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay
. When you do, create a Sorcerer Role token attached to target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")
Creature - Human Peasant
Spellbook Vendor (woe) 31
The Book of Exalted Deeds
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying.
,
, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Exalted Deeds (afr) 4
The Book of Vile Darkness
At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91
Words of Wilding
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, create a 2/2 green Bear creature token instead.
Enchantment
Words of Wilding (ons) 305
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 deals 10 damage to an opponent chosen at random.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Zaffai, Thunder Conductor (c21) 4

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Academy Rector
When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Cleric
Academy Rector (uds) 1
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sum) 105
Divining Witch
,
, Discard a card: Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
Creature - Human Spellshaper
Divining Witch (nem) 57
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
Gamble
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 433
Grim Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Infernal Tutor
Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Infernal Tutor (j20) 5
Insidious Dreams
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.
Instant
Insidious Dreams (tor) 66
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 (all) 107
Mangara's Tome
When this artifact enters, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put the top card of the exiled pile into its owner's hand.
Artifact - Book
Mangara's Tome (mir) 309
Micromancer
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 1, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Micromancer (fdn) 158
Mystical Tutor
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Mystical Tutor (6ed) 83
Spellseeker
When this creature 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.
Creature - Human Wizard
Spellseeker (cmm) 635
Tallowisp
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may search your library for an Aura card with enchant creature, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Spirit
Tallowisp (bok) 25
Waterlogged Teachings
Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261
Wild Research
: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle.
: Search your library for an instant card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle.
Enchantment
Wild Research (apc) 72

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45 pips - 37 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
183 pips - 150 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
61 pips - 50 cards
13 mana - 11 cards
53 pips - 43 cards
14 mana - 10 cards
24 pips - 20 cards
9 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
13 mana - 11 cards
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